| 单词 | contact |
| 释义 | contact (once / 101 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n 4n Contact is the act of touching or communicating with someone or something else. The question increasingly isn't whether there is other life in the universe, but how on earth we will ever make contact with it. "To make contact" (the noun) means to establish some form of communication, be it physical, verbal, or some other kind. To contact (the verb) means to establish that communication. If you're looking to contact Madonna, good luck. She's got people whose only job it is to prevent folks like you from making contact with her. Batteries have two contacts, one positive and one negative. They are where the battery makes contact with the thing to which it provides power. WORD FAMILYcontact: contacted, contacting, contacts USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Johnson agreed to let the care manager contact him, and to return for a follow-up visit in two months. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Police are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at 1800-577-TIPS or visit the website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Blatant body checking is banned, but there is plenty of contact. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the act of touching physically her fingers came in contact with the light switch Syn|Hypo|Hyper physical contact rub, wipe the act of rubbing or wiping fair ball(baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field snicka glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat laying onthe act of contacting something with your hand scuffthe act of scuffing (scraping or dragging the feet) touch, touching the act of putting two things together with no space between them 2n the physical coming together of two or more things contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull Syn|Hypo|Hyper impinging, striking collision, hit (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together engagement, interlocking, mesh, meshingcontact by fitting together flicka light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) impactthe striking of one body against another touch, touchingthe event of something coming in contact with the body blow, bumpan impact (as from a collision) slama forceful impact that makes a loud noise brush, light touchmomentary contact strokea light touch happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent an event that happens 3n the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid Hypo|Hyper osculation (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent tangencythe state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing connectedness, connection, link the state of being connected 4v be in direct physical contact with; make contact 2The wire must not contact the metal cover The surfaces contact at this point Syn|Hypo adjoin, meet, touch converge, meet be adjacent or come together cover, spread over form a cover over adhere, cleave, cling, cohere, stickcome or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation chafe, fray, fret, rub, scratchcause friction attachbe attached; be in contact with hugfit closely or tightly abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, marchlie adjacent to another or share a boundary border, environ, ring, skirt, surroundextend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle lean against, lean on, rest onrest on for support floodcover with liquid, usually water bloodycover with blood mist, mist overbecome covered with mist glaciatecover with ice or snow or a glacier strewcover; be dispersed over grass, grass overcover with grass moldfit tightly, follow the contours of conglutinatestick together agglutinateclump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. cake, coatform a coat over drown, overwhelm, submergecover completely or make imperceptible leech ontoadmire boundlessly and follow around fringedecorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe gird, girdleput a girdle on or around cloistersurround with a cloister close in, enclose, inclose, shut insurround completely mantlecover like a mantle hem insurround in a restrictive manner cloak, clothe, drape, robecover as if with clothing neighbor, neighbourbe located near or adjacent to cloistersurround with a cloister, as of a garden blanketform a blanket-like cover (over) carpetform a carpet-like cover (over) smotherform an impenetrable cover over shroudform a cover like a shroud 1n a person who is in a position to give you special assistance he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor Syn|Hyper middleman representative a person who represents others 2n a channel for communication between groups Syn|Hyper inter-group communication, liaison, link channel, communication channel, line (often plural) a means of communication or access 3n close interaction they kept in daily contact they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings Hypo|Hyper brush contact with something dangerous or undesirable eye contactcontact that occurs when two people look directly at each other placementcontact established between applicants and prospective employees interaction a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting 4n a communicative interaction the pilot made contact with the base Syn|Hyper touch communicating, communication the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information 5v be in or establish communication with 3He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia Syn|Hypo|Hyper get hold of, get through, reach ping send a message from one computer to another to check whether it is reachable and active pingcontact, usually in order to remind of something raiseestablish radio communications with communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings n a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication 4Syn|Hyper contact lens lens, lens system, lense a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images n (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact they forget to solder the contacts Syn|Hypo|Hyper tangency breaker point, distributor point, point a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs electrical contactcontact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another p-n junctionthe junction between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor short, short circuitaccidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference sound bowcontact (the part of a bell) against which the clapper strikes pole, terminala contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves treadthe part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground contact arm, wiper, wiper armcontact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet anodethe negatively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current negative polethe terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate positive polethe terminal of a battery that is connected to the positive plate conjunction, junction something that joins or connects |
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