Contact
Contact noun - An acquaintance who has influence especially in the business or political world.
Engagement and contact are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Engagement" instead a noun "Contact".
Engagement
Engagement noun - Contact by fitting together.
Usage example: the engagement of the clutch
Contact and engagement are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contact" instead a noun "Engagement".
How words are described
| brief | brief contact | brief engagement |
| direct | direct contact | direct engagement |
| initial | initial contact | initial engagement |
| open | open contact | open engagement |
| Other adjectives: romantic, actual, real, constant, large, extensive, social, secret, new, accidental, significant, unwanted, last, prolonged, previous, prior. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- You start with light hypnosis, move into quick-fix personality engagement and thence to close bodily contact that only misses definition as sexual foreplay on a technicality.
Source: Intimate Psychotherapy -
Break His Heart to Save Him: Liv calls off her engagement to Major to keep him safe from her in case she ever Zombies Out, and the chance that he could become infected from intimate contact.
Source: Series / iZombie -
However, the Rules of Engagement mandated that the pilots make visual contact before firing their missiles.
Source: Crippling Overspecialization
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