Word Finder - contact

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The act of touching physically; being in close association.

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The establishment of communication (with).

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I haven't been in contact with her for years.

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A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.

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Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.

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Someone with whom one is in communication.

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The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.

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A contact lens.

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A device designed for repetitive connections.

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(by ellipsis) Contact juggling.

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I bought myself a new contact ball last week

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The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

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To touch; to come into physical contact with.

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The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.

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To establish communication with something or someone

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I am trying to contact my sister.

Her step was too long, making contact with his foot.

He picked at his food, and avoided eye contact with Adrienne.

His thick body was at her back, and he shifted close enough to remain in contact while his large hands settled on her arms.

I won't contact you directly.

The egg fell, and she gasped as it exploded on contact with the floor.

Arguments concerning contact with tip lines became heated as well.

I'll contact a lawyer tomorrow.

He asked for a contact phone number and gave me an emergency number to call.

His hand slipped under hers, his palm making warm contact with hers, and then his fingers found their way to lace with hers.

She broke the contact.

But she had left no contact – no trail.

It would be best to contact Connie tomorrow and tell her not to send mail.

You've been in contact with him?

Any chance you have a contact number?

Fred wasn't able to contact the seller.

Knowing the local police included Detective Jackson, I suggested he contact the Simi Valley attorney first to find out if the vehicle I saw was in fact his.

He knows radio contact should have been made when Billy died.

You finally got in contact with the owner?

He avoided eye contact with everyone.

When you're sheriff you can contact all the West coast authorities and try and convince them to chase your bones.

They stayed in remote contact with someone while they worked, attaching an IV and doing something with the knife wound.

No telling how long he had been in contact with Alex – maybe ever since he moved to Arkansas.

Just contact me when you need me.

Should I inform Merrill Cooms I'd been in contact with After, the investigative baby he himself had started?

I've got a contact for you but protect this like your girlfriend at a drunken frat party.

While my relationship with Martha LeBlanc, nee Rossi, dated back to our play pen years and kindergarten days, lately we've hiked different paths, reducing our contact to Christmas cards and once a month phone calls.

Better that we have some contact and hopefully quell any investigation.

I suggest you have no contact with the organization what-so-ever.

I performed all the infrequent and minimal tasks of Econ Scrutiny and handled any direct contact with Daniel Brennan.

He kept trying, and we learned later, he maintained contact for nearly a mile.

Before Dean could contact Lydia to offer his congratulations, she visited Bird Song the day after Cynthia returned.

When she returned with the drinks, Jackson made eye contact.

In my account of Helen last year, I mentioned several instances where she seemed to have called into use an inexplicable mental faculty; but it now seems to me, after carefully considering the matter, that this power may be explained by her perfect familiarity with the muscular variations of those with whom she comes into contact, caused by their emotions.

As if sensing she'd noticed, he straightened and moved away, breaking contact to stand a few feet away.

Grandfather Ed was the one who made contact with Paul.

I'll contact you later.

He replaced his weapons and pulled on new boots, pausing when the net beeped, indicating someone was trying to contact him.

In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately.

Karataev had no attachments, friendships, or love, as Pierre understood them, but loved and lived affectionately with everything life brought him in contact with, particularly with man--not any particular man, but those with whom he happened to be.

I just hoped and prayed somehow his contact of Ben or Howie could be used to locate us.

I check the web site of After occasionally but have refrained from direct contact.

Why can't I contact Damian or Jule?

Linda is putting me in contact with the support group she belongs to.

They had given Martha a telephone card and asked she contact them as soon and as often as she could.

She pushed her shirt down and moved away to break contact, facing him again when half the bed was between them.

She passed through the throng without making eye contact for fear of leers or judging looks and reached the entrance foyer.

But perhaps you should contact an attorney.

Instead, he returned to Bird Song to once more try to contact his wife.

You need me to contact any of your companions or anyone else from the office?

It is essential that the paper covering be loose, so as to ensure that each wire is enclosed in a coating not of paper only, but also of air; the wires in fact are really insulated from each other by the dry air, the loose paper acting merely as a separator to prevent them from coming into contact.