What does touching mean?

Definitions for touching
ˈtʌtʃ ɪŋtouch·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  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, touchingadjective

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

    "at his touch the room filled with lights"

  3. affecting, poignant, touchingadjective

    arousing affect

    "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

Wiktionary

  1. touchingadjective

    Provoking sadness and pity.

    a touching story

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Touchingadjective

    Pathetick; affecting; moving.

    Etymology: from touch.

  2. Touchingprep.

    With respect, regard, or relation to.

    Etymology: This word is originally a participle of touch.

    Touching things which belong to discipline, the church hath authority to make canons and decrees, even as we read in the apostles times it did. Richard Hooker, b. iii.

    Touching our person, seek we no revenge;
    But we our kingdom’s safety must so tender,
    Whose ruin you three sought, that to her laws
    We do deliver you. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    The heavens and the earth remained in the same state in which they were created, as touching their substance, though there was afterwards added multiplicity of perfection in respect of beauty. Walter Raleigh, Hist. of the World.

    Touching the debt, he took himself to be acquitted thereof. John Hayward.

    Socrates chose rather to die than renounce or conceal his judgment touching the unity of the Godhead. South.

ChatGPT

  1. touching

    Touching refers to coming into physical contact with something, or with a part of the body. It involves the sensation experienced when an object or person contacts the skin or when one individual or object is in direct contact with another. The term can also be used metaphorically to refer to an emotional experience or narrative that deeply affects or moves a person.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Touching

    of Touch

  2. Touchingadjective

    affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale

  3. Touching

    concerning; with respect to

  4. Touchingnoun

    the sense or act of feeling; touch

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. touching

    The state of a ship's sails when they first begin to lift or shiver with their edges in the direction of the wind. It is occasioned either by a change in the wind or in the ship's course. (See FULL AND BY.)--Luff and touch her! is the order to the helmsman to bring the vessel up, and see how near she will come to the wind, or to give facility for taking in a reef when about to lower the top-sails, or for deadening the ship's way.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of touching in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of touching in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of touching in a Sentence

  1. Douglas Reese:

    I was very honored by that and it was touching. And most of the time on that trip, I was right behind the hearse. So, I'm looking through the windshield, staring at the back of the hearse, looking at the flag, covering up the casket.

  2. Liam Brierley:

    People in these areas may also hunt bats for bushmeat, unaware of the risks of transmissible diseases which can occur through touching body fluids and raw meat of bats.

  3. Mazie Hirono:

    Every day that goes by when they're not touching base with their constituents is not a good thing.

  4. Olivier Savignac:

    I perceived this priest as someone who was good, a caring person who would not harm me, but it was when I found myself on that bed half-naked and he was touching me that I realized something was wrong....And we keep this, it’s like a growing cyst. It’s like gangrene inside the victim’s body and the victim’s psyche.

  5. Greg Maletic:

    The tactile sensation of controlling something with physical controls — and, yes, a crank — has value. It's fun and satisfying, in a way that fingers touching glass isn't.

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