Used in a Sentence

interacts

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for interacts.

Editorial note

Especially since a program is not an island - it interacts with the OS, the hardware, the network, other programs...

Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

(of people) To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of interacts gathered in one view.

verb

(of people) To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).

verb

(of two or more things) To affect each other.

verb

(intransitive) To act upon each other.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for interacts.

verb

(of people) To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).

verb

(of two or more things) To affect each other.

verb

(intransitive) To act upon each other.

noun

(social sciences) A pair or series of acts involving more than one person.

Example sentences

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Especially since a program is not an island - it interacts with the OS, the hardware, the network, other programs...

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It happens to everyone, and if the cure is making sure no one interacts with anyone else, then we are done.

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The problem is: the car interacts with its environment.

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A whole host of the Cortana functionality is local that interacts with online services via API's that you authorize.

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When anyone police interacts with can carry the gun it makes perfect sense to act as if they did.

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Testing low-level C code, even code that interacts directly with hardware in unprotected domains, is absolutely possible.

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You should be thinking about how this feature interacts with every other feature implemented in Unicode.

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We simply have not collected enough annotation on what every gene does and how it interacts.

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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie should be required reading for anyone who interacts with human beings.

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Lobbying isn't a great thing, and it interacts very badly with PACs, but it certainly isn't millions of dollars in strippers.

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Everything that interacts with the outside has long names, as in the minified plurk code.

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He then discovers that the French are very different than the Bay Area people he interacts with and gets very deeply insulted.

Quote examples

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And I would argue that in a trade-off between police or military safety vs civilian safety, civilians are similarly "both more vulnerable and more innocent (in the sense of being less responsible for their predicament)" than the military or police that interacts with them.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use interacts in a sentence?

Especially since a program is not an island - it interacts with the OS, the hardware, the network, other programs...

What does interacts mean?

(of people) To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).

What part of speech is interacts?

interacts is commonly used as verb, noun.