| contact | close interaction, they kept in daily contact, they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings |
| brush | contact with something dangerous or undesirable, I had a brush with danger on my way to work, he tried to avoid any brushes with the police |
| eye contact | contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other, a teacher should make eye contact with the students |
contact
physical contact | the act of touching physically, her fingers came in contact with the light switch |
| brush-off | a curt or disdainful rejection |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your hair, he gave his hair a quick brush |
| contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
| brush brushing | the act of brushing your teeth, the dentist recommended two brushes a day |
brush
clash
encounter
skirmish | a minor short-term fight |
brush turkey
Alectura lathami | black megapode of wooded regions of Australia and New Guinea |
wallaby
brush kangaroo | any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos, often brightly colored |
brush-tailed phalanger
Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
coyote
prairie wolf
brush wolf
Canis latrans | small wolf native to western North America |
| brush | a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) |
nymphalid
nymphalid butterfly
brush-footed butterfly
four-footed butterfly | medium to large butterflies found worldwide typically having brightly colored wings and mucheduced nonfunctional forelegs carried folded on the breast |
brush-tailed porcupine
brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
| bristle brush | a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant |
| brush | an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle |
| brush | conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor |
contact
tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact, they forget to solder the contacts |
| contact contact lens | a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication |
| contact print | a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative |
| electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
rigger
rigger brush | a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
scrub brush
scrubbing brush
scrubber | a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning |
| shaving brush | a brush used to apply lather prior to shaving |
wiper wiper arm
contact arm | contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet |
| brush cut | a short haircut with hairs standing up like a brush |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
| eye contact | a meeting of the eyes between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication, it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave |
| contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
| brush fire | an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes |
contact
impinging
striking | the physical coming together of two or more things, contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull |
brush
light touch | momentary contact |
brush
brushwood
coppice
copse
thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
contact
middleman | a person who is in a position to give you special assistance, he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor |
| brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
quail bush
quail brush
white thistle Atriplex lentiformis | spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico |
sagebrush
sage brush | any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium |
bud brush
bud sagebrush
Artemis spinescens | a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States |
coyote brush
coyote bush
chaparral broom
kidney wort
Baccharis pilularis | widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle |
rabbit brush
rabbit bush
Chrysothamnus nauseosus | pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits, source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo |
shaving-brush tree
Pseudobombax ellipticum | tree of Mexico to Guatemala having densely hairy flowers with long narrow petals clustered at ends of branches before leaves appear |
catalysis
contact action | acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction, of the topcommodity chemicals,are created directly by catalysis and another are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced |
| contact dermatitis | a delayed type of allergic reaction of the skin resulting from skin contact with a specific allergen (such as poison ivy) |
| contact | the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity, litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid |
polish
round round off polish up
brush up | bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state, polish your social manners |
| brush | remove with or as if with a brush, brush away the crumbs, brush the dust from the jacket, brush aside the objections |
review brush up
refresh | refresh one's memory, I reviewed the material before the test |