to contact
∞
2.5
- verb
- /ˈkɒntækt/
:
ponerse en contacto con
- The organization has urged its members to contact their senators and representatives in protest.
- for more information, contact
- contact the author
- contact parents
There are presenters that will contact you because they know you.
- There are presenters that will contact you because they know you.
- If the IRS can't contact you, then what?
- First off, what's your overall pitch when you're contacting these people?
- And you know, and, and we also contacted other recipients of emails.
- They were going to they were contacting people I followed on Instagram.
- And I told him to contact Scott Randolph the next day.
- And one of them contacted me after my book.
- And they quit contacting me after I reached puberty.
- So go ahead and contact them and find out what you can.
- Well, thank you for contacting us, providing us URL.
- And you know, there was something about being contacted by killers.
Examples
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Please contact the support team if you have any questions about your account.
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Please contact me to assist you in resolving this matter at your earliest convenience.
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So go ahead and contact them and find out what you can.
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Maybe we should try and contact the others again.
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As soon as I get in I will contact you
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Well, then, I will contact the agency and set up a meeting to see about getting your job back.
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Regardless of his reasons, Thomas kept trying to contact his father throughout his stay.
Academic text (2008) -
If you have any information, please contact the L.A.P.D.
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Parents interested in participating in the study contacted the researcher and were enrolled in the study.
Academic text (2013) -
I've been trying to contact your husband for the past two weeks... but he's never in his office.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
Make contact with someone by phone or email
926
1.0
Send a letter or message to someone
773
2.3
Share information, ideas, or feelings with someone
338
2.7
To contact someone to offer help or support
294
1.0
To call someone on the phone
230
3.8
To call someone using a pager or loudspeaker
209
2.5
To phone someone
204
1.0
To call someone by telephone
155
2.3
Contact someone after not talking for a while
155
2.6
To reach someone by phone or message
113
2.8
To get in touch with someone after a time without talking
93
1.0
To phone someone
36
3.0
To reach someone by phone or message
20
1.0
To call someone to speak with them
18
3.7
Write letters or messages to someone regularly over time
14
3.5
To make brief contact to give or get an update
10
4.1
To send someone a short electronic message to get their attention
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To pilot an airplane by looking at places on the ground rather than instruments
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.1
Red, itchy skin caused by touching something that hurts the skin
- Specialized
1
4.1
A point or surface that lets electricity flow from one part to another
- Specialized
A microphone that picks up sound when it touches an object like a guitar or window
- Specialized
A print made by putting a negative directly on photo paper, making the image the same size
- Specialized
A metal piece that turns to touch different contact points and connect circuits
- Archaic
A small electronic part that lets electricity flow in one direction when a metal point touches a crystal
How Often
Surface Forms
Etymology
Contact comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and tangere 'to touch', so it literally meant 'to touch together'. By a simple picture, to contact someone is to 'get in touch' with them, which is why the verb means to communicate.