association vs contact

association

noun
  • The act of associating. 

  • The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something. 

  • Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf. 

  • A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business. 

  • A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society. 

  • Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation). 

contact

noun
  • The establishment of communication (with). 

  • The act of touching physically; being in close association. 

  • The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact. 

  • A contact lens. 

  • The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. 

  • A device designed for repetitive connections. 

  • Contact juggling. 

  • A nodule designed to connect a device with something else. 

  • Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication. 

verb
  • To establish communication with something or someone. 

  • To touch; to come into physical contact with. 

How often have the words association and contact occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )