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Meaning touch meaning

What does touch mean?
Definitions in simple English

touch Verb

— If you touch something, you feel it with your hand. Don't touch the oven -- it's hot and you will get a burn. — If you touch something, you move so near to it that there is no space between you and it.

touch

— verb make physical contact with, come in contact with Touch the stone for good luck She never touched her husband — noun (= touching) 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 — verb perceive via the tactile sense Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her — verb (= stir) affect emotionally A stirring movie I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy — verb (= contact) be in direct physical contact with; make contact The two buildings touch Their hands touched The wire must not contact the metal cover The surfaces contact at this point — noun the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us — verb (= affect) have an effect upon Will the new rules affect me? — verb (= refer, pertain) be relevant to There were lots of questions referring to her talk My remark pertained to your earlier comments — verb deal with; usually used with a form of negation I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole The local Mafia won't touch gambling — verb cause to be in brief contact with He touched his toes to the horse's flanks — noun a distinguishing style this room needs a woman's touch — noun (= ghost) a suggestion of some quality there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone he detected a ghost of a smile on her face — noun (= touching) the act of putting two things together with no space between them at his touch the room filled with lights — noun a slight but appreciable amount this dish could use a touch of garlic — verb tamper with Don't touch my CDs! — verb comprehend He could not touch the meaning of the poem — verb (= allude) make a more or less disguised reference to He alluded to the problem but did not mention it — verb (= equal, rival, match) be equal to in quality or ability Nothing can rival cotton for durability Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents — noun (= contact) a communicative interaction the pilot made contact with the base he got in touch with his colleagues — verb (= reach) to extend as far as The sunlight reached the wall Can he reach? The chair must not touch the wall — noun the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan) he watched the beggar trying to make a touch — noun the feel of mechanical action this piano has a wonderful touch — noun deftness in handling matters he has a master's touch — noun (= feeling) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin she likes the touch of silk on her skin the surface had a greasy feeling — noun a slight attack of illness he has a touch of rheumatism — verb consume She didn't touch her food all night — verb (= tinge) color lightly her greying hair was tinged blond the leaves were tinged red in November

Synonyms touch synonyms

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touch English » English

feel contact move finger hit handle grope hold affect stroke sense reach adjoin touching touch on feeling trace tinge strike palpate catch bump sense of touch meet grab concern bear on take stir rub influence impress hint grasp get fumble fondle caress tint spot smell refer poke perceive pat molest ghost fit exactly connection brush against

Topics touch topics

What do people use touch to talk about?
States Location Here, there

Touching, contact
Person Sense, perceive

Sense of touch
Language and thought

Emotion
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Contact
Social behavior Social activity Music

Play music
Physical actions Move something Handle something

Touch
Person Healthy

Disease
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Mention
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Chance

Lucky
States Quantity Plural

Few, little
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Uncertain

Conjugation touch conjugation

How do you conjugate touch?

touch · verb

Examples touch examples

How do I use touch in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must not touch the paintings.
You mustn't touch it.
You should keep in touch with Mr Smith.
How can I get in touch with you?
Don't touch it.
Can I touch it?
Hey, don't touch anything!
Don't you dare touch anything.
Don't touch me, you pig!
That's very hot. Don't touch it.
Don't touch my car.
I cannot touch-type.
You can get in touch with him at his home tonight.
You have only to touch the button.
A bear will not touch a dead body.
I'll get in touch with you soon.
In case of an emergency, get in touch with my agent.
Out of sight out of mind. When you're separated you lose touch.
I thought it would be a good idea to get back in touch with Japanese culture and history.
When you return to your company, don't forget to keep in touch with me.
Don't touch the flowers.
Be sure to get in touch with me, if there is anything I can do for you.
I felt something touch my feet.
I couldn't get in touch with him.
If I knew his address, I would get in touch with him right away.
If there's anything urgent, you can get in touch with me.
Please keep in touch.

Movie subtitles

I won't let your hands touch water.
A touch more rock 'n' roll.
Who would have thought I'd have this magic touch?
By the power of God Almighty touch me NOT!
And don't touch me!
Don't you fucking touch me again.
The last thing she remembers is getting in a fight with you, so you can't come back here and tell me that you didn't touch her!
If it wasn't done by the office, who would dare to touch that crime scene?
What time do you want to pick me up? Uh. Okay, so I've been up all night and I hung the fish, painted the walls, put up the mural, cleaned out the fridge, redid the grout in the bathroom and for the finishing touch.
I did not touch the body.
Well, firstly, Speigleman would never touch a meat pie, and secondly, we can corroborate both of them as being present when Evan, or whoever was pretending to be Evan, dismounted the float.
Nice touch.
Rhoda, I'm taking Philip home today, but I'd like to keep in touch.
Has she not been in touch herself?
He's lost the touch!
That's fine, but I don't want him to touch my daughter.
I don't want him to touch her.
I need to touch you.
My dear Christine You are in no peril as long as you do not touch my mask.
Don't touch!
What a grand feeling, when your lips touch mine. That certain something comes stealing up and down my spine.
When we touch, close in your arms you hold me. I forget all that my mother told me.
I never touch the stuff.
You mustn't touch me.
Why, it looks as if you could reach out and touch them.
I shall barely touch them.
No, Juan, you mustn't touch me.
Suspended on the spot, get sent home, your parents freak out, and that's why I won't let anybody in my crew touch the stuff.
Oh, come on, J.J., you know I wouldn't touch this shit.
How you gonna get in touch with them?
Do you have any idea how we might get in touch with someone from the British Government?
How do we get in touch with you?
How do we keep in touch?
Esther. Don't you fucking touch me again.
If you still plan to threaten the Princess-- A disabled person and furthermore, one with a faint spirit, why would I want to touch her? But, compared to the Princess, shouldn't you worry about yourself?
Magistrate, we were just. You're going to pretend you didn't do that? If it wasn't done by the office, who would dare to touch that crime scene?
Okay, so I've been up all night and I hung the fish, painted the walls, put up the mural, cleaned out the fridge, redid the grout in the bathroom and for the finishing touch.
HEATHER: Dude, just don't touch anything.

News and current affairs

In short, Germany during the World Cup is reminiscent of a Shakespearean midsummer night's dream, with a touch of Woodstock to boot.
The evil outside world should not be able to touch the Land of the Free.
But now America's debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch-and-go negotiations behind closed doors.
But that is the one item most Republicans won't touch.
The Bank's activities currently touch on all of these areas, but it fails to lead effectively on any of them.
It also threatens to touch off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
But member states should know by now that I am not a soft touch.
It would underscore the depth of the chasm between leaders who are seeking to advance the cause of European political integration but are out of touch with their electorates, and the British, who do not like European political integration at all.
They find that they can stay in touch with the present moment without having to ruminate about the past or worry about the future.
But whether it is ratified or not ultimately does not matter, as the constitution - and the whole constitution-making process - is totally out of touch with the realities of a country that no longer exists as a coherent body politic.
And yet, as a member of the G-20 and the Security Council, India may well see an interest in bringing up issues of food security or energy security, which touch on both groups' core concerns.
Many consider him to be an old, out-of-touch cleric with no feel for their concerns.
This is the issue that is crying out to be addressed: but so far none of the main political parties has dared touch it.
Although the circumstances are different, the fundamental issues are always the same, for they touch on questions of legitimacy and morality.
Because the Democrats in Congress have an almost religious commitment to preserving, intact, America's principal welfare programs for senior citizens, Social Security and Medicare, the legislation does not touch either of them.
Will it still be the capital of a country whose citizens view the future bleakly and whose politicians have totally lost touch with the electorate?
But Obama's message lost touch with reality when he turned his attention to the budget deficit.
In the first episode of A Touch of Sin, the local boss has become a private-plane-owning billionaire by stripping and selling all of his region's collective assets.
A Touch of Sin has been shown to great acclaim all over the world, but not in China.
For example, Paul De Grauwe of the University of Leuvem has proposed that the European Central Bank should intervene when exchange-rate developments are out of touch with economic reality, in order to send a signal to the markets.
To those who take this view - and on this point many Western businessmen are in complete agreement with the Chinese Communist Party - the signatories of Charter 08 are simply out of touch with their own culture.
For now, however, China, a great country and a growing power, is handling its economic affairs with more sophistication and a surer touch than it is addressing its political challenges.
The other thing both films share is a fascination with mythical stories, the Book of Job in Leviathan, and martial-arts fiction in A Touch of Sin.
And yet, for now, the societies depicted so acidly in Leviathan and A Touch of Sin continue to look good in the eyes of many people who are disillusioned with Europe's economic stagnation and America's political dysfunction.
Indeed, his speeches are studded with references to arrogant elites who are out of touch with the feelings of the common man.
As a volunteer for the network, I was in touch with Chen and followed events closely.
It was Greenspan's notorious reluctance to intervene in financial markets, even when leverage was growing dramatically and asset prices seemed to have lost touch with reality, that created the problem.
More broadly, Western governments, with their light-touch approach to regulation, allowed markets to career out of control in the early years of this century.

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