Interact

Quick meaning: Interact is a verb meaning (intransitive) To act upon each other.

Meaning

(intransitive) To act upon each other.

More Meanings

1. (social sciences) A pair or series of acts involving more than one person.
2. (dated) A short act or piece between others, as in a play; a break between acts.
3. (obsolete) Intermediate employment or time.

Example Sentences

The play gives detailed descriptions of the instruments used in the interact music […]

As they listened to groups communicate, Fisher and his coworkers noted what each group member said (labeled a speech act) and how the next person responded. This pairing of speech acts is called an interact.

1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters Written […] to His Son, London: P. Dodsley, 10th edition, 1792, Volume 2, Letter 219, p. 344, Play, in good company, is only play, and not gaming; not deep, and consequently not dangerous nor dishonourable. It is only the inter-acts of other amusements.

1912, William Archer, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 8, pp. 108-109, […] the flight of time is best indicated by an interact. When the curtain is down, the action on the stage remains, as it were, in suspense. The audience lets its attention revert to the affairs of real life; and it is quite willing, when the mimic world is once more revealed, to suppose that any reasonable space of time has elapsed […]

Word Forms

• interacts
• interacting
• interacted

Synonyms for interact

Depending on context, synonyms include interlude, entracte, intermission.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include socialize, relationship, interactive, interaction, dialogue, converse.

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