contact vs phone

contact

verb
  • To establish communication with something or someone. 

  • To touch; to come into physical contact with. 

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

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

  • The establishment of communication (with). 

  • 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. 

phone

verb
  • To call (someone) using a telephone. 

noun
  • A device for transmitting conversations and other sounds in real time across distances, now often a small portable unit also capable of running software etc. 

  • A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. 

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