Contact

(noun.) close interaction; 'they kept in daily contact'; 'they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings'.

(noun.) the act of touching physically; 'her fingers came in contact with the light switch'.

(noun.) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; 'they forget to solder the contacts'.

(noun.) a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication.

(noun.) a communicative interaction; 'the pilot made contact with the base'; 'he got in touch with his colleagues'.

(noun.) the physical coming together of two or more things; 'contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull'.

(noun.) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; 'he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor'.

(noun.) the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity; 'litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid'.

校对:奥斯瓦德

• However, I determined to cut all public amusements as soon as I knew Worcester to be in contact with the enemies of old England. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But immediately afterwards the armature springs backward and makes contact at _P_ and the entire operation is repeated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It had been my profession, for years past, to be in this close contact with young girls of all ages, and of all orders of beauty. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The acid used to liberate the chlorine from the bleaching powder, and the chlorine also, rot materials with which they remain in contact for any length of time. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A pendulum carrying a pencil was in constant contact with a strip of paper drawn beneath the pencil. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The transmitting instrument had five small wheels or rollers, instead of two, for making contacts through the perforations and causing short electric impulses to pass over the lines. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was several months before he could convey one hundred amperes by means of such contacts, but he worked out at last a satisfactory device which was equal to the task. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But the principle applies even more significantly to the field where we are apt to ignore it--the sphere of social contacts. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The actual relaying was accomplished through the medium of two contacts making connection with the local or relay circuit. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In both cases the current was a continuously closed one, and was not alternately made and broken as by the separating contacts of Reis. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Not least important of the joint labors of the Society were its publications, which established contacts and stimul ated research throughout the scientific world. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• We had many contacts with the people of Asturias where they are much developed politically. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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