Smack vs Contact - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between smack and contact

is that smack is a distinct flavor or smack can be a small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a or smack can be a sharp blow; a slap see also: spank while contact is the act of touching physically; being in close association.

As verbs the difference between smack and contact

is that smack is to indicate or suggest something or smack can be to slap someone, or to make a smacking sound while contact is to touch; to come into physical contact with.

As an adverb smack

is as if with a smack or slap.

smack

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) smac, smak, smacke, from (etyl) . More at smake, smatch.

Noun

(en noun)

A distinct flavor.

A slight trace of something; a smattering.

* 1883 ,

He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.

(slang) Heroin.

Derived terms

* (l)

Verb

(en verb)

To indicate or suggest something.

Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.

* Shakespeare

All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.

To have a particular taste.

Derived terms

* smack of

Etymology 2

From (etyl) smack (Low German .

Noun

(en noun)

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a .

Etymology 3

From or akin to (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.

A loud kiss.

* Shakespeare

a clamorous smack

A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.

Verb

(en verb)

To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.

* (Benjamin Disraeli)

A horse neighed, and a whip smacked , there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.

(New Zealand) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank)

To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.

* 1763 , Robert Lloyd, “A Familiar Epistle” in St. James Magazine :

But when, obedient to the mode / Of panegyric, courtly ode / The bard bestrides, his annual hack, / In vain I taste, and sip and smack , / I find no flavour of the Sack.

To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.

Adverb

(en adverb)

As if with a smack or slap

Right smack bang in the middle.

Derived terms

* smack-dab

Anagrams

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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.