Contact and Tell

Contact

Contact verb - To transmit information or requests to.

Usage example: you can contact me at this number

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

Nearby Words: contacted, contactor, contacting

Tell verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.

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Contact and tell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contact" instead a verb "Tell".

Nearby Words: telling, teller

girl	contact girl	tell girl
friend	contact friend	tell friend
people	contact people	tell people
wife	contact wife	tell wife
Other words: family, someone, parents, rest, time, way, world, mother, father, police, anyone, player, son, anybody, friends.

The Cameo: Unable to fit space marines into the film, they instead have a Grey Knight contact Lessus at the start of the film (via CGI holographic display) to tell him that the Ordo Malleus strike force has been delayed and he's on his own.

Source: Film / Damnatus
Ascended Fanboy: When the Galactics contact Earth and tell them about the incoming Posleen fleet, Earth assembles a brain-trust to come up with ways to defeat the incoming horde.

Source: Literature / Legacy of the Aldenata
Every contact is a First Contact, at least for Earth outside Gusliar (after some point townspeople learn to tell home stars of starships by their design).

Source: Literature / Great Gusliar

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