contact, touch

meet, encounter, confront, face, contact

名詞 contact:

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

動詞 contact:

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

1. The switches close the contacts and complete the circuit.
   這些開關(guān)可使接觸器接通電流形成回路。
2. I have a useful contact in New York.
   我在紐約有個有用的人可以聯(lián)系。
3. I finally made contact with her in Paris.
   我終於在巴黎同她取得了聯(lián)系。
4. I've got a useful contact in the post office.
   我在郵局有熟人。
5. For further information, contact your local agent.
   要進(jìn)一步了解情況，請與本地代理商聯(lián)系。
6. We made contact with the ship by radio.
   我們通過無線電同那只船保持聯(lián)系。
7. Have the children been in contact with disease?
   孩子們同這種疾病有過接觸嗎？

con.tact

n.（名詞）

A coming together or touching, as of objects or surfaces.
接觸：對（物體或表面的）一次靠近或接觸
The state or condition of touching or of immediate proximity:
接觸狀態(tài)：接觸或挨得很近的狀態(tài)或情形：
例句：
Litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid.
石蕊試紙遇酸度會變紅

Connection or interaction; communication:
相互聯(lián)系：相互聯(lián)系或相互作用；交往：
例句：
in contact with the right people.
和正當(dāng)?shù)娜藖硗?/br>
Visual observation:
目視：靠目力觀察：
例句：
The pilot made contact with the ship.
飛機員用目力觀察著這艘船

Association; relationship:
關(guān)聯(lián)；關(guān)系：
例句：
came into contact with new ideas at college.
在大學(xué)里接觸到了新思想

A person who might be of use; a connection.
熟人：可能有利用價值的人；關(guān)系戶
Electricity
【電學(xué)】
A connection between two conductors that permits a flow of current.
接觸：兩個導(dǎo)體之間可容電流通過時的接觸
A part or device that makes or breaks such a connection.
接觸器：造成或中斷這種接觸的部分或裝置
Medicine A person recently exposed to a contagious disease, usually through close association with an infected individual.
【醫(yī)學(xué)】 接觸者：通常由于與患者有密切來往而在近期內(nèi)可能被染上傳染病的人
A contact lens.
隱形眼鏡
v.（動詞）
con.tact.ed,con.tact.ing,con.tacts[kôn.t2kt., k…n-t2kt.]
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To bring or put in contact.
使…接觸或?qū)ⅰ糜诮佑|狀態(tài)中
To get in touch with; communicate with:
與…取得聯(lián)系；與…來往：
例句：
.This past January I was contacted by a lawyer who said he needed my help.(Elizabeth Loftus)
.今年一月份一位聲稱需要我?guī)椭穆蓭焷碚疫^我.(伊麗莎白·洛夫特斯)

v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To be in or come into contact.
有接觸或開始接觸
adj.（形容詞）
Of, sustaining, or making contact.
接觸的：接觸的、保持接觸的或造成接觸的
Caused or transmitted by touching:
由接觸引起或傳播的：
例句：
a contact skin rash.
一種接觸傳染性皮疹

來源：
Latin cont3ctus [from past participle of] contingere [to touch]
拉丁語 cont3ctus [] 源自contingere的過去分詞 [接觸]
com- [com-]
com- [前綴，表.與.]
tangere [to touch] * see tag-
tangere [接觸] *參見 tag-

【引伸】
contac.tual
contac.tually
adv.（副詞）
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''年威爾森·福萊特寫道：.對contact 這個動詞素有反感的年長者還不如趁早接受這一無法阻攔或逆轉(zhuǎn)它日漸通用的趨勢這個事實.。 他的預(yù)言證明是正確的，在9'9年用法專題使用小組成員中只有34％的人接受將contact 作為動詞的用法， 但在我們最近的調(diào)查中'5％的用法小組成員接受以下句子：
例句：
She immediately called an officer at the Naval Intelligence Service, who in turn contacted the FBI. See Usage Note at impact
她立即打電話給海軍情報機構(gòu)的一名官員，這名官員接著便與聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局取得了聯(lián)系 參見 impact