Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - interact

(interacts, interacting, interacted) 1. When people interact with each other or interact, they communicate as they work or spend time together. While the other children interacted and played together, Ted ignored them. ...rhymes and songs to help parents interact with their babies. V-RECIP: pl-n V, V with n • interaction (interactions) ...our experience of informal social interaction among adults. N-VAR: oft N prep 2. When people interact with computers, or when computers interact with other machines, information or instructions are exchanged. Millions of people want new, simplified ways of interacting with a computer... There will be a true global village in which telephones, computers and televisions interact. VERB: V with n, pl-n V • interaction (interactions) ...experts on human-computer interaction. N-VAR: usu with supp 3. When one thing interacts with another or two things interact, the two things affect each other’s behaviour or condition. You have to understand how cells interact... Atoms within the fluid interact with the minerals that form the grains. V-RECIP: pl-n V, V with n • interaction ...the interaction between physical and emotional illness. N-VAR: oft N prep