Contact
Contact verb - To transmit information or requests to.
Usage example: you can contact me at this number
Telephone is a synonym for contact in communicate with topic. In some cases you can use "Telephone" instead a verb "Contact".
Telephone
Telephone verb - To make a telephone call to.
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Synonyms for Telephone
Contact is a synonym for telephone in communicate through telephone system topic. You can use "Contact" instead a verb "Telephone".
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| old | old contact | old telephone |
| normal | normal contact | normal telephone |
| regular | regular contact | regular telephone |
| open | open contact | open telephone |
| Other adjectives: actual, large, telepathic, personal, new. | ||
Common collocations
| god | contact god | telephone god |
| headquarters | contact headquarters | telephone headquarters |
Both words in one sentence
- Thomas Edison even built a telephone that could talk to the dead which uses elements that were supposed to annihilate one another on contact.
Source: The Spark of Genius - One episode involves the medium Shirley holding a seance to contact Eustace's dead brother, and the process is that Shirley herself acts as a telephone that the brothers speak through.
Source: Phone Call from the Dead -
Chief Quimby would contact Gadget on a built-in telephone and arrange a meeting, giving Gadget his intelligence on a self-destructing sheet of paper.
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Telephone or Contact. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contact/telephone.
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