Contact vs Physical - What's the difference?
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The act of touching physically; being in close association.
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The establishment of communication (with).
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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
Having to do with the body.
Having to do with the material world.
* John Stuart Mill
* Macaulay
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
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Involving bodily force.
Having to do with physics.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Michael Riordan, title=Tackling Infinity
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(label)
(obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
* Sir T. North
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between contact and physical
is that contact is the act of touching physically; being in close association while physical is physical examination.As a verb contact
is to touch; to come into physical contact with.As an adjective physical is
having to do with the body.contact
English
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild
- (Raymond)
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.
physical
English
(wikipedia physical)Adjective
(en adjective)- Labour, in the physical world, is employed in putting objects in motion.
- A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
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- Physical herbs.
- Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?
