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contacted | shakespeare |

As a verb contacted

is (contact).

As a proper noun shakespeare is

.

As a noun shakespeare is

(uncountable) eloquent language, especially english; poetry.

contacted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (contact)

    • contact

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , 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).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , 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.
    • (Raymond)

    Derived terms

    * body contact * contact hitter * contactable * eye contact * first contact * golden contact * point of contact / POC

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To touch; to come into physical contact with.
    • The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
  • To establish communication with something or someone
    • I am trying to contact my sister.

    shakespeare

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (surname)
  • William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
  • His works or media adaptations of his works.

    • Usage notes

    * (William Shakespeare) Note that Shakespeare's manuscripts use a great many different spellings of his surname, way too many to list here. (At the time, some name spellings were much more variable than today, see (w, Spelling of Shakespeare's name) for a list.)

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
  • *
  • (countable) A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare
  • * 1997 Vivien Allen, "Hall Caine: portrait of a Victorian romancer?"
    • Caine, he said, might be a budding Shakespeare but in Shakespeare's time all it took to put on a play was a barn, a crude stage, ...

    See also

    * English eponyms Words from Shakespeare