PHYSICAL CONTACT Synonyms

• the act of brushing your teeth

• the act of brushing your hair

• (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together

• an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object

• a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals

• a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

• the state of being connected

• an instrumentality that connects

• (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a connecting shape

• a supplier (especially of narcotics)

• shifting from one form of transportation to another

• the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)

• the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)

• the state of taking in or encircling

• a close affectionate and protective acceptance

• include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory

• hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

• an intuitive awareness

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• a property perceived by touch

• manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure

• undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind

• come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

• perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles

• be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state

• have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude

• undergo passive experience of

• be felt or perceived in a certain way

• grope or feel in search of something

• examine by touch

• examine (a body part) by palpation

• find by testing or cautious exploration

• produce a certain impression

• pass one's hands over the sexual organs of

• affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

• grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)

• a tight or amorous embrace

• hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

• fit closely or tightly

• a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting

• (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons

• a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)

• the property of being close together

• the region close around a person or thing

• a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit

• a light touch with the hands

• the sound of light blow or knock

• the event of something coming in contact with the body

• the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)

• a suggestion of some quality

• a distinguishing style

• the act of putting two things together with no space between them

• a slight but appreciable amount

• a communicative interaction

• a slight attack of illness

• the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)

• the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

• deftness in handling matters

• the feel of mechanical action

• make physical contact with, come in contact with

• perceive via the tactile sense

• affect emotionally

• be relevant to

• be in direct physical contact with; make contact

• have an effect upon

• deal with; usually used with a form of negation

• cause to be in brief contact with

• to extend as far as

• be equal to in quality or ability

• tamper with

• make a more or less disguised reference to

• comprehend

• consume

• color lightly

• (often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection (especially through physical contact)

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• the sound made by a gentle blow

• a light touch or stroke

• completely or perfectly

• having only superficial plausibility

• exactly suited to the occasion

• pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin

• hit lightly