Contact and Imply

Contact

Contact verb - To transmit information or requests to.

Imply and contact are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imply" instead a verb "Contact".

Nearby Words: contacted, contactor, contacting

Imply

Imply verb - To convey an idea indirectly.

Contact and imply are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contact" instead a verb "Imply".

Nearby Words: implication, implied, implying

Mutual synonyms

Common collocations

life contact life imply life
someone contact someone imply someone
world contact world imply world

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Nero Wolfe You Keep Using That Word: A literal In-Universe invocation: Wolfe dislikes the use of "contact" as a verb, and (as mentioned above) once burned a dictionary because it claimed that "imply" and "infer" were synonyms.
  • Rebellious Princess The Light Novels imply that she does return to her home sporadically, and she even stays in contact with her loved ones, but more often than not for financial reasons.
  • Series / Star Trek: The Next Generation The episode also seemed to imply that the Trill had very little prior outside contact, although DS9 established they'd been interacting with the galaxy for some time.
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