Word Meanings - CONTACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTACT)

• Feeling
• Touch
• sensation
• contact
• pathos
• tenderness
• impression
• consciousness
• sensibility
• emotion
• sentiment
• passion
• sensitiveness
• Friction
• Rubbing
• grating
• attrition
• abrasion
• Impact
• Contact
• application
• collision

Related words: (words related to CONTACT)

• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• GRATICULE
  A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• GRATICULATION
  The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions. (more info) graticuler, craticuler, to square, fr. graticule, craticule,
• COLLISION
  1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• RUBBIDGE
  Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• GRATITUDE
  The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.
• ATTRITION
  Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis. (more info) 1. The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected
• IMPACT
  To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.
• CONTACTION
  Act of touching.
• SENTIMENT
  fr. L. sentire to perceive by the senses and mind, to feel, to think. 1. A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• GRATIOLIN
  One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis).
• PATHOS
  That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality;
• GRATIFIER
  One who gratifies or pleases.
• CONTACT
  The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• INTEGRATOR
  That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• REGRATE
  To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham.
• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• DEFLAGRATION
  The act or process of deflagrating. (more info) 1. A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.