NOUN | a make contact | make contacts | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- They had also become anxious to make contact with the Secret Chiefs themselves, instead of relying on Mathers as an intermediary.
- Tackling is permitted as long as the tackler does not make contact with the attacker or the other person's stick before playing the ball (contact after the tackle may also be penalised if the tackle was made from a position where contact was inevitable).
- An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. ...
- His covert mission was to determine the mood of the French forces and to make contact with elements that might support an Allied invasion.
- This strongly feminist story has the couple make contact with aliens who the husband mistakes for Australian Aboriginals.
- They had failed to make contact with the few civilians on the island whose duties included looking after the sheep.
- For small or medium volume production "flying probe" testers are used where test probes are moved over the board by an XY drive to make contact with the copper lands.
- It is a semi-remake of "La Jetée" (1962), and both films focus on the theme of fate by introducing the ability to travel through time and make contact with pre-apocalyptic society.
- Ice hockey blades are sharpened in a manner that creates two side edges which make contact with the ice.
- A holo-epiphyte is a plant that spends its whole life cycle without contact with the ground and a hemi-epiphyte is a plant that spends only half of its life without the ground before the roots can reach or make contact with the ground.
- Once a tastant is dissolved in saliva, it can make contact with the plasma membrane of the gustatory hairs, which are the sites of taste transduction.
- In the "Star Trek" universe, they were the first extraterrestrial species to make contact with humans.
- When a Purkinje cell axon enters one of the deep nuclei, it branches to make contact with both large and small nuclear cells, but the total number of cells contacted is only about 35 (in cats).
- Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.
- In 1980, Robert Freitas suggested a more ambitious plan: a self-replicating spacecraft intended to search for and make contact with extraterrestrial life.
- A walking gait is considered tripod if three of the legs enter the swing phase simultaneously, while the other three legs make contact with the ground.
- In Ivan Yefremov's 1957 novel "Andromeda Nebula", a device for instant transfer of information and matter is made real by using "bipolar mathematics" to explore use of anti-gravitational shadow vectors through a zero field and the antispace, which enables them to make contact with the planet of Epsilon Tucanae.
- Another solution was to require a player's cue ball to make contact with the rail cushions in the process of contacting the other balls.
- It is often reported that individuals feel they gain access to higher spiritual dimensions and make contact with various spiritual or extra-dimensional beings who can act as guides or healers.
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