Definitions for touch
tʌtʃtouch

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. 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"

4. touch, signaturenoun

   a distinguishing style

   "this room needs a woman's touch"

5. touch, touchingnoun

   the act of putting two things together with no space between them

   "at his touch the room filled with lights"

6. touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupconnoun

   a slight but appreciable amount

   "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

7. contact, touchnoun

   a communicative interaction

   "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"

8. touch, spotnoun

   a slight attack of illness

   "he has a touch of rheumatism"

9. touchnoun

   the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)

   "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"

10. 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"

11. touchnoun

    deftness in handling matters

    "he has a master's touch"

12. touchverb

    the feel of mechanical action

    "this piano has a wonderful touch"

13. touchverb

    make physical contact with, come in contact with

    "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"

14. touchverb

    perceive via the tactile sense

    "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"

15. touch, stirverb

    affect emotionally

    "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"

16. 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"

17. 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"

18. affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touchverb

    have an effect upon

    "Will the new rules affect me?"

19. 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"

20. touchverb

    cause to be in brief contact with

    "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"

21. reach, extend to, touchverb

    to extend as far as

    "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"

22. 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"

23. touch, disturbverb

    tamper with

    "Don't touch my CDs!"

24. allude, touch, advertverb

    make a more or less disguised reference to

    "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"

25. touchverb

    comprehend

    "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"

26. partake, touchverb

    consume

    "She didn't touch her food all night"

27. tint, tinct, tinge, touchverb

    color lightly

    "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. touchnoun

   An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

   Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.

2. touchnoun

   The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.

   With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.

3. 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.

4. touchnoun

   A distinguishing feature or characteristic.

   Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.

5. touchnoun

   A little bit; a small amount.

   Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.

6. touchnoun

   The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.

   He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch.

7. touchnoun

   A relationship of close communication or understanding.

   He promised to keep in touch while he was away.

8. touchnoun

   An ability to perform a task

   I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch.

9. touchverb

   Primarily physical senses.

10. touchverb

    Primarily non-physical senses.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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

2. Touchverb

   to perceive by the sense of feeling

3. Touchverb

   to come to; to reach; to attain to

4. Touchverb

   to try; to prove, as with a touchstone

5. Touchverb

   to relate to; to concern; to affect

6. Touchverb

   to handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of

7. Touchverb

   to meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books

8. Touchverb

   to affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften

9. Touchverb

   to mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush

10. Touchverb

    to infect; to affect slightly

11. Touchverb

    to make an impression on; to have effect upon

12. Touchverb

    to strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music

13. Touchverb

    to perform, as a tune; to play

14. Touchverb

    to influence by impulse; to impel forcibly

15. Touchverb

    to harm, afflict, or distress

16. Touchverb

    to affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle

17. Touchverb

    to be tangent to. See Tangent, a

18. Touchadjective

    to lay a hand upon for curing disease

19. 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

20. Touchverb

    to fasten; to take effect; to make impression

21. Touchverb

    to treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon

22. Touchverb

    to be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes

23. Touch

    the act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact

24. 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

25. Touch

    act or power of exciting emotion

26. Touch

    an emotion or affection

27. Touch

    personal reference or application

28. Touch

    a stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof

29. Touch

    a single stroke on a drawing or a picture

30. Touch

    feature; lineament; trait

31. Touch

    the act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes

32. Touch

    a small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash

33. Touch

    a hint; a suggestion; slight notice

34. Touch

    a slight and brief essay

35. Touch

    a touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone

36. Touch

    hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality

37. 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

38. 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

39. Touchnoun

    that part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side

40. Touchnoun

    a boys' game; tag

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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

2. touchverb

   Edmonton, Alberta, Canada MC. The MC half of The Representatives.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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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1. touch

   Song lyrics by touch -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by touch on the Lyrics.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Adeptness
   • Attack
   • Change
   • Color
   • Communication
   • Compete
   • Consume
   • Contact
   • Hint
   • Manage
   • Manner
   • Move
   • Perceive
   • Small Indefinite Quantity
   • Solicitation
   • Suggestion
   • Touch
   • Understand

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2521

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1858

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Nouns Frequency: #1011

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'touch' in Verbs Frequency: #300

Anagrams for touch »

1. couth

How to pronounce touch?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say touch in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of touch in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of touch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of touch in a Sentence

1. Lee Fleisher:

   You can decrease the need for some of these drugs just by talking to patients and providing light touch and comfort.

2. Joshua Black:

   It started several years ago back in 2018 when we went to interview him about another homicide, which he did not take credit for because he had nothing to do with it. And then, after that, it was just keeping in touch with him over the course of the next several years, just keeping a rapport with him.

3. Melody Gardot:

   We all worry about contagion now, but a smile is one of the contagious issues that I would like to have, it can make us feel a little more connected despite what is going on. We cannot touch each other, we cannot travel, this is kind of a postcard.

4. Sarah Palin:

   He got a touch of that Potomac fever there in D.C. Maybe he's been -- I don't know -- maybe he's been hanging out in a cornfield too long huffing ethanol or something.

5. Blake Snell:

   They’re not going to find sticky stuff on me, they’re just going to find sweat. If they want to touch that, they’re more than welcome to.

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