Touch

[tʌtʃ]

Definition

(noun.) the act of putting two things together with no space between them; 'at his touch the room filled with lights'.

(noun.) a distinguishing style; 'this room needs a woman's touch'.

(noun.) the feel of mechanical action; 'this piano has a wonderful touch'.

(noun.) deftness in handling matters; 'he has a master's touch'.

(noun.) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); 'only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us'.

(noun.) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; 'she likes the touch of silk on her skin'; 'the surface had a greasy feeling'.

(noun.) a suggestion of some quality; 'there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone'; 'he detected a ghost of a smile on her face'.

(noun.) the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); 'he watched the beggar trying to make a touch'.

(noun.) the event of something coming in contact with the body; 'he longed for the touch of her hand'; 'the cooling touch of the night air'.

(noun.) a slight but appreciable amount; 'this dish could use a touch of garlic'.

(noun.) a slight attack of illness; 'he has a touch of rheumatism'.

(verb.) comprehend; 'He could not touch the meaning of the poem'.

(verb.) be in direct physical contact with; make contact; 'The two buildings touch'; 'Their hands touched'; 'The wire must not contact the metal cover'; 'The surfaces contact at this point'.

(verb.) make physical contact with, come in contact with; 'Touch the stone for good luck'; 'She never touched her husband'.

(verb.) cause to be in brief contact with; 'He touched his toes to the horse's flanks'.

(verb.) tamper with; 'Don't touch my CDs!'.

(verb.) affect emotionally; 'A stirring movie'; 'I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy'.

(verb.) perceive via the tactile sense; 'Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her'.

(verb.) deal with; usually used with a form of negation; 'I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole'; 'The local Mafia won't touch gambling'.

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Definition

(v. t.) To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

(v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.

(v. t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.

(v. t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

(v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.

(v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

(v. t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.

(v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.

(v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

(v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.

(v. t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

(v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.

(v. t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.

(v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

(v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress.

(v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

(v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

(a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

(v. i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.

(v. i.) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

(v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.

(v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

(v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

(v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.

(v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.

(v.) An emotion or affection.

(v.) Personal reference or application.

(v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.

(v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

(v.) Feature; lineament; trait.

(v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.

(v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

(v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.

(v.) A slight and brief essay.

(v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

(v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

(v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

(v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

(n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.

(n.) A boys' game; tag.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Hit (lightly), strike against.[2]. Meet, be contiguous to, abut on.[3]. Graze, come in contact with (in passing over).[4]. Reach, come to, arrive at, attain to.[5]. Delineate (lightly), sketch, mark out, touch off.[6]. Handle, feel, feel of, meddle with, interfere with.[7]. Concern, regard, relate to, refer to, pertain to, appertain to, belong to, bear upon, have to do with.[8]. Affect, move, impress, melt, work upon, come home to.

v. n. Meet, hit, be contiguous, be in contact, abut on one another.

n. [1]. Contact.[2]. Feeling, tact, sense of feeling.[3]. Stroke (with a pen, &c., or on a musical instrument).[4]. Tinge, tincture, cast, smack, taste, savor, flavor, spice, dash, sprinkling, seasoning, infusion, little, small quantity.[5]. [Rare.] Test, criterion, touchstone, proof, assay, ordeal.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Handle, reach, feel, arrive_at, affect, impress, move,[See TREMBLE],[SeeMOVE_and_AFFECT]

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Definition

v.t. to come in contact with: to perceive by feeling: to reach: to relate to: to handle or treat gently or slightly as in 'to touch the hat ' &c.: to take taste: to move or soften: to influence: to move to pity: to taint: (slang) to cheat: to lay the hand upon for the purpose of curing scrofula or king's evil—a practice that ceased only with the accession of the House of Brunswick.—v.i. to be in contact with: to make a passing call: to speak of anything slightly: (prov.) to salute by touching the cap.—n. act of touching: a movement on a musical instrument skill or nicety in such a musical note or strain: any impression conveyed by contact a hint a slight sound: a stroke with a pen brush &c.: a tinge smack trace a slight degree of a thing: sense of feeling contact close sympathy harmony: peculiar or characteristic manner: a style of anything at a certain expenditure: a touchstone test.—adj. Touch′able capable of being touched.—n. Touch′ableness the state or quality of being touchable.—adj. Touch′-and-go of uncertain issue ticklish difficult.—ns. Touch′-back the act of touching the football to the ground behind the player's own goal when it has been kicked by an opponent; Touch′-box a box containing tinder which used to be carried by soldiers armed with matchlocks; Touch′-down the touching to the ground of a football by a player behind the opponents' goal; Touch′er; Touch′-hole the small hole of a cannon through which the fire is communicated to the charge.—adv. Touch′ily in a touchy manner: peevishly.—n. Touch′iness the quality of being touchy: peevishness: irritability.—adj. Touch′ing affecting: moving: pathetic.—prep. concerning: with regard to.—adv. Touch′ingly.—ns. Touch′ingness; Touch′-me-not a plant of genus Impatiens: lupus; Touch′-nee′dle a small bar or needle of gold for testing articles of the same metal by comparing the streaks they make on a touchstone with those made by the needle; Touch′-pā′per paper steeped in saltpetre for firing a train of powder &c.; Touch′piece a coin or medal formerly given by English sovereigns to those whom they touched for the cure of the king's evil; Touch′stone a kind of compact basalt or stone for testing gold or silver by the streak of the touch-needle: any test; Touch′wood some soft combustible material as amadou used as tinder.—adj. Touch′y irritable: peevish.—Touch up to improve by a series of small touches to elaborate embellish.—A near touch a close shave.

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