contactとは

発音

• (noun):

  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntækt/

  (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntækt/

• (verb):

  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntækt/, /kənˈtækt/

  (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒntækt/, /kənˈtækt/

• 韻: -ækt

名詞

contact (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 contacts)

1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
   • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

     She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

2. The establishment of communication (with).

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

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:

     In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.

3. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.

   Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.

4. Someone with whom one is in communication.

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

5. (informal) A contact lens.
6. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
7. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.

   I bought myself a new contact ball last week

8. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)

派生語

動詞

contact (三人称単数 現在形 contacts, 現在分詞 contacting, 過去形および過去分詞形 contacted)

1. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.

   The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.

2. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone

   I am trying to contact my sister.