What does touch mean?
Definitions for touch
tʌtʃtouch
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word touch.
Princeton's WordNet
touch, touchingnoun
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"
touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous sensesnoun
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"
touch, trace, ghostnoun
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, signaturenoun
a distinguishing style
"this room needs a woman's touch"
touch, touchingnoun
the act of putting two things together with no space between them
"at his touch the room filled with lights"
touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupconnoun
a slight but appreciable amount
"this dish could use a touch of garlic"
contact, touchnoun
a communicative interaction
"the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
touch, spotnoun
a slight attack of illness
"he has a touch of rheumatism"
touchnoun
the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
"he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"
touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feelingnoun
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
"she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
touchnoun
deftness in handling matters
"he has a master's touch"
touchverb
the feel of mechanical action
"this piano has a wonderful touch"
touchverb
make physical contact with, come in contact with
"Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
touchverb
perceive via the tactile sense
"Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
touch, stirverb
affect emotionally
"A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe withverb
be relevant to
"There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
touch, adjoin, meet, contactverb
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"
affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touchverb
have an effect upon
"Will the new rules affect me?"
touchverb
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"
touchverb
cause to be in brief contact with
"He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
reach, extend to, touchverb
to extend as far as
"The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"
equal, touch, rival, matchverb
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"
touch, disturbverb
tamper with
"Don't touch my CDs!"
allude, touch, advertverb
make a more or less disguised reference to
"He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
touchverb
comprehend
"He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
partake, touchverb
consume
"She didn't touch her food all night"
tint, tinct, tinge, touchverb
color lightly
"her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"
Wiktionary
touchnoun
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.
touchnoun
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.
touchnoun
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.
touchnoun
A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.
touchnoun
A little bit; a small amount.
Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.
touchnoun
The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch.
touchnoun
A relationship of close communication or understanding.
He promised to keep in touch while he was away.
touchnoun
An ability to perform a task
I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch.
touchverb
Primarily physical senses.
touchverb
Primarily non-physical senses.
Webster Dictionary
Touchverb
to come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on
Touchverb
to perceive by the sense of feeling
Touchverb
to come to; to reach; to attain to
Touchverb
to try; to prove, as with a touchstone
Touchverb
to relate to; to concern; to affect
Touchverb
to handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of
Touchverb
to meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books
Touchverb
to affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften
Touchverb
to mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush
Touchverb
to infect; to affect slightly
Touchverb
to make an impression on; to have effect upon
Touchverb
to strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music
Touchverb
to perform, as a tune; to play
Touchverb
to influence by impulse; to impel forcibly
Touchverb
to harm, afflict, or distress
Touchverb
to affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle
Touchverb
to be tangent to. See Tangent, a
Touchadjective
to lay a hand upon for curing disease
Touchverb
to be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points
Touchverb
to fasten; to take effect; to make impression
Touchverb
to treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon
Touchverb
to be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes
Touch
the act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact
Touch
the sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile
Touch
act or power of exciting emotion
Touch
an emotion or affection
Touch
personal reference or application
Touch
a stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof
Touch
a single stroke on a drawing or a picture
Touch
feature; lineament; trait
Touch
the act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes
Touch
a small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash
Touch
a hint; a suggestion; slight notice
Touch
a slight and brief essay
Touch
a touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone
Touch
hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality
Touch
the particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch
Touch
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); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters
Touchnoun
that part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side
Touchnoun
a boys' game; tag
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Touch
tuch, v.t. to come in contact with: to perceive by feeling: to reach: to relate to: to handle or treat gently or slightly, as in 'to touch the hat,' &c.: to take, taste: to move or soften: to influence: to move to pity: to taint: (slang) to cheat: to lay the hand upon for the purpose of curing scrofula or king's evil—a practice that ceased only with the accession of the House of Brunswick.—v.i. to be in contact with: to make a passing call: to speak of anything slightly: (prov.) to salute by touching the cap.—n. act of touching: a movement on a musical instrument, skill or nicety in such, a musical note or strain: any impression conveyed by contact, a hint, a slight sound: a stroke with a pen, brush, &c.: a tinge, smack, trace, a slight degree of a thing: sense of feeling, contact, close sympathy, harmony: peculiar or characteristic manner: a style of anything at a certain expenditure: a touchstone, test.—adj. Touch′able, capable of being touched.—n. Touch′ableness, the state or quality of being touchable.—adj. Touch′-and-go, of uncertain issue, ticklish, difficult.—ns. Touch′-back, the act of touching the football to the ground behind the player's own goal when it has been kicked by an opponent; Touch′-box, a box containing tinder, which used to be carried by soldiers armed with matchlocks; Touch′-down, the touching to the ground of a football by a player behind the opponents' goal; Touch′er; Touch′-hole, the small hole of a cannon through which the fire is communicated to the charge.—adv. Touch′ily, in a touchy manner: peevishly.—n. Touch′iness, the quality of being touchy: peevishness: irritability.—adj. Touch′ing, affecting: moving: pathetic.—prep. concerning: with regard to.—adv. Touch′ingly.—ns. Touch′ingness; Touch′-me-not, a plant of genus Impatiens: lupus; Touch′-nee′dle, a small bar or needle of gold for testing articles of the same metal by comparing the streaks they make on a touchstone with those made by the needle; Touch′-pā′per, paper steeped in saltpetre for firing a train of powder, &c.; Touch′piece, a coin or medal formerly given by English sovereigns to those whom they touched for the cure of the king's evil; Touch′stone, a kind of compact basalt or stone for testing gold or silver by the streak of the touch-needle: any test; Touch′wood, some soft combustible material, as amadou, used as tinder.—adj. Touch′y, irritable: peevish.—Touch up, to improve by a series of small touches, to elaborate, embellish.—A near touch, a close shave. [Fr. toucher—from Old High Ger. zucchen (Ger. zucken), to move, to draw.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Touch
Sensation of making physical contact with objects, animate or inanimate. Tactile stimuli are detected by MECHANORECEPTORS in the skin and mucous membranes.
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
Touch
A term applied to methods of magnetization, as "single touch," "double touch," or "separate touch," indicating how the poles of the inducing magnet or magnets are applied to the bar to be magnetized. Under the titles of Magnetization the different methods are described.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
TOUCH
A habit common to the impecunious, causing in its victim a feeling of faintness, followed by a chill or a sense of loss.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
touch
In ship-building, the broadest part of a plank worked top-and-butt. Also, the angles of the stern-timbers at the counters. Also, keeping touch is fulfilling the terms of an agreement--speaking of the faith between seamen and their employers.
Rap Dictionary
touchverb
To hurt or kill. When commiting violence you have to touch the victim somehow. I'm on the Greyhound 'bout to move these birds. And if these kids don't let me do my thing, I'm going out there touching everything. -- Tony Yayo
touchverb
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada MC. The MC half of The Representatives.
Editors Contribution
touch
To feel or sense.
She loves to touch her husband every evening as she comes into the house, to show her love in a gentle way.
Submitted by MaryC on February 5, 2020
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Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2521
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1858
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Nouns Frequency: #1011
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Verbs Frequency: #300
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of touch in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of touch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of touch in a Sentence
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
When we met it was not a date and not once did I touch her.
If you listen you will hear If you look you will see If you touch you will feel If you try you will be.
Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.
I shoot just one moment at a time. ... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception, it's often a moment when (the dancers are) falling, or they're going up, or two people are about to touch or something like that. Those moments are more expressive than the typical dance photo of someone in a perfect position on the ground or in the air.
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Translations for touch
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- يلمس, لمس, لمس. اتصال. صلةArabic
- tocarCatalan, Valencian
- dotknout, dotýkat, dotek, hmat, dotykCzech
- røre, bevæge, berøreDanish
- berühren, Berührung, Tasten, SpurGerman
- αγγίζω, συγκινώ, αφή, επαφήGreek
- kortuŝi, tuŝiEsperanto
- tocar, toqueSpanish
- ukimenBasque
- پرماسیدن, لمس کردن, زدنPersian
- koskea, koskettaa, kosketella, käsikopelo, kosketus, tatsi, ominaispiirre, ulkopuoli, ote, tuntuma, tuntoaisti, tyyli, piirre, hiven, hitunen, aavistus, yhteys, kontaktiFinnish
- toucherFrench
- bain le, bain doIrish
- tocarGalician
- נָגַע, ריגשHebrew
- छूनाHindi
- érint, meghat, megindít, megérint, hozzányúl, érintés, tapintás, jellegzetesség, kontakt, kevés, partvonalHungarian
- դիպչելArmenian
- sentuh, raba, singgungIndonesian
- tusharIdo
- snertaIcelandic
- commuovere, toccare, tattoItalian
- 接触する, 触る, 触れる, タッチ, 触覚, 感触, 接触Japanese
- 닿다, 두드리다, 만지다Korean
- taxare, toccare, tango, taxo, tangere, tangeLatin
- liesti, paliestiLithuanian
- skart, aizskartLatvian
- whakapāMāori
- menyentuhMalay
- ထိBurmese
- aanraken, beroeren, roeren, raken, ontroeren, touché, detail, tikjeDutch
- berøre, røre, kontakt, berøring, følelseNorwegian
- tocar, tocharOccitan
- dotykać, dotknąć, wzruszać, wzruszyć, poruszać, poruszyć, dotyk, szczegół, odrobina, dotknięcie, podejście, styl, kontaktPolish
- tocar, toque, contatoPortuguese
- llamkhayQuechua
- tuccar, tucher, tocker, tutgar, tutgear, tutgierRomansh
- atinge, emoționaRomanian
- трогать, дотрагиваться, дотронуться, волновать, взволновать, тронуть, касаться, коснуться, растрогать, осязание, штрих, контакт, прикосновение, касание, стиль, манера, общениеRussian
- apodhicare, apoddicare, apodighare, podhicare, tocare, apodhigai, togare, tocae, tocaiSardinian
- dírati, tàknutiSerbo-Croatian
- beröra, röra, känsel, detalj, känsla för detaljer, beröring, liten bit, känsla, aning, smula, kontaktSwedish
- dara, daranaSwahili
- தொடுதல்Tamil
- స్పర్శ, తాకు, స్పర్శించు, ముట్టుకొనుTelugu
- แตะThai
- dokunmak, dokunmaTurkish
- доторкнутися, зворушуватися, доторкатисяUkrainian
- چھوناUrdu
- đến, sờ, chạm, đạt tới, xúc giácVietnamese
- פאַרבינדןYiddish
- 觸摸Chinese
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