Contact and Locate

Contact

Contact verb - To transmit information or requests to.

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

Nearby Words: contacted, contactor, contacting

Locate

Locate verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.

Contact and locate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contact" instead a verb "Locate".

Common collocations

person contact person locate person
girl contact girl locate girl
friend contact friend locate friend
family contact family locate family
Other words: someone, parents, team, rest, base, headquarters, monster, leader, boss, mother, ship, father, brother, planet, anyone, son, daughter, anybody, survivors.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Dead Space It is suggested in Isaac's file that he is estranged from his vested-Unitologist mother Octavia and has been unable to locate or contact his father Poul despite his efforts due to an executive order record classification.
  • Literature / Sorcery & Cecelia In The Mislaid Magician, Kate thinks that she isn't a very good magician because she can only do three things with magic - locate her husband and/or children no matter where they are, contact her husband and/or children no matter where they are, and keep her hair up.
  • The Lucky Elephant Restaurant (2006) – Lane and Harper attempt to locate the missing daughter of a local conservative radio personality; the mystery puts them in contact with the Vietnamese immigrant community of Calgary.
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