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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interact
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
environment
▪ Finally, all these complications interact with a complex environment.
▪ Implementing agencies continuously interact with their environments.
▪ The plasma membrane is the medium through which all cells interact with their environment.
▪ If it is rooted in a view of man interacting with his environment, what is the character of those interactions?
▪ In general, there exists a considerable variety of ways in which a system may interact with its environment.
▪ We can apply this thinking to organisations and look at how they interact with their environment and with other organisations.
factor
▪ We shall explore how these factors interact more fully below.
▪ Depictions of dynamic processes can show change visually over time as well as multiple factors interacting with one another.
▪ We think it is roughly correct to say that the orthodox account sees the different factors interacting as in Figure 1.1.
▪ What is more, these factors interact with one another and different combinations and sequences will determine what eventually happens.
▪ These factors interact making it difficult to predict the likely level of difficulty of a specific problem for pupils.
other
▪ These measures can not be seen in isolation as they interact with each other.
▪ Hearing kids and deaf kids can interact with each other and bring everybody closer together.
▪ The third law is about forces and how objects interact with each other.
▪ Rather, it resides in the people and is articulated through a variety of mechanisms interacting with each other.
▪ They have excellent, fully developed personalities and even interact with each other and their environments.
▪ It doesn't capture the way genes interact with each other or with other components of the cell.
others
▪ It almost goes without saying that social knowledge can not be constructed without interacting with others.
▪ From empirical evidence it seems that species that interact freely with others do so with a great number of other species.
▪ So long as we are in our cars as solo drivers, we do not interact with others.
people
▪ It would be foolish to believe that any group of people can interact without a political undercurrent.
▪ This is the most culturally diverse country on the planet, and all kinds of people interact.
▪ A group is more enduring and supportive than two people interacting socially but is looser or less structured than an organization.
▪ The hype of the virtual reality movement obscures the practical potential for re-thinking basic ways in which people interact with computers.
▪ Small groups allow people to interact, discuss and ask questions, which maximizes integration of learning.
system
▪ Thus we can talk of a local government system which is different from a central government system but nevertheless interacts with it.
▪ In general, there exists a considerable variety of ways in which a system may interact with its environment.
way
▪ Mr Centerman thinks all that is changing, thanks to new ways of interacting with customers, particularly via the Internet.
▪ Engelbart was embarking on a crusade to augment human capabilities by applying new technologies and developing ways to interact with that technology.
▪ These are all techniques by which families can be helped to understand the way they interact together by practical, visual means.
▪ At the seminar I met a number of interesting people and explored ways we could interact by sharing ideas.
▪ It doesn't capture the way genes interact with each other or with other components of the cell.
▪ The hype of the virtual reality movement obscures the practical potential for re-thinking basic ways in which people interact with computers.
▪ Indeed, the way in which they interact is of crucial importance.
▪ The way they interacted with other people, their intelligence was apparent immediately.
ways
▪ Mr Centerman thinks all that is changing, thanks to new ways of interacting with customers, particularly via the Internet.
▪ Engelbart was embarking on a crusade to augment human capabilities by applying new technologies and developing ways to interact with that technology.
▪ At the seminar I met a number of interesting people and explored ways we could interact by sharing ideas.
▪ The hype of the virtual reality movement obscures the practical potential for re-thinking basic ways in which people interact with computers.
▪ In sum, there are far more flexible and powerful ways to interact with a computer than with a television.
▪ Thus, the ways in which children interact differently with peers and adults have different outcomes for development.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Alternatively, pragmatics and other linguistic components or levels can be allowed to interact.
▪ For some, the use of an avatar frees them from shyness and allows them to interact more openly and honestly.
▪ The Fundamental Rule could in principle allow any component to interact with any other component.
▪ The formality of reading allows her to interact with me without uncertainty and anxiety.
▪ Small groups allow people to interact, discuss and ask questions, which maximizes integration of learning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Playing a game is a way for a family to interact.
▪ We learned about how people and their environment interact.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interact

Interact \In`ter*act"\, n. [Pref. inter- + act. Cf. Entr'acte.] A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
--Chesterfield.

Interact

Interact \In`ter*act"\, v. i. To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact.
--Emerson.
--Tyndall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interact

"to act on each other," 1805, from inter- + act (v.). Related: Interacted; interacting.

Wiktionary
interact

n. A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. vb. To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact.

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WordNet
interact

v. act together or towards others or with others; "He should interact more with his colleagues"

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Wikipedia
InterAct

InterAct, formerly known as InterAct Public Safety Systems, is a public safety software company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1975, InterAct is a major provider of public safety incident response software and public safety cloud technology. InterAct’s client base includes more than 2,600 clients in 40 states and across three continents.

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Usage examples of "interact".

But autocatalysis and homeostasis enabled simple structures to interact and spin off more complex structures still, until living things emerged, which combined into ever more complicated entities.

Bundles of data that had waited, circulating unexamined in the box of valves, became suddenly relevant, interacting with this extraordinary new mode of calculation, this autotelic processing.

Normal George interacting with Martha would eventually win her over, and her bitchiness would recede into the background.

This Una of Seakeep had been managing her holding for a long time now, interacting with other Dales as well as ruling her own.

The language of the sixteenth century -understood not as an episode in the history of any one tongue, but as a global cultural experience - found itself caught, no doubt, between these interacting elements, in the interstice occurring between the primal Text and the infinity of Interpretation.

Gingrich, the former House Speaker and Pentagon defense adviser who interacted with both Franks and Rumsfeld, described their relationship as fraught with creative tension.

Young Lieutenant Keogh was chief of security, so he and I interacted quite a bit, since the Antedeans are prickly.

If we recall the definition of life given at the beginning of this article, as a phenomenon of interacting chemical reactions, we can see that the microsphere does not fit.

Participant- observers moved about freely, interacting with both mothers and children.

The nanoparticles in the cloud had to be endowed with a rudimentary intelligence, so that they could interact with each other to form a flock that wheeled in the air.

For the kind of question he was asking, about the population dynamics of thousands of interacting nonlinear oscillators, he would have to find his own way.

She chose the same motif as he had earlier, nymphs and satyrs, but even before he joined her she added a sub-routine which included lovable pets interacting on the periphery of the scenes.

So the only hardships that Valdemar was suffering were those caused by the storms interacting with the physical world-But there, his reasoning broke down, as he thought about the creature his men had brought in.

Their naive premise was that her money and his idealism would interact synergistically, benefiting the planet and allowing them to live in Eden.

A short period of wet and warm brought the mats out of the vents and into the lake beds, where they interacted with the peroxide forms, perhaps incorporating them into the biofilm.