B1 [ I or T ] to put your hand or another part of your body lightly onto and off something or someone:
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Touching & feeling
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B2 [ I or T ] (of two or more things) to be so close together that there is no space between; to be in contact:
Connecting and combining
C2 to harm someone, or use or damage something:
Damaging and spoiling
[ T ] informal (usually used in negative sentences) to eat or drink something:
Abstaining and refraining
[ T ] to influence someone or something emotionally, or cause feelings of sympathy in someone:
Making people sad, shocked and upset
[ T ] (usually used in negative sentences) to have or reach the same standard (= level of quality) as someone or something:
Worse and worst
C2 [ S ] a small amount:
[ S ] informal To show that an illness is not too serious, you can say you have had a touch of it:
C2 [ C ] a small addition or detail that makes something better:
slightly:
Words meaning small pieces and amounts
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B2 [ U ] the ability to know what something is like by feeling it with the fingers:
used after an adjective to express how something feels when you put your hand on it:
The senses in general
B2 [ C usually singular ] a quick, light movement of one thing, especially a hand, onto and off another thing:
B1 to communicate or continue to communicate with someone by using a phone or writing to them:
B2 to stop communicating with someone, usually because they do not live near you now:
Communicating & keeping in touch
[ S or U ] an ability to do things in the stated, especially positive, way:
Skill, talent and ability
[ C or U ] in sports such as football, a player's ability to control the ball and make it do what they want, or an occasion when a player controls the ball with their foot:
Football/soccer
[ U ] the area outside either of the long edges of the space on which football and rugby are played:
Surfaces on which sports take place
C2 If you are in touch/out of touch with a subject, activity, or situation, your knowledge about it is recent/not recent:
Aware
[ I/T ] to put the fingers or hand lightly on or against something:
[ I/T ] infml If you cannot touch something, you are not allowed to have or use it:
[ I/T ] infml If you say you do not touch something, you mean that you do not drink or eat it:
[ I/T ] to be so close together that there is no space between:
[ I/T ] If one thing does not touch something similar, it is not as good as the other thing:
[ T ] to cause someone to feel sympathetic or grateful:
[ U ] a skill or special quality:
[ C ] a small amount:
[ U ] the state of being close together or in contact with someone or something
[ C/U ] the ability to know what something is like by putting your hand or fingers on it:
[ C/U ] A touch is an act of putting your hand or fingers briefly on something to operate it:
to put your fingers or hand lightly on the surface of something:
used to say that someone or something is the best of a particular kind:
to talk with someone for a short time:
[ C ] a small addition or detail which makes something better:
communicating or continuing to communicate with someone by phone, email, etc.:
aware of what is happening:
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