Definitions for contact

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contact con·tact

Spelling: [kon-takt]

IPA: /ˈkɒn tækt/

Contact is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in contact (accnott).

Definitions for contact

noun

1. the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
2. immediate proximity or association.
3. an acquaintance, colleague, or relative through whom a person can gain access to information, favors, influential people, and the like.
4. Electricity. a junction of electric conductors, usually metal, that controls current flow, often completing or interrupting a circuit.
5. Geology. the interface, generally a planar surface, between strata that differ in lithology or age.
6. Medicine/Medical. a person who has lately been exposed to an infected person.
7. Sociology. a condition in which two or more individuals or groups are placed in communication with each other. Compare categoric contact, primary contact, secondary contact, sympathetic contact.
8. contact lens.

adjective

1. involving or produced by touching or proximity:

verb (used with object)

1. to put or bring into contact.
2. to communicate with:

verb (used without object)

1. to enter into or be in contact.

Origin of contact

1620-30; Latin contāctus a touching, equivalent to contāc- *contag-, variant stem of contingere to touch (con- con- + -tingere, combining form of tangere to touch) + -

Examples for contact

“Keeping in contact with those people, and mechanically getting them to the trial, those are the hard parts,” Risner said.

The spokesman also said that Ambassador King “did not view the movie and did not have any contact directly with Sony.”

She said that she came in contact with Cosby while working at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Every one we came in contact with, both high and low, treated us most kindly.

In fact, he was in contact with Lansky prior to converging from the hillside onto the streets of Havana.

She had been my point of contact as I was trying to get up there.

Our second visit brought us into contact with the bourgeois element.

The contact of her brave lips drove a magnetic flow of confidence into the man.

Thus holiday-makers of the two nations do not come in contact.

For all that his contact with him came to, he might as well be dead!