Contact

Noun

 * 1) The act of touching physically.
 * 2) The establishment of communication (with).
 * 3) A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
 * 4) Someone with whom one is in communication.
 * 5)  A contact lens.
 * 6)  a device designed for repetitive connections.

Verb

 * 1)  To touch; to come into physical contact with.
 * 2)  To establish communication with something or someone

Adjectives for Contact
friendly; richest; effective; stimulating; intimate; personal; close; casual; fleeting; intermittent; brief; abrupt; superficial; bitter; difficult; banal; brutish; human; nation-wide; diplomatic; domestic; prolonged; mere; necessary; constant; alert; accidental; sonorous; immediate; direct; uninterrupted; unrestricted; terrible; intellectual; social; slight; unclean; extensive; miscellaneous; spontaneous; careless; rude; proffered; lawless; responsible.

Verbs for Contact
abolish—; approve of—; balk at—; bring into—; conceal—; defile by—; enter into—; establish—; favor—; harbor—; join in—; lose—; maintain—; modify—; negotiate—; oppose—; profit by—; reestablish —; renew—; uncover—; vary—.

Derived terms
body contact; contact hitter; contact information; contactable; eye contact; first contact; point of contact / POC

Thesaurus
communicate with, communication, communion, companionship, concord, congress, conjunction, connection, contiguity, contingence, conversation, converse, correspond, correspond with, correspondence, cutaneous sense, dealing, dealings, empathy, establish connection, exchange, feel, feeling, fellowship, fingertip caress, flick, friend, gain a hearing, get, get across, get hold of, get through to, get to, glance, go-between, graze, hand-mindedness, harmony, hit, impinge, impingement, impingence, in, information, interaction, interagent, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, internuncio, interplay, interpleader, interrogate, junction, kiss, lambency, lap, lick, light touch, linguistic intercourse, maintain connection, make advances, make an impression, make contact with, make oneself heard, make overtures, make up to, mediator, medium, message, middleman, nearness, negotiant, negotiator, nudge, oneness, osculate, osculation, phone, propinquity, proximity, question, raise, rapport, reach, reach the ear, register, relate to, relation, reply, reply to, respond to, response, ring up, rub, scrape, sense of touch, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, social intercourse, speak to, speak with, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, squeak by, stroke, sympathy, tactile sense, taction, talking, tangency, tap, telepathy, telephone, tentative contact, tentative poke, touch, touching, traffic, truck, two-way communication, understanding, union, unity, whisper, write to

Etymology
From contactus, from contingere (to touch on all sides), from tangere (to touch). Used in English since the 17th Century.

Noun

 * American Sign Language: Open8@Finger-TipUp-Open8@CenterChesthigh-TipUp Contact
 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: допир
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (jiēchù)
 * Danish: kontakt, forbindelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: snerting
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Mandarin: (jiēchù)
 * Polish: kontakt
 * Portuguese: contato, contacto
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tamil: (thodal)


 * American Sign Language: Open8@Finger-TipUpPalmForward-Open8@CenterChesthigh-TipUpPalmBack Contact
 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: свързване,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (liánxì),  (jiāowǎng),  (tōngxùn)
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: yhteydenotto, kontakti, yhteys
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish: په‌یوه‌ند
 * Polish: kontakt
 * Portuguese: contato, contacto
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Tamil: (thodarbu)


 * See contact lens


 * American Sign Language: Open8@Cheek-PalmBack Open8@Cheek-PalmBack
 * Bulgarian: контактна леща
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (yǐnxíngyǎnjìng)


 * Finnish: piilolinssi
 * French:
 * German:
 * Polish: szkło kontaktowe


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (chùdiǎn)
 * Finnish: liitin


 * French:
 * Japanese: 接点, 端子
 * Polish: kontakt
 * Russian:


 * American Sign Language: Open8@Finger-TipUp-Open8@CenterChesthigh-TipUp Contact
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (liánxì)
 * Finnish: kontakti, yhteyshenkilö
 * French: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic: tengiliður


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, お問い合わせ
 * Kurdish: په‌یوه‌ند
 * Polish: kontakt
 * Portuguese: contato, contacto
 * Russian:, связной

Verb

 * Bulgarian: докосвам, допирам се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (jiēchù)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Ido: kontaktar
 * Japanese:, 接続する
 * Portuguese: entrar em contato, tocar
 * Telugu: అంటుకొను (aMTukonu), ముట్టుకొను (muTTukonu), తాకు (taaku)


 * Bulgarian: свързвам се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (liánxì)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kontakti
 * Finnish: ottaa yhteyttä, ottaa yhteys
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: יצר קשר
 * Icelandic: hafa samband


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 連絡する
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: kontaktować (się), skontaktować (się)
 * Portuguese: entrar em contato, contatar, contactar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: контактировать and, связываться , связаться
 * Spanish:, entrar en contacto con
 * Swedish: kontakta
 * Telugu: సంపర్కించు (saMparkiMchu)

Noun

 * 1) contact

Etymology
Borrowed from contactus:.

Noun

 * 1) (physical) contact; contact (with another person)
 * 2)  (person that one knows)
 * 3) rapport
 * Vous avez un bon contact avec les enfants - you have a good rapport with children