Noun

contact (plural contacts)

1. The act of touching physically.
2. The establishment of communication (with).

   I haven't been in contact with her for years.

3. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.

   Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.

4. Someone with whom one is in communication.

   The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.

5. (informal) A contact lens.
6. (electricity) a device designed for repetitive connections.

Derived terms

• body contact
• contact hitter
• contact information
• contactable
• eye contact
• first contact
• point of contact / POC

Verb

to 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 train contacted the gantry.

2. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone

   I am trying to contact my sister.

Contact

Contact may refer to:

Social interaction

• Contact (social), a person who can offer help in achieving goals
• Contact (amateur radio)
• First contact (anthropology), an initial meeting of two cultures
• Language contact, the interaction of two or more languages

Contact is a 1997 film about a scientist, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Written by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg, based on the novel by Carl Sagan.

Contents

• 1 Ellie Arroway
• 2 Palmer Joss
• 3 S.R. Hadden
• 4 Others
• 5 Dialogue
• 6 Taglines
• 7 Cast
• 8 External links

Ellie Arroway

• [Young Ellie on a ham radio following her father's death] CQ... CQ... this is W9GFO, come back? Dad, this is Ellie, come back?

• Mathematics is the only true universal language.

• [On why the message does not foreshadow an alien attack] We pose no threat to them. It would be like us going out of our way to destroy a few microbes on an ant hill in Africa.

• So what's more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the Universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that He simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone?

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