Antonyms for contact
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : kon-takt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒn tækt |
Definition of contact
Origin :- 1620s, "action of touching," from Latin contactus "a touching," from past participle of contingere "to touch, seize," from com- "together" (see com-) + tangere "to touch" (see tangent).
- Figurative sense of "connection, communication" is from 1818. As a signal to the person about to spin an aircraft propeller that the ignition is switched on, the word was in use by 1913. Contact lens is first recorded 1888; short form contact is from 1961.
- noun form of communication
- noun touching
- verb communicate with
- Every one we came in contact with, both high and low, treated us most kindly.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- For all that his contact with him came to, he might as well be dead!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- The contact of her brave lips drove a magnetic flow of confidence into the man.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- Thus holiday-makers of the two nations do not come in contact.
- Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Our second visit brought us into contact with the bourgeois element.
- Extract from : « In the Heart of Vosges » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Daily contact with Daisy showed changes, too, in her which disturbed me.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- Contact with home seems to have charged him with fresh courage.
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
- As he stirred, his hand came in contact with the withered flowers.
- Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous
- The bishop came into contact with a chair, and sat down in it.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- In contact with his own family Walter was no squanderer of words.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
Synonyms for contact
- acquaintance
- approach
- approximation
- association
- be in touch with
- buzz
- call
- channel
- check with
- closeness
- collision
- commerce
- communion
- companionship
- connect
- connection
- contiguity
- contingence
- get
- get ahold of
- get in touch with
- hit
- impingement
- influence
- interact
- intercourse
- interface
- junction
- juxtaposition
- meeting
- nearness
- network
- phone
- propinquity
- proximity
- reach
- reach out
- relate
- relation
- speak to
- strike
- taction
- talk
- telephone
- touch
- touch base
- union
- unity
- visit
- write to
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