| CONTACT | • contact n. The act of touching physically; being in close association. • contact n. The establishment of communication (with). • contact n. The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact. |
| CONTAIN | • contain v. (Transitive) To hold inside. • contain v. (Transitive) To include as a part. • contain v. (Transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. |
| CONTECK | • conteck n. (Obsolete) contention, heated debate. • CONTECK n. (archaic) strife, discord. |
| CONTEMN | • contemn v. (Transitive, archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt. • contemn v. (Law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling). • CONTEMN v. to despise or scorn. |
| CONTEND | • contend v. (Intransitive) To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. • contend v. (Intransitive) To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend. • contend v. (Intransitive) To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue. |
| CONTENT | • content adj. Satisfied, pleased, contented. • content n. Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure. • content n. (Obsolete) Acquiescence without examination. |
| CONTEST | • contest n. (Uncountable) Controversy; debate. • contest n. (Uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat. • contest n. (Countable) A competition. |
| CONTEXT | • context n. The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify… • context n. (Linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning. • context n. (Archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important… |
| CONTORT | • contort v. (Transitive) To twist in a violent manner. • contort v. (Intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression. • CONTORT v. to twist out of shape. |
| CONTOUR | • contour n. An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape. • contour n. A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity… • contour n. (Linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition… |
| CONTRAS | • contras n. Plural of contra. • Contras n. Plural of Contra. • CONTRA n. (Latin) a Nicaraguan revolutionary. |
| CONTRAT | • CONTRAT n. (French) a contract, an agreement. |
| CONTROL | • control v. (Transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of. • control v. (Transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or… • control v. (Transitive, archaic) to verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account)… |
| CONTUND | • contund v. (Transitive, archaic) To bruise or pound. • CONTUND v. (archaic) to bruise or pound. |
| CONTUSE | • contuse v. (Transitive) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise. • CONTUSE v. to bruise. |