touch
IPA: tˈʌtʃ
noun
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
- (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
- (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- (obsolete) A brief essay.
- (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
- (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
- (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, 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.
- The children's game of tag.
- (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
- (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
- (UK, plumbing, dated) Tallow.
- Form; standard of performance.
- (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)
verb
- Primarily physical senses.
- (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
- (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- (transitive or reflexive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- (transitive) To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- (transitive) To consume, or otherwise use.
- (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
- (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- Primarily non-physical senses.
- (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- (transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.
- (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
- (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- (transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.
- (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
- (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
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Examples of "touch" in Sentences
- I feel thrilled with the touch of the fog
- The term tactile refers to the sense of touch.
- Touch is the earliest sense to develop in the fetus.
- The sense of touch is unaffected by the hallucinations.
- Touch is the earliest sense that develops in the fetus.
- The stalks are hairy and feel somewhat sticky to the touch.
- It is the senses of touch and olfaction that are most important.
- Tactile illusions are illusions that exploit the sense of touch.
- Attune your senses finely to recognize the sensuous touches of nature.
- Sensation was measured by pinwheel, light touch, and joint position sense.
- Slide 9: Word Work un+ touch+ ed = untouched - not to touch un + know +
- Why my fellow award winners and nominees have not kept in touch is beyond me.
- I gotta put my hands on those motors -- touch 'em -- I mean really _touch 'em_ -- then I know what to do! "
- It seemed to take him a long time to touch bottom, and when he had, he wondered if _touch_ was quite the word.
- By means of the nerves terminating in the touch corpuscles, the skin serves as the _organ of touch_, or feeling
- Running away without keeping in touch is something that a 19 year old fry cook at Dennys would do, but a governor?
- Seventy-one percent report that keeping in touch is easier, 53% report it improves communication, and 45% report that family relationships overall are improved with the Internet.
- "So brilliant," said she, "so short-lived, as my friend Lady Emmeline K---- once said, 'London wit is like gas, which lights at a touch, and at a touch can be extinguished;'" and Lady Davenant concluded with a compliment to him who was known to have this "_touch and go_" of good conversation to perfection.
- I don't actually follow Northern Irish news all that closely these days, but one of the ways I keep in touch is to read the weekly political update from lobbying firm Chambré Public Affairs (I still feel a bit guilty about nearly putting the author's eye out with an arrow from a toy bow when he was five and I was six).
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