contact

contact is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
2. noun. The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
3. noun. The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
4. noun. close interaction

   "they kept in daily contact"

   "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"

5. noun. the act of touching physically

   "her fingers came in contact with the light switch"

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

   "they forget to solder the contacts"

   Synonyms: tangency

7. noun. a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
8. noun. a channel for communication between groups

   "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"

   Synonyms: liaison, link

9. noun. a communicative interaction

   "the pilot made contact with the base"

   "he got in touch with his colleagues"

   Synonyms: touch

10. noun. the physical coming together of two or more things

    "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"

    Synonyms: impinging, striking

11. noun. 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: middleman

12. noun. the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity

    "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid"

13. verb. be in or establish communication with

    "Our advertisements reach millions"

    "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"

    Synonyms: reach

14. verb. be in direct physical contact with; make contact

    "The two buildings touch"

    "Their hands touched"

    Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch

Synonyms

tangency, liaison, link, touch, impinging, striking, middleman, reach, adjoin, meet

Common word forms

contacts, contacted, contacting

Words from these letters

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