contact

Noun

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

• a communicative interaction
  • the pilot made contact with the base
    
  • he got in touch with his colleagues
    

• (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
  • they forget to solder the contacts
    

• a channel for communication between groups
  • he provided a liaison with the guerrillas
    

• a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
  • he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor
    

• the physical coming together of two or more things
  • contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull
    

• the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
  • litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid
    

• the act of touching physically
  • her fingers came in contact with the light switch
    

• close interaction
  • they kept in daily contact
    
  • they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings
    

Verb

• 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
    

• be in or establish communication with
  • Our advertisements reach millions
    
  • He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  contact lens , touch , tangency , liaison , link , inter-group communication , middleman , impinging , striking , physical contact , adjoin , meet , reach , get through , get hold of