Touch

Verb

 * 1) Primarily physical senses.
 * 2)  To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
 * 3)  To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
 * 4)  To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
 * 5)  To make physical contact with a thing.
 * 6)  To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
 * 7)  To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
 * 8)  To consume, or otherwise use.
 * 9)  Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
 * 10)  To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
 * 11) Primarily non-physical senses.
 * 12)  To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
 * 13)  To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.
 * 14)  To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
 * 15)  To concern, to have a bearing on.
 * 16)  To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
 * 17)  To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.
 * 18)  To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
 * 19)  To steal, or obtain money; to borrow money from.
 * 20)  To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane.
 * 21)  To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.

Noun

 * 1) An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
 * 2) The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
 * 3) The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
 * 4) A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
 * 5) A little bit; a small amount.
 * 6) The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
 * 7) A relationship of close communication or understanding.

Adjectives for Touch
soft; pleading; composing; distinctive; fairy; casual; impassioned; feather-like; caustic; felicitous; innumerable (plural); vivifying; continuous; magic; daughterly; hasty; corroding; exciting; nurse-like; unwonted; polluting; passing; consoling; mortal; mysterious; sophisticated; chilling; dramatic; flexible; quivering; aristocratic; truthful; celestial; pardonable; luxurious; masterly; satiric; humorous; soothing; alien; simplifying; lively; mellow; sensitive; couturier; musical; demoralizing; clinging; crowning; icy; dreamy; uncivil; desperate; glowing; unfelt; ethereal; ironical; sweetest;  inspiriting; fascinating; facile; convincing; tainting; finishing; summery; immaculate; all-pervading; immediate; caressing; arch; slight; incautious; simple; deathly; discriminative; abominable; skillful; beastly; plastic; innocent; vulgar; sparkling; superficial; faultless; final; classic; rare; grotesque; lyrical; inimitable; passionate; sophisticated; trial-fire; starry;

Verbs for Touch
avert—; avoid—; evade—; sense—; sensitize—; —benumbs; —brushes; —chills; — comforts; —contaminates; —defiles; —degrades; —electrifies; —excites; —grazes; —impassions; —petrifies; —pollutes; —reveals; —revolts; —tickles.

Adverbs for Touch
delicately; affectionately; lingeringly; reverently; piquantly; inadequately; profoundly; confidingly; genuinely; inexpressibly; angelically; timidly; respectfully; fitfully; cautiously.

Thesaurus
contact, contingence, conversation, converse, correspond, correspond to, correspondence, cover, dab, dash, deal with, dealing, dealings, decorative composition, decorative style, deftness, demilegato, design, detail, detonate, dexterity, dip, disturb, ditto, draw, drink, drop, eat, employ, enhance, equal, even, even off, examine, exchange, exchange colors, excite, execution, experience, expertise, expression, facility, feel, feel of, feeling, figure, fillip, finger, fingering, fire, five senses, flag, flag down, flair, flare, flash, flick, flip, flirt, float a loan, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, foil, foment, fondle, foreground detail, form, genius, get, get a loan, get on credit, get to, gift, give a signal, give rise to, give the nod, glance, gleam, glissando, go deep, go light, go through one, gong buoy, graze, green light, grieve, hail, hail and speak, half-mast, hand, handle, hang, have connection with, hear, hearing, heliograph, high sign, hint, hit, hit one for, hit up, hoist a banner, idea, ignite, impassion, impinge, impingement, impingence, implication, implied meaning, import, impress, inference, influence, information, infusion, initiate, inkling, innuendo, inspect, inspire, instigate, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interest, interfere with, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, interplay, intimation, intonation, investigate, involve, ironic suggestion, join, jot, junction, keep pace with, kick, kiss, knack, knot, land, larceny, leer, legato, liaise with, lick, lift, light, line, linguistic intercourse, link with, look, make a sign, make use of, manner, march, marker beacon, match, match up with, meaning, measure up, measure up to, meddle with, meet, melt, melt the heart, mention, message, metaphorical sense, method, mezzo staccato, mooch, motif, move, movement, music-making, national style, negotiate a loan, neighbor, nod, nuance, nudge, occult meaning, odor, operation, ornamental motif, osculate, osculation, overtone, palm, palpate, palpation, panhandle, parachute flare, parallel, parlando, partake of, pass the hat, pat, patch up, pattern, paw, pawn, peck, penetrate, perceive, performance, period style, pertain to, phonism, photism, pianism, pick, pierce, pilot flag, pinch, pizzicato, ply, poke, poke at, police whistle, presumption, presupposition, probe, prod, provoke, purloining, put, put to use, quarantine flag, quicken, radio beacon, raise, raise a cry, raise money, rap, reach, receptor, red flag, red light, refer to, regard, relate to, rendering, rendition, renovate, repeated figure, repercussion, reply, respect, respond, respond to stimuli, response, responsiveness, retouch, rival, rocket, rub, rubato, run abreast, run into debt, run to, sadden, sailing aid, salute, sauce, scent, scintilla, scrape, scrounge, scrutinize, seasoning, see, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sense, sense organ, senses, sensillum, sensorium, sensory organ, set, set in motion, set off, setting, shade, shadow, shave, sideswipe, sight, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, signature, sip, sixth sense, skill, skim, skirt, slur, smack, smart, smattering, smell, snap, social intercourse, soften, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, soupcon, spar buoy, spark, speak, speaking, speck, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, spiccato, spice, spot, sprinkling, spruce up, squeak by, staccato, stack up with, start, steal, stealage, stealing, stimulate, sting, stir, stop light, streak, strike, stroke, style, subsense, subsidiary sense, suggestion, sup, supposition, suspicion, sway, symbolism, synesthesia, tactility, taction, taint, take, take advantage of, talent, talking, tangency, tap, taste, technique, telepathy, tempering, tentative contact, texture, the nod, the wink, theme, thievery, thieving, thought, thumb, tickle, tie, tie in with, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tip, titivate, touch a chord, touch down, touch off, touch on, touch up, touch upon, touching, toy with, trace, traffic, traffic light, traffic signal, treat of, trick, trigger, truck, twiddle, two-way communication, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, unfurl a flag, use, verge, verge on, vestige, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, way, whiff, whisk, white flag, wield, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag, ESP, Roman candle, ability, abut, access, adjoin, adroitness, affect, aid to navigation, alarm, alight, allegory, allude to, allusion, amber light, amount to, answer, answer to, appertain to, apply, apply to, apprehend, approach, arcane meaning, arouse, art, assumption, attouchement, background, background detail, balance, balefire, be aware of, be conscious of, be sensible of, beacon, beacon fire, beak, bear on, bear upon, beat the drum, beautify, beg, begin, bell, bell buoy, belong to, bit, blinker, blow, blue peter, border, borrow, break even, bring in, bring up, brush, brush by, bum, bunt, buoy, butt, cadge, cantando, capability, caress, carry, cast, cause, caution light, characteristic, chromesthesia, chuck, color hearing, coloration, coloring, come home to, come in contact, come near, come to, come together, come up to, commerce, communicate, communication, communion, compare with, concern, congress, connect, connection, connotation, consume,

Etymology
From touchen:, tochen:, from  tochier: (modern  toucher:; compare  doublet toquer:), from  *undefined:, from  *undefined:, from, from. Influenced by similar forms from and. Cognate with zochhon:,  tocken:, tucken:,  tucian:, tucian:. Compare also 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽:,  taka:,  tacan:. More at tuck, take.

Derived terms

 * touch a nerve
 * touch base
 * touch bottom


 * touch wood
 * touch down
 * touch off


 * touch on
 * touch up


 * in touch
 * light touch
 * lose one's touch
 * lose touch


 * out of touch
 * soft touch
 * touch football
 * touch-kick


 * touchless
 * touch oneself
 * touch-paper
 * touch-type

Verb

 * Arabic: لمس
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  觸摸,  触摸,  ,  ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , kosketella
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: αγγίζω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , hozzányúl
 * Ido: tushar
 * Indonesian: sentuh, raba, singgung
 * Irish: bain do, bain le
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: skart
 * Lithuanian: liesti, paliesti
 * Norwegian: berøre
 * Persian: پرماسیدن,
 * Polish: dotykać, dotknąć
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian: трогать, касаться ,  дотрагиваться ,  тронуть ,  коснуться ,  дотронуться
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: అంటుకొను (aMTukonu), తాకు (taaku), ముట్టుకొను (muTTukonu)
 * Thai: แตะ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: доторкатися (dotorkátysja), доторкнутися (dotorknútysja)
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: đạt tới,,  sờ,  chạm


 * Croatian:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: kortuŝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hebrew: ריגש
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Korean:, 두드리다 (dudeurida)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, ,


 * Latvian: aizskart
 * Norwegian: berøre,
 * Polish: wzruszać, wzruszyć ''
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: волновать, взволновать , , трогать ,  тронуть
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తాకు (taaku), స్పర్శించు (sparSiMchu)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зворушуватися (zvorúšuvatysja)

Noun

 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: Berührung
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, tapintás
 * Japanese:, タッチ
 * Norwegian: berøring


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Basque: ukimen
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ; käsikopelo
 * German:
 * Greek: αφή (afí)
 * Hungarian: tapintás
 * Japanese: 触覚


 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: känsel


 * Dutch: touché
 * Finnish: kosketus, tyyli; tatsi
 * Japanese: タッチ
 * Polish: podejście, styl


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: стиль (stil’), манера (man'éra) , штрих (štriχ)
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ominaispiirre,
 * Hungarian: jellegzetesség
 * Japanese:
 * Polish: szczegół


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: штрих (štriχ)
 * Swedish:, känsla för detaljer


 * Dutch: tikje
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: odrobina
 * Swedish:, , liten bit


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
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 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * couth