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Contact Means Latin Tangible Surprisingly Tangere Tactile Tangent

正面 1486.contact
英 ['kɒntækt]美 ['kɑntækt]

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释义:
n. 接触,联系vt. 使接触,联系vi. 使接触,联系
例句:
1. Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.友情是理解,不是妥协;是原谅,不是遗忘。即使不联系,感情依然在。

tour.........途哦..............旅 途
contact 接触con-, 强调。-tact, 接触,词源同tactile, tangible.
contactcontact: [17] The underlying notion of contact is not surprisingly one of ‘touching’. It comes ultimately from Latin tangere ‘touch’, source of English tactile, tangent, and tangible. Using the prefix com- ‘together’ this was formed into a compound verb contangere ‘touch, border on’, whose past participle contāctus was borrowed into English, originally as a noun (its use as a verb is a surprisingly late development, which did not happen until the late 19th century). Also derived from Latin contangere is contagion [14], and contaminate is probably related.=> contagion, contaminate, tactile, tangent, tangiblecontact (v.)1834, "put in contact," from contact (n.). Meaning "get in touch with" is 1927, American English. Related: Contacted; contacting.contact (n.)1620s, "action of touching," from Latin contactus "a touching," from past participle of contingere "to touch, seize," from com- "together" (see com-) + tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)). Figurative sense of "connection, communication" is from 1818. As a signal to the person about to spin an aircraft propeller that the ignition is switched on, the word was in use by 1913. Contact lens is first recorded 1888; short form contact is from 1961."

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