Communicate vs Contact - What's the difference?
communicate | contact |
To impart
# To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) (to) someone; to make known, to tell.
# To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
#* Jeremy Taylor
# To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
To share
# (obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
#* Ben Jonson
# (Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
#* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 148:
# (Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
#* Jeremy Taylor
# To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
# To be connected (with) (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
The act of touching physically; being in close association.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=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.}}
The establishment of communication (with).
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, passage=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.}}
A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
Someone with whom one is in communication.
(label) A contact lens.
(label) A device designed for repetitive connections.
Contact juggling.
(mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
To touch; to come into physical contact with.
To establish communication with something or someone
In transitive terms the difference between communicate and contact
is that communicate is to pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc while contact is to establish communication with something or someone.As verbs the difference between communicate and contact
is that communicate is to impart while contact is to touch; to come into physical contact with.As a noun contact is
the act of touching physically; being in close association.communicate
English
Verb
(communicat)- It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
- to communicate motion by means of a crank
- Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
- The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
- We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.
- thousands that communicate our loss
- The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients.
- She [the church] may communicate him.
- Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
- I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
- The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
Hyponyms
* See alsocontact
English
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild
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Derived terms
* body contact * contact hitter * contactable * eye contact * first contact * golden contact * point of contact / POCVerb
(en verb)- The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
- I am trying to contact my sister.
