contact
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contact
▶noun /ˈkɒntakt/
- 1 the state or condition of physical touching.
■ [as modifier] caused by or operating through physical touch: contact dermatitis.
- 2 the action of communicating or meeting.
■ a communication or relationship.
■ a person whom one may ask for information or assistance.
■ a person who has associated with a patient with a contagious disease.
- 3 a connection for the passage of an electric current from one thing to another.
- 4 (contacts) contact lenses.
- 1 get in touch or communication with.
- 2 touch.
– derivatives
contactable adjective.
contactable adjective.
– origin C17: from L. contactus, from contact-, contingere ‘touch, grasp, border on’, from con- ‘together with’ + tangere ‘to touch’.
'contact' also found in these Oxford entries:
against
- air-dry
- air-kiss
- arm
- assault and battery
- atopic
- base
- battery
- bearing
- brush
- cam
- cam follower
- catch
- cementation
- chiasma
- chill-cast
- clairvoyance
- click
- clinician
- commune
- connect
- connection
- contact flight
- contact lens
- contact print
- contact sheet
- contact sport
- contagion
- contagious
- contaminate
- Creole
- dispensing optician
- experience
- eyewear
- fax
- first intention
- flyblown
- freezing
- French kiss
- frenulum
- gas-permeable
- get
- heavy petting
- hit
- hold
- ice hockey
- impact
- impinge
- induction
