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contact

English

Etymology

From Latin contactus, from conting? (I touch on all sides), from tang? (I touch). Used in English since the 17th century.

Pronunciation

  • (noun):
    (General American) IPA(key): /?k?ntækt/
    (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?ntækt/
  • (verb):
    (General American) IPA(key): /?k?ntækt/, /k?n?tækt/
    (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?ntækt/, /k?n?tækt/
  • Rhymes: -ækt

Noun

contact (countable and uncountable, plural contacts)

  1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  2. The establishment of communication (with).
  3. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  4. Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
  5. (informal) A contact lens.
  6. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  7. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
  8. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

contact (third-person singular simple present contacts, present participle contacting, simple past and past participle contacted)

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

Usage notes

  • The use of contact as a verb is occasionally discountenanced. Nonetheless, its usefulness and popularity have - at least to some extent - worn down resistance.

Translations

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Dutch

Alternative forms

  • kontakt (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from French contact, from Latin contactus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?n?t?kt/
  • Hyphenation: con?tact
  • Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

contact n (plural contacten, diminutive contactje n)

  1. physical contact
  2. contact (close association)
  3. contact (communication, exchange)
  4. contact (someone with whom communication has been established)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • contacteren

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: kontak
  • ? Indonesian: kontak
  • ? West Frisian: kontakt

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contactus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??.takt/

Noun

contact m (plural contacts)

  1. (physical) contact; contact (with another person)
  2. contact (person that one knows)
  3. rapport

Further reading

  • “contact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French contact

Noun

contact n (plural contacte)

  1. contact

Declension

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demographic

English

Etymology

From demography +? -ic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d?m????æf?k/

Adjective

demographic (comparative more demographic, superlative most demographic)

  1. Of or pertaining to demography.

Translations

Noun

demographic (plural demographics)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
    • 1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition,[1] Reston Pub. Co., ?ISBN, page 604,
      Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]
    • 2000, James Chapman, “Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere”, in Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres (eds.), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta,[2] Island Press, ?ISBN, page 82,
      How will this investment affect at the individual level, based on being disaggregated by various demographics (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, income) and locations (inner city, inner ring suburbs, suburbs, exurbs), miles traveled, travel time, accessibility to transit, and car ownership?
  2. A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
    Synonym: (informal) demo
    • 2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice,[3] State University of New York Press, ?ISBN, page 281,
      […] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.
    • 2006, Tom Hutchison, Amy Macy, Paul Allen, Record Label Marketing, Elsevier, page 189,
      A newspaper is consumed by many demographics, a small portion of which may be the target.
    • 2006, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money,[4] Insomniac Press, ?ISBN, page 44,
      As a member of the Generation X demographic, I'm saddened to admit that paying with plastic (whether debit or credit card) has superseded paying with real money.
    • 2012, 24 June (Sun), Debbie Arrington, "Racing Fans are being courted", The Sacramento Bee, page C1, col. 4
      "The demographic for NASCAR is people who eat," said Steve Page, president of the former Infineon Raceway []
  3. An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.
    (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Related terms

  • demographer
  • demographical
  • demographically
  • demography

Translations

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