Contact :: Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Contact :: Contact (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction..
Contact :: Contact (n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact..
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease..
Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm..
Contagionist :: Contagionist (n.) One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever..
Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease..
Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air..
Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks..
Contain :: Contain (v. t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
Contain :: Contain (v. i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
Containable :: Containable (a.) Capable of being contained or comprised.
Container :: Container (n.) One who, or that which, contains..
Containment :: Containment (n.) That which is contained; the extent; the substance.
Contaminate :: Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile..