contacts

nounform of communication
nountouching
verbcommunicate with

Synonyms for contacts

noun form of communication

Antonyms for contacts

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for contacts

And if to the two a third be added in due order, the number of terms will be three, and the contacts two?

Whatever is the whole number of things, the contacts will be always one less.

If a "cutout" is on the board, keep its contacts smooth and clean.

They had to be nurtured and upheld, no matter how the contacts of life hit his own skin.

Stay hidden at least three days before you try to make any contacts.

Within in it the goggled figure of Molo was moving, adjusting the contacts.

Do the contacts of city life make for the development of individuality?

In either case, contacts are collisions of interests in the individuals.

All his hopes in this connection were dissolved by the contacts he had made in London and in Paris.

He is a good man, wholesome in all his contacts, despite the apparent intolerance of his private remarks to the interviewer.

contacts

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eyeglasses

spectacles

contacts

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More words related to contacts

contact lenses

eyeglasses

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