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Meaning Of Touch

  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.
  2. v. t.
    To perceive by the sense of feeling.
  3. v. t.
    To come to; to reach; to attain to.
  4. v. t.
    To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  5. v. t.
    To relate to; to concern; to affect.
  6. v. t.
    To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
  7. v. t.
    To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
  8. v. t.
    To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
  9. v. t.
    To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  10. v. t.
    To infect; to affect slightly.
  11. v. t.
    To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
  12. v. t.
    To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
  13. v. t.
    To perform, as a tune; to play.
  14. v. t.
    To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  15. v. t.
    To harm, afflict, or distress.
  16. v. t.
    To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
  17. v. t.
    To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
  18. a.
    To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
  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.
  20. v. i.
    To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
  21. v. i.
    To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
  22. v. i.
    To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
  23. v.
    The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
  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.
  25. v.
    Act or power of exciting emotion.
  26. v.
    An emotion or affection.
  27. v.
    Personal reference or application.
  28. v.
    A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
  29. v.
    A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  30. v.
    Feature; lineament; trait.
  31. v.
    The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
  32. v.
    A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
  33. v.
    A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
  34. v.
    A slight and brief essay.
  35. v.
    A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  36. v.
    Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  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.
  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.
  39. n.
    That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
  40. n.
    A boys' game; tag.



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