contact

contact, touch

meet, encounter, confront, face, contact

名词 contact:

1. close interaction
2. the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
3. the act of touching physically
   同义词：physical contact
4. the physical coming together of two or more things
   同义词：impinging, striking
5. a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
   同义词：middleman
6. a channel for communication between groups
   同义词：liaison, link, inter-group communication
7. (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
   同义词：tangency
8. a communicative interaction
   同义词：touch
9. a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
   同义词：contact lens

动词 contact:

1. be in or establish communication with
   同义词：reach, get through, get hold of
2. be in direct physical contact with; make contact
   同义词：touch, adjoin, meet

1. The switches close the contacts and complete the circuit.
   这些开关可使接触器接通电流形成回路。
2. I have a useful contact in New York.
   我在纽约有个有用的人可以联系。
3. I finally made contact with her in Paris.
   我终於在巴黎同她取得了联系。
4. I've got a useful contact in the post office.
   我在邮局有熟人。
5. For further information, contact your local agent.
   要进一步了解情况，请与本地代理商联系。
6. We made contact with the ship by radio.
   我们通过无线电同那只船保持联系。
7. Have the children been in contact with disease?
   孩子们同这种疾病有过接触吗？

con.tact

n.（名词）

A coming together or touching, as of objects or surfaces.
接触：对（物体或表面的）一次靠近或接触
The state or condition of touching or of immediate proximity:
接触状态：接触或挨得很近的状态或情形：
例句：
Litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid.
石蕊试纸遇酸度会变红

Connection or interaction; communication:
相互联系：相互联系或相互作用；交往：
例句：
in contact with the right people.
和正当的人来往

Visual observation:
目视：靠目力观察：
例句：
The pilot made contact with the ship.
飞机员用目力观察着这艘船

Association; relationship:
关联；关系：
例句：
came into contact with new ideas at college.
在大学里接触到了新思想

A person who might be of use; a connection.
熟人：可能有利用价值的人；关系户
Electricity
【电学】
A connection between two conductors that permits a flow of current.
接触：两个导体之间可容电流通过时的接触
A part or device that makes or breaks such a connection.
接触器：造成或中断这种接触的部分或装置
Medicine A person recently exposed to a contagious disease, usually through close association with an infected individual.
【医学】 接触者：通常由于与患者有密切来往而在近期内可能被染上传染病的人
A contact lens.
隐形眼镜
v.（动词）
con.tact.ed,con.tact.ing,con.tacts[kôn.t2kt., k…n-t2kt.]
v.tr.（及物动词）
To bring or put in contact.
使…接触或将…置于接触状态中
To get in touch with; communicate with:
与…取得联系；与…来往：
例句：
.This past January I was contacted by a lawyer who said he needed my help.(Elizabeth Loftus)
.今年一月份一位声称需要我帮助的律师来找过我.(伊丽莎白·洛夫特斯)

v.intr.（不及物动词）
To be in or come into contact.
有接触或开始接触
adj.（形容词）
Of, sustaining, or making contact.
接触的：接触的、保持接触的或造成接触的
Caused or transmitted by touching:
由接触引起或传播的：
例句：
a contact skin rash.
一种接触传染性皮疹

来源：
Latin cont3ctus [from past participle of] contingere [to touch]
拉丁语 cont3ctus [] 源自contingere的过去分词 [接触]
com- [com-]
com- [前缀，表.与.]
tangere [to touch] * see tag-
tangere [接触] *参见 tag-

【引伸】
contac.tual
contac.tually
adv.（副词）
In 9'' Wilson Follett wrotethat .Persons old enough to have been repelled by the verbcontact . . . may as well make up their minds that there is no way to arrest or reverse the tide of its popularity.. His prophecy is proving correct:In 9'9 only 34 percent of the Usage Panel accepted the use ofcontact as a verb, but in our most recent survey '5 percent of the Panel accepted the sentence
9''年威尔森·福莱特写道：.对contact 这个动词素有反感的年长者还不如趁早接受这一无法阻拦或逆转它日渐通用的趋势这个事实.。 他的预言证明是正确的，在9'9年用法专题使用小组成员中只有34％的人接受将contact 作为动词的用法， 但在我们最近的调查中'5％的用法小组成员接受以下句子：
例句：
She immediately called an officer at the Naval Intelligence Service, who in turn contacted the FBI. See Usage Note at impact
她立即打电话给海军情报机构的一名官员，这名官员接着便与联邦调查局取得了联系 参见 impact