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# interact

«interact» in Mova's school dictionary: **to talk, play or work with other people and respond to them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (interact, interacts, interacted, interacting); noun interaction; adjective interactive

### meaning for a pupil

1) To interact means to talk, play or work with other people and respond to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#m1)

2) In science, things interact when they affect each other, like chemicals reacting or animals in a food web. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#m2)

3) To interact with a computer, game or display means to use it by clicking, touching or speaking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PSHE, people interact with friends; in science, living things interact in ecosystems; in computing, users interact with apps. Phrases: «interact with», «interact online», «interactive whiteboard».

### examples

- Our puppy loves to interact with other dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x1)
- The new pupil was shy but soon began to interact with the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x2)
- Plants and animals interact in a habitat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x3)
- Some medicines interact with each other badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x4)
- You can interact with the museum displays by pressing buttons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x5)
- We interact online, but be careful who you talk to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x6)
- Bees and flowers interact: bees get food, flowers get pollen moved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x7)
- The game lets players interact with characters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Usually followed by «with». An interactive whiteboard lets you touch the screen. Safety: only interact online with people you know in real life.

### In the corpora

- [Natural does not mean safe: some herbal remedies can harm, or interact with other medicines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «interact» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interact/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.