(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Contact involves meeting or communicating with someone, especially regularly.
Opposition leaders are denying any ~ with the government in Kabul...
He forbade ~s between directors and executives outside his presence.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, oft N with/between n
2.
If you are in ~ with someone, you regularly meet them or communicate with them.
He was in direct ~ with the kidnappers...
We do keep in ~.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, oft PHR with n
3.
If you ~ someone, you telephone them, write to them, or go to see them in order to tell or ask them something.
Contact the Tourist Information Bureau for further details...
When she first ~ed me Frances was upset.
VERB: V n, V n
4.
If you come into ~ with someone or something, you meet that person or thing in the course of your work or other activities.
The college has brought me into ~ with western ideas.
N-UNCOUNT: into N with n
5.
If you make ~ with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
Then, after she had become famous, he tried to make ~ with her.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR with n, pl-n V
6.
If you lose ~ with someone who you have been friendly with, you no longer see them, speak to them, or write to them.
Though they all live nearby, I lost ~ with them really quickly...
Mother and son lost ~ when Nicholas was in his early twenties.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR with n, pl-n V
7.
When people or things are in ~, they are touching each other.
They compared how these organisms behaved when left in ~ with different materials...
The cry occurs when air is brought into ~ with the baby’s larynx...
There was no physical ~, nor did I want any...
N-UNCOUNT: oft in/into N with n
8.
Radio ~ is communication by means of radio.
...a technical problem reported by the pilot moments before he lost ~ with the control tower.
N-UNCOUNT
9.
A ~ is someone you know in an organization or profession who helps you or gives you information.
Their ~ in the United States Embassy was called Phil.
N-COUNT
10.
to make eye ~: see eye