Touch
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Touch
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1 v. t.
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.
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2 v. t.
To perceive by the sense of feeling.
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3 v. t.
To come to; to reach; to attain to.
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4 v. t.
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
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5 v. t.
To relate to; to concern; to affect.
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6 v. t.
To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
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7 v. t.
To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
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8 v. t.
To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
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9 v. t.
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
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10 v. t.
To infect; to affect slightly.
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11 v. t.
To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
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12 v. t.
To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
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13 v. t.
To perform, as a tune; to play.
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14 v. t.
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
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15 v. t.
To harm, afflict, or distress.
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16 v. t.
To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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17 v. t.
To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
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18 a.
To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
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19 v. i.
To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
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20 v. i.
To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
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21 v. i.
To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
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22 v. i.
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
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23 v.
The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
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24 v.
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.
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25 v.
Act or power of exciting emotion.
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26 v.
An emotion or affection.
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27 v.
Personal reference or application.
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28 v.
A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
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29 v.
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
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30 v.
Feature; lineament; trait.
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31 v.
The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
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32 v.
A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
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33 v.
A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
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34 v.
A slight and brief essay.
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35 v.
A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
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36 v.
Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
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37 v.
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.
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38 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); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
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39 n.
That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
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40 n.
A boys' game; tag.
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41 v. t.
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.
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42 v. t.
To perceive by the sense of feeling.
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43 v. t.
To come to; to reach; to attain to.
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44 v. t.
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
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45 v. t.
To relate to; to concern; to affect.
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46 v. t.
To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
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47 v. t.
To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
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48 v. t.
To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
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49 v. t.
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
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50 v. t.
To infect; to affect slightly.
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51 v. t.
To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
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52 v. t.
To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
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53 v. t.
To perform, as a tune; to play.
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54 v. t.
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
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55 v. t.
To harm, afflict, or distress.
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56 v. t.
To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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57 v. t.
To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
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58 a.
To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
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59 v. i.
To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
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60 v. i.
To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.