Contact
11contact — (n.) 1620s, action of touching, from L. contactus a touching, from pp. of contingere to touch, seize, from com together (see COM (Cf. com )) + tangere to touch (see TANGENT (Cf. tangent)). Figurative sense of connection, communication …
12contact — CONTACT. s. m. (Les deux consonnes finales se prononcent.) Attouchement de deux corps. Il n est en usage que dans le didactique. Le contact de deux corps. Le point de contact …
13contact — [n1] form of communication acquaintance, association, channel, commerce, communion, companionship, connection, influence, intercourse, junction, meeting, network, touch, union, unity; concepts 278,388,687 contact [n2] touching approximation,… …
14contact — Contact. s. m. Attouchement de deux corps. Le contact immediat de deux corps. Il n est en usage que dans le dogmatique …
15contact — ► NOUN 1) the state or condition of physical touching. 2) (before another noun ) caused by or operating through physical touch: contact dermatitis. 3) the state or condition of communicating or meeting. 4) a meeting or communication set up with… …
16Contact — (v. lat., Math.), Berührende, wenn sie nicht blos eine gewöhnliche Tangente, sondern eine Berührende irgend einer höhern Ordnung ist, d.h. außer wenigstens einem Berührungspunkt mit 2 Curven, noch andere hat, od. wenigstens Punkte, in denen sie… …
17contact — I (association) noun accord, acquaintanceship, affiliation, alliance, bond, camaraderie, close union, cooperation, coalition, combination, commerce, communication, community, companionship, conjunction, connection, consanguinity, consociation,… …
18contact — verb. The meaning ‘get in touch with’ originated in the US in the early 1920s and was greeted with open hostility by purists for several decades, but it is now well established in AmE and BrE. The stress pattern is unstable; most often the stress …
19Contact — For information on contacting Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Contact us. Contact may refer to: Contents 1 Social interaction 2 Mathematics and engineering 3 …
20contact — I UK [ˈkɒntækt] / US [ˈkɑnˌtækt] noun Word forms contact : singular contact plural contacts *** Get it right: contact: When contact means communication between people, countries, or organizations , it is usually an uncountable noun, so ▪ it is… …
