Synonyms for contact
ˈkɒn tæktcon·tact

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1. contact

   Collision, the act or fact of striking violently together, is the result of motion or action, and is sudden and momentary; contact may be a condition of rest, and be continuous and permanent; collision is sudden and violent contact. Concussion is often by transmitted force rather than by direct impact; two railway-trains come into collision; an explosion of dynamite shatters neighboring windows by concussion. Impact is the blow given by the striking body; as, the impact of the cannon-shot upon the target. An encounter is always violent, and generally hostile. Meeting is neutral, and may be of the dearest friends or of the bitterest foes; of objects, of persons, or of opinions; of two or of a multitude. Shock is the result of collision. In the figurative use, we speak of clashing of views, collision of persons. Opposition is used chiefly of persons, more rarely of opinions or interests; conflict is used indifferently of all.

   Synonyms:
   clash, clashing, collision, concussion, conflict, encounter, impact, meeting, opposition, shock

   Antonyms:
   agreement, amity, coincidence, concert, concord, concurrence, conformity, harmony, unison, unity

   Preposition:
   Collision of one object with another; of or between opposing objects.

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1. contact

   Synonyms:
   touch, contiguity, continuity, apposition, adjunction

   Antonyms:
   proximity, adjacence, interruption, disconnection, separation, distance, isolation, noncontact

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1. contactnoun

   close interaction

   "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"

   Synonyms:
   link, touch, striking, liaison, impinging, physical contact, inter-group communication, tangency, middleman, contact lens

2. contact, physical contactnoun

   the act of touching physically

   "her fingers came in contact with the light switch"

   Synonyms:
   link, touch, striking, liaison, impinging, physical contact, inter-group communication, tangency, middleman, contact lens

3. contactnoun

   the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity

   "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid"

   Synonyms:
   link, touch, striking, liaison, impinging, physical contact, inter-group communication, tangency, middleman, contact lens

4. contact, impinging, strikingnoun

   the physical coming together of two or more things

   "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"

   Synonyms:
   link, touch, striking, liaison, impinging, physical contact, inter-group communication, tangency, hit, middleman, contact lens, hitting

5. contact, middlemannoun

   a person who is in a position to give you special assistance

   "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"

   Synonyms:
   link, touch, striking, liaison, impinging, wholesaler, physical contact, inter-group communication, jobber, tangency, middleman, contact lens, interlocutor

6. liaison, link, contact, inter-group communicationnoun

   a channel for communication between groups

   "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"

   Synonyms:
   inter-group communication, affair, impinging, touch, amour, tangency, physical contact, linkup, connexion, tie, affaire, tie-in, nexus, liaison, data link, middleman, radio link, involvement, connectedness, contact lens, striking, link, connection, intimacy

7. contact, tangencynoun

   (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact

   "they forget to solder the contacts"

   Synonyms:
   link, touch, striking, liaison, impinging, physical contact, inter-group communication, tangency, middleman, contact lens

8. contact, touchnoun

   a communicative interaction

   "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"

   Synonyms:
   jot, soupcon, cutaneous senses, touch sensation, touch, touch modality, tangency, touching, hint, physical contact, ghost, sense of touch, skin senses, striking, inter-group communication, liaison, trace, feeling, pinch, contact lens, link, impinging, mite, middleman, tinge, tactual sensation, speck, spot, tactile sensation, signature

9. contact, contact lensverb

   a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication

   Synonyms:
   link, touch, striking, liaison, impinging, physical contact, inter-group communication, tangency, middleman, contact lens

10. reach, get through, get hold of, contactverb

    be in or establish communication with

    "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"

    Synonyms:
    adjoin, touch, attain, seize, strive, progress to, wrap up, come through, hit, arrive at, pass on, make, finish up, reach, take, meet, get hold of, finish off, get to, polish off, penetrate, gain, mop up, fall into place, give, come home, while away, achieve, pass, clutch, dawn, click, clear up, turn over, sink in, accomplish, reach out, strain, get across, extend to, get through, hand

11. touch, adjoin, meet, contactverb

    be in direct physical contact with; make contact

    "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"

    Synonyms:
    adjoin, conform to, touch, butt against, come across, butt, foregather, rival, fulfil, fulfill, pertain, satisfy, match, concern, impact, stir, tinge, refer, meet, have-to doe with, abut, edge, get hold of, converge, get together, run across, receive, border, forgather, fit, encounter, get through, butt on, affect, gather, take on, run into, cope with, fill, play, relate, touch on, equal, tinct, bear on, suffer, allude, bear upon, reach, come to, advert, march, assemble, partake, extend to, see, disturb, tint

Matched Categories

1. • Communication
   • Connection
   • Electronics
   • Happening
   • Interaction
   • Junction
   • Representative

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1. contactnoun

   Synonyms:
   touch, juxtaposition, junction, contiguity, close union

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1. contactnoun

   Synonyms:
   touching, tangency, contingency, impact, juxtaposition, osculation, contiguity, apposition, syzygy

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1. List of paraphrases for "contact":

   contacts, touch, liaison, contacting, ignition, focal, contacto, contacted, call, communication, liaise, pinch, communicate, mating, interlocutor, coordinates, link, communications

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How to use contact in a sentence?

1. Celine Gounder:

   We're also all taxpayers and the amount of resources that are now being used in California per se as a result of the Disneyland outbreak, there's a tremendous amount of resources to track down everybody who's been in contact with those cases, if you end up on a ventilator in intensive care because you have measles, if you have a brain infection that causes lifelong brain damage, that's a burden on all of us.

2. Francesco Cappuccio:

   If you sleep a lot for no reason you should probably contact your doctor.

3. Jerry Moran:

   Given [Thursday's] horrific events and now predictions of further difficult days ahead, I need answers immediately to my questions. The planning to care for our veterans must not replicate the disastrous lack of planning connected with our withdrawal from Afghanistan, it is our duty to honor the service and sacrifice of all those who responded to the attacks on our country since 9/11, including those who lost their lives this week. I will remain in close contact with VA’s mental health and suicide prevention program office and work to make certain they have every resource in place to meet the needs of our veterans in crisis.

4. Thorolfur Gudnason:

   We are finding that above 60 % of new cases are in people already quarantined. So that showed that contact tracing and quarantining contacts was a good move for us.

5. Ann Skelton:

   The recommendation is that the children should stay with the parents who have raised them and should also be permitted to have contact with their biological parents.