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Touch   /tətʃ/   Listen
Touch

noun
1.
The event of something coming in contact with the body.  Synonym: touching.  "The cooling touch of the night air"
2.
The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands).  Synonyms: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality.
3.
A suggestion of some quality.  Synonyms: ghost, trace.  "He detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
4.
A distinguishing style.  Synonym: signature.
5.
The act of putting two things together with no space between them.  Synonym: touching.
6.
A slight but appreciable amount.  Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge.
7.
A communicative interaction.  Synonym: contact.  "He got in touch with his colleagues"
8.
A slight attack of illness.  Synonym: spot.
9.
The act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan).
10.
The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin.  Synonyms: feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation.  "The surface had a greasy feeling"
11.
Deftness in handling matters.
12.
The feel of mechanical action.
verb
(past & past part. touched; pres. part. touching)
1.
Make physical contact with, come in contact with.  "She never touched her husband"
2.
Perceive via the tactile sense.
3.
Affect emotionally.  Synonym: stir.  "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
4.
Be relevant to.  Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on.  "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
5.
Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.  Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet.  "Their hands touched" , "The wire must not contact the metal cover" , "The surfaces contact at this point"
6.
Have an effect upon.  Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on.
7.
Deal with; usually used with a form of negation.  "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
8.
Cause to be in brief contact with.
9.
To extend as far as.  Synonyms: extend to, reach.  "Can he reach?" , "The chair must not touch the wall"
10.
Be equal to in quality or ability.  Synonyms: equal, match, rival.  "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" , "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"
11.
Tamper with.  Synonym: disturb.
12.
Make a more or less disguised reference to.  Synonyms: advert, allude.
13.
Comprehend.
14.
Consume.  Synonym: partake.
15.
Color lightly.  Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint.  "The leaves were tinged red in November"



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"Touch" Quotes from Famous Books



... will give me your hands I will lower you down here. Do not be afraid—your feet will touch the bottom; and I have had some hay put there for you to sit upon. Adolphe, you had better go down first with that lantern of yours ...
— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty
... Grace. "How dare she touch you? Why, I never had a whipping in my life! I won't keep you another minute, but wait for me outside the campus when school is out to-morrow. I wish ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... carried them back to the fringe of palmetto scrub, and at the touch of sharp leaves on his back Roger leaped to one side and away from the scrub. So swiftly did he move that Garman was unable to turn with him, and Roger flung his arms about the raging enemy's middle and lifted him in the air. Then Garman laughed softly, for his paws dropped upon Roger's wrists, ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen
... my punishment. Because for one hour my self-control deserted me, when my man's blood had been crying out for three years for the touch of her—because for one little hour my hungry arms held her close to my aching heart, there is no peace. Nowhere in earth nor in heaven nor in hell is there one moment's forgetfulness. Nowhere in all God's illimitable universe is there pardon and surcease ...
— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed
... him very much, though he sometimes makes us laugh—perhaps, in part, because he makes us laugh. Externally he is a sort of human cocoanut, rough, brown, shaggy, but within he has the true milk of human kindness. Some of his qualities touch greatness. His youth was spent in stony places where strong winds blew; the trees where he grew bore thorns; the soil where he dug was full of roots. But the crop was human love. He possesses that quality, unusual in one bred exclusively in the country, of magnanimity toward the unlike. ...
— Adventures In Contentment • David Grayson


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