interact

[ in-ter-akt ]

verb (used without object)

1. to act one upon another:

   A person's microbiome and immune system may interact in ways that promote inflammation.

2. to communicate, work, or participate in an activity with someone or something: a user interacting with a computer program.

   a boss who seldom interacts with employees;

   a user interacting with a computer program.

interact

/ ˌɪntərˈækt /

verb

1. intr to act on or in close relation with each other

Word History and Origins

Origin of interact¹

First recorded in 1740–50; inter- + act

Example Sentences

“Never before have we been able to get that kind of information without interacting with the periphery of your body, that you had to voluntarily activate,” says Karen Rommelfanger, a neuroethicist at Emory University in Atlanta.

From Science News

In addition, keep your listing updated by sharing fresh content and interacting with customers through Google My Business Messages.

From Search Engine Watch

Transmission also has important practical consequences for the risks that arise as vaccinated individuals interact with everyone else, whether that’s in public parks, schools, households, or health care facilities.

From Vox

Inarguably it has impacted the way we live, work, and interact with our socio-economic ecosystem and precipitated a transformation across economies and businesses.

From Quartz

Bringing fun to the officeAfter more than a year of lockdown and not physically interacting with colleagues, it is important employees can let their hair down in the office.

From Digiday

But does the project offer a novel way to interact with culture?

From The Daily Beast

But if the goal is to not interact with people, why bother going to a bar in the first place?

From The Daily Beast

An affordance is a feature that offers garden-goers a chance to interact with a garden.

From The Daily Beast

But in an interview, Susli said she did interact with members of the SEA on social media.

From The Daily Beast

Advances in communication and social media have changed the way we interact with each other in a number of different ways.

From The Daily Beast

These various hormones or chemical controllers in the blood interact in a nicely balanced chemical system.

From Project Gutenberg

They open up issues in social psychology, and interact with the enquiries of educational science.

From Project Gutenberg

They act sometimes separately, and sometimes they interact in conduction with each other, producing their various effects.

From Project Gutenberg

But the magnets come at length sufficiently near each other to enable their poles to interact.

From Project Gutenberg

Why should not a form of conscious life so interact with what would otherwise be dead matter as to 'indwell' it?

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• collaborate
• combine
• connect
• cooperate
• merge
• mesh
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