What is the difference between a Lead and Contact?

What is the difference between a Lead and Contact?

Leads are raw details about individuals or representatives of organizations collected from events, salons, marketing, web forms and such external sources and marketing campaigns.

Contacts are the individuals with whom communication is established and the organization has engaged with them directly in some form.
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