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Sounds | tah'ch |
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Rhymes | Bruch, clutch, crutch, and 8 more rhymes in ahch at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | The event of something coming in contact with the body. |
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Examples | "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air" |
Synonyms | touching |
Narrower | brush, light touch; stroke |
Broader | contact, impinging, striking |
Verbs | touch; touch; touch; touch; touch |
Meaning | The faculty of touch. |
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Examples | "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us" |
Synonyms | sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses |
Part of | somesthesia, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somatesthesia, somatatesthesis, somatosensory system, somatic sensory system, somatic sense |
Broader | exteroception; somatosense |
Adjectives | haptic, tactile, tactual |
Verbs | touch |
Meaning | A suggestion of some quality. |
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Examples | "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone" |
Synonyms | trace, ghost |
Broader | suggestion, proposition, proffer |
Meaning | A distinguishing style. |
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Examples | "this room needs a woman's touch" |
Synonyms | signature |
Narrower | common touch |
Broader | manner, mode, style, way, fashion |
Meaning | The act of putting two things together with no space between them. |
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Examples | "at his touch the room filled with lights" |
Synonyms | touching |
Narrower | contact; tap, pat, dab; hit, hitting, striking; dig, jab; kiss; kiss, buss, osculation; catch, grab, snatch, snap; handling, manipulation; fingering; grope; palpation, tactual exploration; tickle, tickling, titillation; stroke, stroking; tag; lick, lap; grazing, shaving, skimming |
Broader | deed, feat, effort, exploit |
Verbs | touch |
Meaning | A slight but appreciable addition. |
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Examples | "this dish could use a touch of garlic" |
Synonyms | hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon |
Narrower | snuff |
Broader | small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount |
Meaning | A communicative interaction. |
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Examples | "he got in touch with his colleagues" |
Synonyms | contact |
Broader | communication, communicating |
Meaning | A slight attack of illness. |
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Examples | "he has a touch of rheumatism" |
Synonyms | spot |
Broader | attack |
Meaning | The act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan). |
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Examples | "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch" |
Broader | solicitation |
Meaning | The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin. |
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Examples | "she likes the touch of silk on her skin" |
Synonyms | touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling |
Narrower | cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation |
Broader | perception |
Adjectives | haptic, tactile, tactual |
Verbs | touch |
Meaning | Deftness in handling matters. |
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Examples | "he has a master's touch" |
Narrower | finishing touch, capstone, copestone |
Broader | adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness |
Meaning | The feel of mechanical action. |
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Examples | "this piano has a wonderful touch" |
Broader | tactile property, feel |
Meaning | Make physical contact with, come in contact with. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody PP; Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" |
Entailed by | feel, finger; paw; rub |
Narrower | engage; touch; toe; pick up; strike, hit; finger, thumb; feel; palpate, feel; handle, palm; caress; hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with; brush; skim over, skim; hit; strike; kiss, buss, osculate; kiss; mouth; press; tag |
See also | touch down |
Nouns | toucher; touching; touch |
Meaning | Perceive via the tactile sense. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her" |
Entailed by | feel |
Broader | perceive, comprehend |
Nouns | touch; touch; touch, touching |
Meaning | Affect emotionally. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
Model | The bad news will touch him; The performance is likely to touch Sue |
Examples | "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" |
Synonyms | stir |
Narrower | get |
Broader | affect, impress, move, strike |
Meaning | Have to do with or be relevant to. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch on |
Narrower | focus on, center on, revolve around, revolve about, concentrate on, center; apply, hold, go for; involve, affect, regard; matter to, interest |
Similar to | allude, touch, advert |
Meaning | Be in direct physical contact with. Make contact. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Model | Our properties touch at this point; His fields touch mine at this point |
Examples | "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched" |
Synonyms | adjoin, meet, contact |
Narrower | cover, spread over; cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere; rub, fray, fret, chafe, scratch; attach; hug; border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on; surround, skirt, border; lean on, rest on, lean against |
Similar to | converge, meet |
Nouns | touch |
Meaning | Have an effect upon. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on |
Narrower | strike a blow; repercuss; tell on; redound; stimulate, excite; process, treat; hydrolize, hydrolise; tinge, color, colour, distort; queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril; hit, strike; subject; trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother; influence, act upon, work; slam-dunk |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Deal with. Usually used with a form of negation. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling" |
Broader | manage, deal, care, handle |
Meaning | Cause to be in brief contact with. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks" |
Broader | touch |
Nouns | toucher; touch; touch |
Meaning | To extend as far as. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall" |
Synonyms | reach, extend to |
Narrower | reach into |
Broader | be |
Nouns | touch |
Meaning | Be equal to in quality or ability. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues" |
Synonyms | equal, rival, match |
Broader | compete, vie, contend |
Similar to | equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate |
Meaning | Tamper with. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "Don't touch my CDs!" |
Synonyms | disturb |
Narrower | upset; violate |
Broader | change, alter, modify |
Meaning | Make a more or less disguised reference to. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | allude, advert |
Entails | denote, refer |
Broader | hint, suggest |
Similar to | refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on |
Meaning | Comprehend. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He could not touch the meaning of the poem" |
Broader | understand |
Meaning | Consume. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They touch more bread |
Examples | "She didn't touch her food all night" |
Synonyms | partake |
Narrower | receive |
Broader | consume, ingest, take in, take, have |
Meaning | Dye with a color. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | tint, tinct, bepaint, tinge |
Narrower | henna; tincture |
Broader | dye |