Contact

Definition

contact /'kɒntækt/ n ၁။ [U] ~ (with sb/sth) (က) ထိျခင္း။ ထိ ေတြ႕ျခင္း။ ဆံုျခင္း။ The two substances are now in contact (with each other), and a chemical reaction is occurring. ❍ His hand came into contact with (ie touched) a hot surface. ❍ The label sticks on contact (ie when it touches a surface). ❍ ( fig ) The troops came into contact with (ie met) the enemy. ❍ ( fig ) Pupils must be brought into contact with (ie exposed to) new ideas. ❍ two people avoiding eye contact (ie avoiding looking directly at each other). (ခ) ဆက္သြယ္မႈ။ အဆက္အသြယ္။ Here's my contact number (ie temporary telephone number) while I'm on holiday. ❍ in constant radio/telephone contact (with sb) ❍ Beyond a certain distance we are out of contact with our headquarters. ❍ She's lost contact with her son (ie no longer hears from him, knows where he is, etc). ၂။ [C] ေတြ႕ဆံုမႈ၊ ဆက္သြယ္မႈ (ျဖစ္ရပ္)။ have extensive contacts with firms abroad. ၃။ [C] ဆက္သြယ္ရန္လူ။ အဆက္အသြယ္။ I have a useful contact in New York. ၄။ [C] (က) ပင္မလွ်ပ္စစ္ႀကိဳးႏွင့္ လွ်ပ္စစ္သံုးပစၥည္း ဆက္သည့္ေနရာ။ အဆက္။ There's a poor contact that causes power to fail occasionally. (ခ) လွ်ပ္စီး လမ္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ လွ်ပ္ကူးမႈကို ျပဳေစ၊ ျပတ္ေစႏိုင္ ေသာ ကိရိယာ။ ။ The switches close the contacts and complete the circuit. ၅။ [C] ( medical ) ကူးစက္ေရာဂါရိွသူ ႏွင့္ ေလာေလာလတ္လတ္ ထိေတြ႕ဆက္ဆံမႈ ရိွခဲ့၍ ေရာဂါရိွႏိုင္သူ။ v ဆက္သြယ္သည္။ Where can I contact you tomorrow? ❏ contact lens n မ်က္ကပ္မွန္။ ❏ make contact (with sb/sth) [ IDM ] ေျပာခြင့္ရသည္။ ေတြ႕ခြင့္ရသည္။ They made contact with headquarters by radio. ❍ I finally made contact with her in Paris.

Examples

1. [contact between] : There has been no direct contact between the two sides in the dispute.
2. [contact with] : Jury members must avoid contact with the defendants and their families.
3. [have contact] : He is no longer allowed to have any contact with his children.
4. [be in (close/regular) contact] : The school and other care organizations have been in close contact.
5. [get/keep/stay in contact] : Do you and Jo still keep in contact?
6. [come into contact] : In Paris she came into contact with other young writers.
7. [put someone in contact] : I asked her if she could put me in contact with a good piano teacher.
8. [make contact] : I’ve been calling him for weeks but I still haven’t made contact.
9. [lose contact] : I have lost contact with most of my university friends.
10. [bring someone into contact] : Our work brings us into contact every day.
11. These people have had very little contact with the modern world.
12. The disease is spread through sexual contact.
13. [on contact with] : The chemicals become activated on contact with soil.
14. [come into contact (with)] : Make sure the wires do not come into contact with water.
15. I’ll talk to one of my contacts in the software business.