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. |
-type (n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type (n.) The mark or impression of something |
Type (n.) Form or character impressed |
Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come |
Type (n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities |
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 |
n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
touch screen touchscreen | a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen |
type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
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 |
body type somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
Midas touch | an ability to make and manage large amounts of money |
blood group blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A type A group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B type B group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB type AB group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O type O group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type Rh-negative blood Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
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 |
type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style style of architecture type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
type specimen holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
touch typing touch system | typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys, typist can read and type at the same time |
type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type roman letters roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
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 |
type genus | (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed, it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described |
type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
type species | (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs |
Alpine glacier Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
Piedmont glacier Piedmont type of glacier | a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska, large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice |
character eccentric type case | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities), a real character, a strange character, a friendly eccentric, the capable type, a mental case |
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 |