interact

verb

1. 1

   To act upon each other. To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).

   The way staff interact with each other during breaks can play an important role in the workplace.

2. 2

   To act upon each other. To affect each other.

   This medication can interact with alcohol, so it's best to avoid drinking while you're taking it.

   The fortunes of the master and the servant, intimately interacting, rose together. The Baron’s secret skill had given Leopold his unexceptionable kingdom; and Leopold, in his turn, as time went on, was able to furnish the Baron with more and more keys to more and more back doors.

   It is now known that many pairs of organic phosphate insecticides are highly dangerous, the toxicity being stepped up or “potentiated” through the combined action. […] Residues well within the legally permissible limits may interact.

noun

1. 1

   datedA short act or piece between others, as in a play; a break between acts.

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

2. 2

   obsoleteIntermediate employment or time.

   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.

3. 3

   A pair or series of acts involving more than one person.

   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.

Forms

plural

interacts

past tense

interacted

past participle

interacted

present participle

interacting

third person singular

interacts