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touch T0286700 (tŭch)v. touched, touch·ing, touch·es v.tr.1. To cause or permit a part of the body, especially the hand or fingers, to come in contact with so as to feel: reached out and touched the smooth stone.2. a. To bring something into light contact with: touched the sore spot with a probe.b. To bring (one thing) into light contact with something else: grounded the radio by touching a wire to it; touching fire to a fuse.3. To press or push lightly; tap: touched a control to improve the TV picture; touched 19 on the phone to get room service.4. To lay hands on in violence: I never touched him!5. To eat or drink; taste: She didn't touch her food.6. To disturb or move by handling: Just don't touch anything in my room!7. a. To meet without going beyond; adjoin: the ridge where his property touches mine.b. Mathematics To be tangent to.c. To come up to; reach: when the thermometer touches 90°.d. To match in quality; equal: Rival artists can't touch her work at its best.8. To deal with, especially in passing; treat briefly or allusively: some remarks touching recent events.9. To be pertinent to; concern: environmental problems that touch us all.10. To affect the emotions of; move to tender response: an appeal that touched us deeply.11. To injure slightly: plants touched by frost.12. To color slightly; tinge: a white petal touched with pink.13. a. To draw with light strokes.b. To change or improve by adding fine lines or strokes.14. To stamp (tested metal).15. Slang To wheedle a loan or handout from: touched a friend for five dollars.16. a. Archaic To strike or pluck the keys or strings of (a musical instrument).b. To play (a musical piece).v.intr.1. To touch someone or something.2. To be or come into contact: Don't let the live wires touch.n.1. a. The act or an instance of touching.b. A light push; a tap: an electric switch that requires just a touch.c. Sports An instance of contacting or propelling the ball or puck: scored on the first touch.2. The physiological sense by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body.3. A sensation experienced in touching something with a characteristic texture: felt the touch of snowflakes on her face.4. A discernible mark or effect left by contact with something.5. A small change or addition, or the effect achieved by it: Candlelight provided just the right touch.6. A suggestion, hint, or tinge: a touch of jealousy.7. A mild attack: a touch of the flu.8. A small amount; a dash: a touch of paprika.9. a. A manner or technique of striking the keys of a keyboard instrument: He played briskly with a light touch.b. The resistance to pressure characteristic of the keys of a keyboard: an old piano with uneven touch.10. An ability to propel a ball a desired distance; control or accuracy: a golfer with no touch around the green.11. A facility; a knack: retained his touch as a carpenter in his retirement.12. A characteristic way of doing things: recognized my friend's touch in the choice of the card.13. The state of being in contact or communication: kept in touch with several classmates; out of touch with current trends.14. An official stamp indicating the quality of a metal product.15. Slang a. The act of approaching someone for a loan or handout.b. A prospect for a loan or handout: a generous person, a soft touch for beggars.16. Sports a. The area just outside the sidelines in soccer or just outside and including the sidelines in Rugby.b. Touch football.Phrasal Verbs: touch down To make contact with the ground; land: The spacecraft touched down on schedule. touch off1. To cause to explode; fire.2. To initiate; trigger: disclosures that touched off a public uproar.3. To describe or portray with deft precision. touch on (or upon)1. To deal with (a topic) in passing.2. To pertain to; concern.3. To approach being; verge on: enthusiasm that touched on frenzy. touch out Sports To win a swimming race just ahead of (a competitor) by touching the end of the pool first. touch up To improve by making minor corrections, changes, or additions.Idioms: in touch1. Aware of the latest developments, as in current events or an area of interest.2. Able to appreciate or understand the concerns or difficulties of others.3. Able to be contacted, as by telephone or email: I will be in touch by phone after I arrive at the hotel. out of touch1. Unaware of the latest developments, as in current events or an area of interest.2. Unable to appreciate or understand the concerns or difficulties of others.3. Unable to be contacted, as by telephone or email: I will be out of touch during my flight to Los Angeles.touch base/bases Informal To renew a line of communication: "He went out of his way to touch base with a broad cross section of ... residents" (George B. Merry).
[Middle English touchen, from Old French touchier, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *toccāre.]
touch′a·ble adj.touch′a·ble·ness n.touch′er n.Synonyms: feel, finger, handle, paw
These verbs mean to bring the hands or fingers into contact with so as to give or receive a physical sensation: gently touched my hand; felt the runner's pulse; fingered the worry beads; handle a bolt of fabric; fans who pawed the celebrity's arm. See Also Synonyms at move.touch (tʌtʃ) n1. the sense by which the texture and other qualities of objects can be experienced when they come in contact with a part of the body surface, esp the tips of the fingers. 2. the quality of an object as perceived by this sense; feel; feeling3. the act or an instance of something coming into contact with the body4. a gentle push, tap, or caress5. a small amount; hint: a touch of sarcasm. 6. a noticeable effect; influence: the house needed a woman's touch. 7. any slight stroke or mark: with a touch of his brush he captured the scene. 8. characteristic manner or style: the artist had a distinctive touch. 9. a detail of some work, esp a literary or artistic work: she added a few finishing touches to the book. 10. a slight attack, as of a disease: a touch of bronchitis. 11. a specific ability or facility: the champion appeared to have lost his touch. 12. the state of being aware of a situation or in contact with someone: to get in touch with someone. 13. the state of being in physical contact14. a trial or test (esp in the phrase put to the touch)15. (Rugby) rugby soccer the area outside the touchlines, beyond which the ball is out of play (esp in the phrase in touch)16. (Historical Terms) archaic a. an official stamp on metal indicating standard purityb. the die stamp used to apply this mark. Now usually called: hallmark 17. (Fencing) a scoring hit in competitive fencing18. (Metallurgy) an estimate of the amount of gold in an alloy as obtained by use of a touchstone19. (Music, other) the technique of fingering a keyboard instrument20. (Music, other) the quality of the action of a keyboard instrument with regard to the relative ease with which the keys may be depressed: this piano has a nice touch. 21. (Music, other) bell-ringing any series of changes where the permutations are fewer in number than for a peal22. slang a. the act of asking for money as a loan or gift, often by devious meansb. the money received in this wayc. a person asked for money in this way: he was an easy touch. vb23. (tr) to cause or permit a part of the body to come into contact with24. (tr) to tap, feel, or strike, esp with the hand: don't touch the cake!. 25. to come or cause (something) to come into contact with (something else): their hands touched briefly; he touched the match to the fuse. 26. (intr) to be in contact27. (tr; usually used with a negative) to take hold of (a person or thing), esp in violence: don't touch the baby!. 28. to be adjacent to (each other): the two properties touch. 29. (tr) to move or disturb by handling: someone's touched my desk. 30. (tr) to have an effect on: the war scarcely touched our town. 31. (tr) to produce an emotional response in: his sad story touched her. 32. (tr) to affect; concern33. (tr; usually used with a negative) to partake of, eat, or drink34. (tr; usually used with a negative) to handle or deal with: I wouldn't touch that business. 35. (when: intr, often foll by on) to allude (to) briefly or in passing: the speech touched on several subjects. 36. (tr) to tinge or tint slightly: brown hair touched with gold. 37. (tr) to spoil or injure slightly: blackfly touched the flowers. 38. (tr) to mark, as with a brush or pen39. (tr) to compare to in quality or attainment; equal or match: there's no-one to touch him. 40. (tr) to reach or attain: he touched the high point in his career. 41. (intr) to dock or stop briefly: the ship touches at Tenerife. 42. (tr) slang to ask for a loan or gift of money from43. (Music, other) rare a. to finger (the keys or strings of an instrument)b. to play (a tune, piece of music, etc) in this way44. touch base to make contact. See base126[C13: from Old French tochier, from Vulgar Latin toccāre (unattested) to strike, ring (a bell), probably imitative of a tapping sound] ˈtouchable adj ˈtouchableness n ˈtoucher n ˈtouchless adjtouch (tʌtʃ)
v.t. 1. to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) so as to feel it. 2. to bring (the hand, finger, etc., or something held) into contact with something: She touched a match to the papers. 3. to pat or tap as with the hand or an instrument. 4. to come into contact with. 5. (of a line or surface) to be tangent to. 6. to attain equality with; compare with (usu. with a negative): a style that can't touch that of Shakespeare. 7. to mark slightly with a brush, pencil, or a color. 8. to treat or affect in some way by contact. 9. to move to tenderness or sympathy. 10. to handle, use, or have to do with (usu. with a negative): She can't touch the money until she's 21. 11. to eat or drink; consume (usu. with a negative): He won't touch another drink. 12. to lay hands on, often in a violent manner. 13. to deal with or allude to in speech or writing. 14. to pertain or relate to. 15. to be a matter of importance to; affect. 16. Slang. to apply to for money, or succeed in getting money from: He touched me for a loan. 17. Archaic. a. to strike the strings, keys, etc., of (a musical instrument) so as to cause it to sound. b. to play or perform (an air, notes, etc.) on a musical instrument. v.i. 18. to place the hand, finger, etc., on or in contact with something. 19. to come into or be in contact. 20. touch down, (of an aircraft or spacecraft) to land. 21. touch off, a. to cause to ignite or explode. b. to start or initiate. 22. touch on or upon, to mention (a subject) briefly or casually. 23. touch up, a. to make minor changes or improvements in the appearance of. b. to rouse by or as if by striking. n. 24. the act of touching; state or fact of being touched. 25. that sense by which anything material is perceived by means of physical contact. 26. the quality of something touched that imparts a sensation; feel. 27. a coming into or being in contact. 28. ability, skill, or dexterity; knack: to lose one's touch. 29. (in fencing) the contact of the point of a foil or épée or the point or edge of the blade of a saber with a specified portion of the opponent's body, counting one point for the scorer. 30. relationship or close communication: Let's keep in touch. 31. a slight stroke or blow. 32. a slight attack, as of illness or disease. 33. a slight added action or effort in completing any piece of work: finishing touches. 34. manner of execution in artistic work. 35. the act or manner of touching or fingering a keyboard instrument. 36. the mode of action of the keys of an instrument, as of a piano or typewriter. 37. a slight amount of some quality, attribute, etc. 38. a slight quantity or degree: a touch of salt. 39. Slang. a. the act of approaching someone for money as a gift or a loan. b. the obtaining of money in this manner. c. the money obtained. d. a person considered from the standpoint of the relative ease with which he or she will lend money. 40. a. the area outside the touchlines in soccer. b. either of the touchlines or the area outside them in Rugby. [1250–1300; Middle English to(u)chen < Old French tochier < Vulgar Latin *toccāre to knock, strike, touch, of expressive orig.] touch′er, n. TouchSee also perception.
haptophobia, haphophobiaan abnormal fear of touching or being touched. Also called thixophobia.thigmotaxisinvoluntary response or reaction to the touch of outside objects or bodies, as in motile cells. — thigmotaetic, adj.thixophobiahaptophobia.touch affect">affect1. 'touch'If you touch something, you gently put your fingers or hand on it. The metal is so hot I can't touch it.Madeleine stretched out her hand to touch his.If you are touched by something, it makes you feel sad, sympathetic, or grateful. I was touched that he should remember the party where he had kissed me for the first time.I was touched by his thoughtfulness.2. 'affect'You do not use 'touch' to say that something changes or influences a person or thing. You do not say, for example, 'We wanted to know how these proposals would touch our town'. The word you use is affect. ...the ways in which computers can affect our lives.The disease affected Jane's lungs.touch
Past participle: touched
Gerund: touching
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| I touch | | you touch | | he/she/it touches | | we touch | | you touch | | they touch |
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| I touched | | you touched | | he/she/it touched | | we touched | | you touched | | they touched |
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| I am touching | | you are touching | | he/she/it is touching | | we are touching | | you are touching | | they are touching |
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| I have touched | | you have touched | | he/she/it has touched | | we have touched | | you have touched | | they have touched |
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| I was touching | | you were touching | | he/she/it was touching | | we were touching | | you were touching | | they were touching |
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| I had touched | | you had touched | | he/she/it had touched | | we had touched | | you had touched | | they had touched |
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| I will touch | | you will touch | | he/she/it will touch | | we will touch | | you will touch | | they will touch |
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| I will have touched | | you will have touched | | he/she/it will have touched | | we will have touched | | you will have touched | | they will have touched |
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| I will be touching | | you will be touching | | he/she/it will be touching | | we will be touching | | you will be touching | | they will be touching |
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| I have been touching | | you have been touching | | he/she/it has been touching | | we have been touching | | you have been touching | | they have been touching |
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| I will have been touching | | you will have been touching | | he/she/it will have been touching | | we will have been touching | | you will have been touching | | they will have been touching |
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| I had been touching | | you had been touching | | he/she/it had been touching | | we had been touching | | you had been touching | | they had been touching |
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| I would touch | | you would touch | | he/she/it would touch | | we would touch | | you would touch | | they would touch |
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| I would have touched | | you would have touched | | he/she/it would have touched | | we would have touched | | you would have touched | | they would have touched |
touchArea out of play beyond a touchline.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  touch - 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"touchingimpinging, striking, contact - the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"light touch, brush - momentary contactstroke - a light touch | | 2. |  touch - 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"cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modalityexteroception - sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the bodysomatosense - any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and painsomatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia - the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | | 3. |  touch - a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"trace, ghostproffer, proposition, suggestion - a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" | | 4. |  touch - a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch"signaturefashion, manner, mode, style, way - how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"common touch - the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them) | | 5. |  touch - the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"touchinghuman action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happenphysical contact, contact - the act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch"dab, pat, tap - a light touch or strokehitting, striking, hit - the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"jab, dig - the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"kiss - a light glancing touch; "there was a brief kiss of their hands in passing"buss, kiss, osculation - the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)snap, grab, snatch, catch - the act of catching an object with the hands; "Mays made the catch with his back to the plate"; "he made a grab for the ball before it landed"; "Martin's snatch at the bridle failed and the horse raced away"; "the infielder's snap and throw was a single motion"handling, manipulation - the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical meansfingering - touching something with the fingersgrope - the act of groping; and instance of gropingpalpation, tactual exploration - a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)tickling, tickle, titillation - the act of ticklingstroking, stroke - a light touch with the handstag - (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)lick, lap - touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet"grazing, shaving, skimming - the act of brushing against while passing | | 6. |  touch - a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"mite, soupcon, tinge, jot, hint, pinch, specksmall indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitudesnuff - a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time | | 7. |  touch - a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"contactcommunicating, communication - the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" | | 8. |  touch - a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism"spotattack - a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition; "an attack of diarrhea" | | 9. |  touch - the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"solicitation - an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status; "a solicitation to the king for relief" | | 10. |  touch - the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation, feelingperception - the process of perceivingcreepiness - an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skincutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation - a sensation localized on the skin | | 11. |  touch - deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch"adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness, facility - skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"capstone, copestone, finishing touch - a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | | 12. |  touch - the feel of mechanical action; "this piano has a wonderful touch"tactile property, feel - a property perceived by touch | | Verb | 1. |  touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"engage - get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged"touch - cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"toe - touch with the toepick up - take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read"strike, hit - produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note"finger, thumb - feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"feel - pass one's hands over the sexual organs of; "He felt the girl in the movie theater"palpate, feel - examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse"palm, handle - touch, lift, or hold with the hands; "Don't handle the merchandise"stroke - touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"collide with, impinge on, hit, run into, strike - hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"brush - touch lightly and briefly; "He brushed the wall lightly"skim, skim over - move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface ofhit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"strike - deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; "The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"buss, kiss, snog, osculate - touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"kiss - touch lightly or gently; "the blossoms were kissed by the soft rain"mouth - touch with the mouthpress - exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot"tag - touch a player while he is holding the balltouch down - come or bring (a plane) to a landing; "the plane touched down at noon" | | 2. |  touch - perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"perceive, comprehend - to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" | | 3. |  touch - affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"stirimpress, strike, affect, move - have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"get - evoke an emotional response; "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time" | | 4. | touch - be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"concern, have to do with, pertain, bear on, come to, refer, relate, touch onallude, advert, touch - make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around - center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work"go for, apply, hold - be pertinent or relevant or applicable; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone"involve, regard, affect - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"matter to, interest - be of importance or consequence; "This matters to me!" | | 5. |  touch - 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"adjoin, contact, meetspread over, cover - form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave"cling, cohere, adhere, cleave, stick - come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"scratch, fray, rub, chafe, fret - cause friction; "my sweater scratches"attach - be attached; be in contact withhug - fit closely or tightly; "The dress hugged her hips"butt, butt against, butt on, abut, adjoin, edge, border, march - lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland"border, environ, surround, skirt, ring - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"lean against, lean on, rest on - rest on for support; "you can lean on me if you get tired"converge, meet - be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point" | | 6. | touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"affect, bear upon, impact, bear on, touch onalter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"strike a blow - affect adversely; "The court ruling struck a blow at the old segregation laws"repercuss - cause repercussions; have an unwanted effecttell on - produce an effect or strain on somebody; "Each step told on his tired legs"redound - have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good"stimulate, excite - act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates"process, treat - subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"hydrolise, hydrolize - make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysistinge, color, colour, distort - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"endanger, peril, queer, scupper, expose - put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult positionhit, strike - affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"subject - cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble, bother - to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."act upon, influence, work - have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate"slam-dunk - make a forceful move against; "the electronic travel market is slam-dunking traditional travel agencies" | | 7. |  touch - 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"handle, manage, care, deal - be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" | | 8. |  touch - cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" | | 9. |  touch - to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"extend to, reachbe - occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"reach into - run into or up to | | 10. | touch - be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"rival, equal, matchequalise, equalize, equate, equal, match - make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"compete, vie, contend - compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | | 11. |  touch - tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!" disturbalter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"upset - disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries"violate - destroy; "Don't violate my garden"; "violate my privacy" | | 12. |  touch - make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"allude, adverthint, suggest - drop a hint; intimate by a hintconcern, have to do with, pertain, bear on, come to, touch on, refer, relate, touch - be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" | | 13. |  touch - comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" | | 14. |  touch - consume; "She didn't touch her food all night"partakeingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"receive - partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament | | 15. |  touch - color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"tinct, tint, tingehenna - apply henna to one's hair; "She hennas her hair every month"color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"tincture - stain or tint with a color; "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red"complexion - give a certain color to; "The setting sun complexioned the hills" |
touchverb1. feel, handle, finger, stroke, brush, make contact with, graze, caress, fondle, lay a finger on, palpate Her tiny hand gently touched my face.2. come into contact, meet, contact, border, brush, come together, graze, adjoin, converge, be in contact, abut, impinge upon Their knees were touching.3. handle, use, move, hold, pick up, disturb, interfere with, tamper with, toy with, fiddle with, meddle with, lay a hand on, lay a finger on, play about or around with Don't touch any of my things!4. tap, hit, strike, push, pat As the aeroplane came down, the wing touched a pile of rubble.5. deal with, do, handle, take care of, see to, attend to When he began restoring the house, nothing had been touched for 40 years.6. affect, mark, involve, strike, get to (informal), influence, inspire, impress, get through to, have an effect on, make an impression on a guilt that in some way touches everyone7. consume, take, drink, eat, partake of He doesn't drink much, and he never touches drugs.8. move, upset, stir, disturb, melt, soften, tug at someone's heartstrings (often facetious), leave an impression on It has touched me deeply to see how these people live.9. match, rival, equal, compare with, parallel, come up to, come near, be on a par with, be a match for, hold a candle to (informal), be in the same league as No one can touch these girls for professionalism.10. (Informal) ask, approach, beg, borrow from Now is the time to touch him for a loan.11. get involved in, use, deal with, handle, have to do with, utilize, be a party to, concern yourself with Some sports wouldn't touch tobacco advertising.12. reach, hit (informal), come to, rise to, arrive at, attain, get up to The winds had touched storm-force the day before.noun1. contact, push, stroke, brush, press, tap, poke, nudge, prod, caress, fondling Even a light touch on the face can trigger this pain.2. feeling, feel, handling, physical contact, palpation, tactility Our sense of touch is programmed to diminish with age.3. detail, feature, addition, accessory, nicety Small touches to a room like flowers can give it vitality.4. bit, spot, trace, drop, taste, suggestion, hint, dash, suspicion, pinch, smack, small amount, tinge, whiff, jot, speck, smattering, intimation, tincture She thought she might have a touch of flu.5. style, approach, method, technique, way, manner, characteristic, trademark, handiwork The striker was unable to find his scoring touch.6. awareness, understanding, acquaintance, familiarity They've lost touch with what is happening in the country.7. communication, contact, association, connection, correspondence In my job one tends to lose touch with friends.8. skill, ability, flair, art, facility, command, craft, mastery, knack, artistry, virtuosity, deftness, adroitness You don't want to lose your touch. You should get some practice.9. influence, hand, effect, management, direction This place is crying out for a woman's touch.touch and go risky, close, near, dangerous, critical, tricky, sticky (informal), hazardous, hairy (slang), precarious, perilous, nerve-racking, parlous It was touch and go whether we'd go bankrupt.touch down land, arrive, come down, put down, alight, come to rest, come down to earth, come in to land, make a landing Spacecraft Columbia touched down yesterday.touch on or upon something refer to, cover, raise, deal with, mention, bring in, speak of, hint at, allude to, broach, make allusions to The film touches on these issues, but only superficially.touch someone up fondle, grope (informal), molest, feel up, goose (informal), paw (informal), maul (informal), cop a feel (U.S. informal) They surrounded me and started touching me up.touch something off1. trigger (off), start, begin, cause, provoke, set off, initiate, arouse, give rise to, ignite, stir up, instigate, spark off, set in motion, foment The massacre touched off a new round of violence.2. ignite, light, fire, set off, detonate, put a match to set enormous fuel fires raging, or touch off explosionstouch something up1. enhance, revamp, renovate, patch up, brush up, gloss over, polish up, retouch, airbrush, titivate, give a face-lift to He got up regularly to touch up the painting.2. improve, perfect, round off, enhance, dress up, finish off, embellish, put the finishing touches to Use these tips to touch up your image.Related words
adjectives haptic, tactile, tactual
fear haptophobiatouchverb1. To bring the hands or fingers, for example, into contact with so as to give or receive a physical sensation:feel, finger, handle, palpate.2. To bring into or make contact with:contact.3. To be contiguous or next to:abut, adjoin, border, bound, butt, join, meet, neighbor, verge.4. To be equal or alike:compare, correspond, equal, match, measure up, parallel.Informal: stack up.5. To call or direct attention to something.On or upon:advert, bring up, mention, point, point out, refer.6. To evoke a usually strong mental or emotional response from:affect, get (to), impress, move, strike.phrasal verb
touch downTo come to rest on the ground:alight, land, light, set down, settle.phrasal verb
touch off1. To release or cause to release energy suddenly and violently, especially with a loud noise:blast, blow (up), burst, detonate, explode, fire, fulminate, go off.2. To be the cause of:bring, bring about, bring on, cause, effect, effectuate, generate, induce, ingenerate, lead to, make, occasion, result in, secure, set off, stir (up), trigger.Idioms: bring to pass, give rise to.3. To stir to action or feeling:egg on, excite, foment, galvanize, goad, impel, incite, inflame, inspire, instigate, motivate, move, pique, prick, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, set off, spur, stimulate, trigger, work up.phrasal verb
touch upTo improve by making minor changes or additions:polish, retouch.noun1. An act of touching:feeling, palpation.2. A coming together so as to be touching:contact, contingence.3. The faculty or ability to perceive tactile stimulation:feel, feeling, tactility.4. A particular sensation conveyed by means of physical contact:feel, feeling.5. A slight amount or indication:breath, dash, ghost, hair, hint, intimation, semblance, shade, shadow, soupçon, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taste, tinge, trace, whiff, whisper.Informal: whisker.6. A situation allowing exchange of ideas or messages:communication, contact, intercommunication.Translationstouch (tatʃ) verb1. to be in, come into, or make, contact with something else. Their shoulders touched; He touched the water with his foot. 接觸 接触2. to feel (lightly) with the hand. He touched her cheek. 撫摸 抚摸3. to affect the feelings of; to make (someone) feel pity, sympathy etc. I was touched by her generosity. 感動 感动4. to be concerned with; to have anything to do with. I wouldn't touch a job like that. 插手(某事)，涉及 插手（某事），涉及 noun1. an act or sensation of touching. I felt a touch on my shoulder. 輕觸 轻击2. (often with the) one of the five senses, the sense by which we feel things. the sense of touch; The stone felt cold to the touch. 觸覺 触觉3. a mark or stroke etc to improve the appearance of something. The painting still needs a few finishing touches. 裝點，潤色 润色，轻触 4. skill or style. He hasn't lost his touch as a writer. 風格 风格5. (in football) the ground outside the edges of the pitch (which are marked out with ˈtouchlines). He kicked the ball into touch. (足球)邊線 （足球）边线 ˈtouching adjective moving; causing emotion. a touching story. 動人的 动人的ˈtouchingly adverb in a moving way, so as to cause emotion. Her face was touchingly childlike. 動人地 动人地ˈtouchy adjective easily annoyed or offended. You're very touchy today; in rather a touchy mood. 易生氣的 易生气的ˈtouchily adverb 易生氣地 易生气地ˈtouchiness noun 過於敏感 敏感ˈtouch screen noun a computer screen that responds to the user's touch on its surface. (電腦)觸控螢幕 （计算机）触摸屏 in touch (with) in communication (with). I have kept in touch with my school-friends. 保持聯繫(接觸) 保持联系（接触） lose touch (with) to stop communicating (with). I used to see him quite often but we have lost touch. 失去聯繫 失去联系out of touch (with)1. not in communication (with). 中斷聯繫 中断联系2. not sympathetic or understanding (towards). Older people sometimes seem out of touch with the modern world. 不表同情，和...不一致 不表同情，和...不一致 a touch a small quantity or degree. The soup needs a touch of salt; a touch of imagination. 少許 少许touch down1. (of aircraft) to land. The plane should touch down at 2 o'clock. 降落 降落2. in rugby and American football, to put the ball on the ground behind the opposite team's goal line (noun ˈtouch-down). (橄欖球)底線得分 （橄榄球）底线得分 touch off to make (something) explode. a spark touched off the gunpowder; His remark touched off an argument. 激起...爆炸，觸發 激起...爆炸，触发 touch up to improve eg paintwork, a photograph etc by small touches. The photograph had been touched up. 潤色 润色touch wood (used as an interjection) to touch something made of wood superstitiously, in order to avoid bad luck. None of the children has ever had a serious illness, touch wood! (迷信用的)朽木(求取避免厄運) （迷信用的）朽木（求取避免厄运） touch
touch (oneself)1. euphemism To masturbate. My mother always used to say you'll go blind if you touch yourself.2. To touch or fondle one's genitals. Get your hands out of your pants and stop touching yourself!See also: touchtouch1. n. a likely target for begging; someone who is asked for a loan. (see also soft touch.) He was just the kind of touch we were looking for, not too bright and not too poor. 2. n. a request for money (from a beggar); a request for a loan. I ignored the touch and walked on by. 3. tv. to ask someone for a loan. He touched me for a hundred bucks. 4. n. a small portion of something to eat or drink. (Folksy.) I’ll have just a touch. I’m on a diet, you know. 5. tv. to deal with or handle someone or something. (Usually in the negative.) Mr. Wilson is a real pain, and I wouldn’t touch his account. Find somebody else to handle it. touch base/bases Informal To renew a line of communication: "He went out of his way to touch base with a broad cross section of ... residents" (George B. Merry).touch
touch, tactile sensation received by the skin, enabling the organism to detect objects or substances in contact with the body. End organs (nerve endings) in the skin convey the impression to the brain. Touch sensitivity varies in different parts of the body, depending on the number of end organs present in any one area. The tip of the tongue, lips, and fingertips are three of the most sensitive areas, the back and parts of the limbs the least so. The sense of touch is very closely related to the other four sensations received by the skin: pain, pressure, heat, and cold. There is a specific kind of sensory receptor for each of the five so-called cutaneous senses. For example, light-touch receptors convey only the sensation that an object is in contact with the body, while pressure receptors convey the force, or degree, of contact. The blind learn to read by the Braille system by making use of the sensitivity to touch of the fingertips.Touch the ability of animals and man to sense environmental factors by means of receptors in the skin; in the locomotor system, which includes the muscles, tendons, and joints; and in some mucous membranes, such as those on the lips and tongue. The tactile process is based on stimulation of various types of receptors: mechanoreceptors that perceive contact, pressure, and tension; thermoreceptors that perceive heat and cold; and pain receptors. This information then reaches and is transformed by the central nervous system, including the cerebral cortex. The sensation of touch can be quite varied because it results from a complex perception of different properties of a stimulus acting on the skin and subcutaneous tissues. The perception of environmental objects by touch permits evaluations to be made concerning their shape, size, surface properties, consistency, temperature, dryness or wetness, and position and movement in space. At the cellular level, touch breaks down into several different receptor processes: there is no single morphological type of tactile cell. The sense of touch greatly broadens the organism’s impressions of its surroundings and plays an important role in its vital activity. In many lower animals the sense of touch, together with chemical sensitivity, is the principal means of perceiving the environment. To some extent, touch substitutes for the sensory organs of sight and hearing when they are injured. Touch permits blind persons to read, perform a variety of delicate manual operations, and orient themselves in space. In persons who are both blind and deaf, touch is the main source of information about the outside world and can be developed to an exceptionally high degree. The term “touch” is becoming less common because of increasing knowledge of the receptor processes’ cellular mechanisms; the mechanisms of mechanoreception, thermoreception, and pain are usually considered independently. REFERENCESGranit, R. Elektrofiziologicheskoe issledovanie retseptsii. Moscow, 1957. (Translated from English.)
Esakov, A. I., and T. M. Dmitrieva. Neirofiziologicheskie osnovy taktil’nogo vospriiatiia. Moscow, 1971.
Fiziologiia sensornykh sistem, part 2. (Ruko-vodstvopo fiziologii.) Leningrad, 1972.
Milner, P. Fiziologicheskaia psikhologiia. Moscow, 1973. Chapters 8, 10. (Translated from English.)O. B. IL’INSKII
Touch a performer’s particular manner of producing sound on the piano through various ways of pressing and striking the keys. Each pianist has his own individual touch, which depends on his physiology and artistic intent. J. Field and S. Thalberg produced a soft, “velvety” tone; S. V. Rachmaninoff and A. G. Rubinstein played with a deep, rich tone; and K. N. Igumnov elicited a tender, lyric sound. touch[təch] (physiology) The array of sensations arising from pressure sensitivity of the skin. touch1. Rugby Soccer the area outside the touchlines, beyond which the ball is out of play (esp in the phrase in touch) 2. Archaica. an official stamp on metal indicating standard purity b. the die stamp used to apply this mark 3. a scoring hit in competitive fencing 4. an estimate of the amount of gold in an alloy as obtained by use of a touchstone 5. the technique of fingering a keyboard instrument 6. the quality of the action of a keyboard instrument with regard to the relative ease with which the keys may be depressed 7. Bell-ringing any series of changes where the permutations are fewer in number than for a peal touch(1) A generic reference to touchscreen interfaces, which means using the fingers to type, tap icons and move objects on a touch-sensitive screen. See touchscreen and Touch Bar.
(2) See iPod touch.touch
touch [tuch] 1. palpation with the finger. 2. in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as providing comfort and communication through purposeful tactile contact.3. the sense by which contact of an object with the skin is recognized. Touch is actually not a single sense, but several. There are separate nerves in the skin to register heat, cold, pressure, pain, light touch, and coarse touch. These thousands of nerves are distributed unevenly over the body, so that some areas are more responsive to cold, others to pain, and others to heat or pressure. Each of these types of nerves has a different structure at the receiving end. A nerve for light touch has an elongated bulb-shaped end; one responsive to cold ends in a squat bulb; one that registers warmth ends with what look like twisted threads; and a nerve for deep pressure has an egg-shaped end. Pain receptors have no protective sheath.
If the sensory nerves were evenly distributed over the whole body, each square inch (6.5 square cm) of skin would have about 50 heat receptors, 8 for cold, 100 for touch, and 800 for pain. The sensitivity of a given spot depends in part on how thickly receptors of any one kind are clustered in that spot, and localization of a particular sensation depends on the concentration of the necessary nerve endings in the area. Light touch, pressure, and pain are sensations that can be localized quite accurately, but sensations of cold and heat are more diffuse.
The thickness of the skin in a given area and its supply of hairs also contribute to its touch sensitivity. A touch as light as one fifteen-thousandth of an ounce on the thin skin of the forehead can be felt, whereas a touch must be two and a half times as heavy to be felt on a fingertip. Hairs grow almost everywhere on the skin except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. They grow at a slant, and touch spots cluster in the skin near each of them. Even a light touch on the tip of a hair bends it back, and like a tiny lever it communicates the touch to the nerve endings.therapeutic touch in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as attuning to the universal healing field, seeking to act as an instrument for healing influence, and using the natural sensitivity of the hands to gently focus and direct the intervention process. touch (tŭch), 1. The sense by which slight contact with the skin or mucous membrane is appreciated. Synonym(s): tactile sense2. Digital examination. [Fr. toucher] touch (tŭch)n.1. The physiological sense by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body.2. Digital examination.touch (tŭch) 1. The sense by which slight contact with the skin or mucous membrane is perceived. 2. Synonym(s): palpation (1) . [Fr. toucher]touch (tŭch) 1. Sense by which slight contact with skin or mucous membrane is appreciated. 2. Digital examination. [Fr. toucher]Patient discussion about touchQ. What could make the top of your head hurt to the touch. I don't have a headache. It just hurts when I touch It only hurts on the left side.A. if it's a deep pain- it might be caused by a trauma to the bode. have you been hurt by something..? if you don't remember - it might be a memory loss from the hit to the head :)
if it's a sort of superficial pain- it might be caused of a wound there. ask someone to have a look and see if there's anything over there. it could even be a tic sitting there... More discussions about touchLegalSeeBaseFinancialSeeOnTOUCH
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