Touch
(v. t.) To come in contact with |
Touch
(v. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling. |
Touch
(v. t.) To come to |
Touch
(v. t.) To try |
Touch
(v. t.) To relate to |
Touch
(v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with |
Touch
(v. t.) To meddle or interfere with |
Touch
(v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of |
Touch
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches |
Touch
(v. t.) To infect |
Touch
(v. t.) To make an impression on |
Touch
(v. t.) To strike |
Touch
(v. t.) To perform, as a tune |
Touch
(v. t.) To influence by impulse |
Touch
(v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress. |
Touch
(v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree |
Touch
(v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. |
Touch
(a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease. |
Touch
(v. i.) To be in contact |
Touch
(v. i.) To fasten |
Touch
(v. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner |
Touch
(v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. |
Touch
(v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched |
Touch
(v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized |
Touch
(v.) Act or power of exciting emotion. |
Touch
(v.) An emotion or affection. |
Touch
(v.) Personal reference or application. |
Touch
(v.) A stroke |
Touch
(v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. |
Touch
(v.) Feature |
Touch
(v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument |
Touch
(v.) A small quantity intermixed |
Touch
(v.) A hint |
Touch
(v.) A slight and brief essay. |
Touch
(v.) A touchstone |
Touch
(v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard |
Touch
(v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers |
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) |
Touch
(n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. |
Touch
(n.) A boys' game |
Touch-box
(n.) A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match. |
Touch-me-not
(n.) See Impatiens. |
Touch-me-not
(n.) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber. |
Touch-needle
(n.) A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone. |
Touch-paper
(n.) Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like. |
touch
touching | the act of putting two things together with no space between them, at his touch the room filled with lights |
| touch football | a version of American football in which the ball carrier is touched rather than tackled |
touch screen
touchscreen | a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen |
| touch signature | a distinguishing style, this room needs a woman's touch |
| common touch | the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them) |
| touch | the feel of mechanical action, this piano has a wonderful touch |
| Midas touch | an ability to make and manage large amounts of money |
| touch | deftness in handling matters, he has a master's touch |
finishing touch
capstone
copestone | a final touch, a crowning achievement, a culmination |
touch sense of touch
skin senses
touch modality
cutaneous senses | 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 |
tactual sensation tactility
touch perception
skin perceptiveness | the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain |
touch touch sensation
tactual sensation
tactile sensation
feeling | the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin, she likes the touch of silk on her skin, the surface had a greasy feeling |
touch typing
touch system | typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys, typist can read and type at the same time |
| touch trace ghost | a suggestion of some quality, there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone, he detected a ghost of a smile on her face |
| touch | the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan), he watched the beggar trying to make a touch |
| contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
touch
touching | 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 |
brush
light touch | momentary contact |
chump
fool gull
mark
patsy
fall guy
sucker soft touch
mug | a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of |
| touch-typist | a skilled typist who can type a document without looking at the keyboard |
sensitive plant touch-me-not shame plant
live-and-die
humble plant
action plant
Mimosa pudica | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia, heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled |
squirting cucumber
exploding cucumber
touch-me-not Ecballium elaterium | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched |
jewelweed
lady's earrings
orange balsam
celandine touch-me-not Impatiens capensis | North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers, grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil |
touch
hint
tinge
mite
pinch
jot
speck
soupcon | a slight but appreciable amount, this dish could use a touch of garlic |
touch
spot | a slight attack of illness, he has a touch of rheumatism |
affect
impact
bear upon
bear on
touch on touch | have an effect upon, Will the new rules affect me? |
touch up
retouch | alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance, This photograph has been retouched! |
repair
mend
fix bushel
doctor furbish up
restore touch on | restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken, She repaired her TV set, Repair my shoes please |
tint
tinct
tinge
touch | color lightly, her greying hair was tinged blond, the leaves were tinged red in November |
| touch | comprehend, He could not touch the meaning of the poem |
| touch-type | type without looking at the keyboard |
| touch on | refer to or discuss briefly |
allude
touch advert | make a more or less disguised reference to, He alluded to the problem but did not mention it |
| partake d touch | consume, She didn't touch her food all night |
touch adjoin meet
contact | 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 |
| touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with, Touch the stone for good luck, She never touched her husband |
| touch | cause to be in brief contact with, He touched his toes to the horse's flanks |
| touch disturb | tamper with, Don't touch my CDs! |
trip
actuate
trigger
activate
set off
spark off
spark
trigger off
touch off | put in motion or move to act, trigger a reaction, actuate the circuits |
| strike a chord touch a chord | evoke a reaction, response, or emotion, this writer strikes a chord with young women, The storyteller touched a chord |
touch
stir | affect emotionally, A stirring movie, I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy |
| touch down | come or bring (a plane) to a landing, the plane touched down at noon |
| touch | perceive via the tactile sense, Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her |
get in touch
touch base
connect | establish communication with someone, did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin? |
| 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 |
equal touch rival
match | 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 |
refer
pertain relate
concern
come to bear on
touch
touch on
have-to doe with | be relevant to, There were lots of questions referring to her talk, My remark pertained to your earlier comments |
reach
extend to
touch | to extend as far as, The sunlight reached the wall, Can he reach? The chair must not touch the wall |
parlous
perilous
precarious
touch-and-go | fraught with danger, dangerous waters, a parlous journey on stormy seas, a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat, the precarious life of an undersea diver, dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery |