contact
The establishment of communicationThe establishment of communication (with).
» Have you found your contact lenses?
Hast du deine Kontaktlinsen gefunden? — MUIRIEL
Ты нашла свои контактные линзы? — Biga
Ты нашёл свои контактные линзы? — Selena777
Вы нашли свои контактные линзы? — marafon
Ти знайшов свої контактні лінзи? — deniko
Ти знайшла свої контактні лінзи? — deniko
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Examples
650 sentencesHave you found your contact lenses?
Ти знайшов свої контактні лінзи? — deniko
ruТы нашла свои контактные линзы? — Biga
deHast du deine Kontaktlinsen gefunden? — MUIRIEL
She took off her glasses and put her contacts in.
Вона зняла окуляри та одягла лінзи. — aandrusiak
ruОна сняла очки и надела линзы. — odexed
deSie nahm die Brille ab und setzte ihre Kontaktlinsen ein. — raggione
Did you find your contact lenses?
Ти знайшов свої контактні лінзи? — deniko
ruТы нашла свои контактные линзы? — Biga
deHast du deine Kontaktlinsen gefunden? — MUIRIEL
Meaning
10 senses(countable, uncountable)The establishment of communication (with).
I haven't been in contact with her for years.
Kontakt, Verbindung
конта́ктkontákt, связьsvjazʹ
конта́ктkontákt, зв'язо́кzvʺjazók
(countable, uncountable)The act of touching physically; being in close association.
Kontakt, Berührung
конта́ктkontákt, соприкоснове́ниеsoprikosnovénije, прикоснове́ниеprikosnovénije
конта́ктkontákt, до́тикdótyk
the act of touching physically
(countable, informal, uncountable)A contact lens.
Kontaktlinse
конта́ктная ли́нзаkontáktnaja línza, ли́нзаlínza
More meanings 7
(countable, uncountable)Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
Who is the company's contact for sales queries?
The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
конта́ктkontákt, связно́йsvjaznój
(countable, uncountable)A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.
(countable, informal, uncountable)Contact juggling.
I bought myself a new contact ball last week
(countable, uncountable)The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)A means of communication with a person, especially in the form of a telephone number.
(countable, uncountable)A device designed for repetitive connections.
конта́ктkontákt
(countable, uncountable)The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Origin
From Latin contactus, from contingō (“to touch on all sides”), from tangō (“to touch”). UsFrom Latin contactus, from contingō (“to touch on all sides”), from tangō (“to touch”). Used in English since the 17th century.
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Forms
plural: contactsSynonyms
9 synonyms- the act of touching physically:physical contact
- the physical coming together of two or more things:impingingstriking
- a channel for communication between groups:liaisonlinkinter-group communication
- (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact:tangency
- a communicative interaction:touch
- a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication:contact lens
Word family
72 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
8 patterns- in contact with
- contact lens
- made eye contact
- my contact lens
- contact lenses
- eye contact
- eye contact with
- found my contact
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.