What is the meaning of CONTACT. Phrases containing CONTACT
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to soak nets and seines or snails in tan made from rinds of trees; also to wound the skin by contact with an object, etc. (I barked my shin against the chair)
A glass covered table housed in the Ship's operations room which was used by a Radar Plotter to plot radar contacts, and provide a tactical surface picture for use in fighting the ship. Finally phased out in the 1980s as they were replaced by Tactical Data Systems (TDS) (computer systems).
a slight touch; contact; acquirement or experience (“George had a sketch of paralysis last fallâ€)
room for sensual contact
A transitory disturbed area which is caused by dramatic maneuvers (sharp turns) of a sub at high speeds. Often the evasive maneuver causes sonar pulses to be returned, and have the false appearance of a submarine contact.
A self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target, or in proximity to it.
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Report that is returned when there is no radio contact, or visual contact. Also used for any piece of equipment that is not functional.
condition of being in contact with the enemy, a firefight, also "in the shit."
The point at which two radar contacts join and become one.
The common label used for unknown surface radar contacts.
A radio call signifying that an aircraft has gained visual contact.
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v.
The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
v. t.
To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
v.
The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.
v. i.
To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
v. t.
An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
n.
A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.
v. i.
To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
n.
The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
a.
Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
n.
Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.
v. i.
To contact matrimony; to marry.
v. t.
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
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To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
n.
Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
v. i.
To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
n.
The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
n.
Want of parallelism between strata in contact.
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To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
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