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touch

touch

311 1.0
A feeling when your skin meets something or someone
  • noun
  • /tʌtʃ/
: tacto
  • The gentle touch of the breeze on her face was refreshing.
  • touch screen
  • sense of touch
  • lose touch

So there are two kinds of touch nerve fibre.

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Examples

  • Warm me with your touch.

  • It's cold to the touch and delicious.

  • A very basic desire to taste, to touch, to enjoy.

  • Can you feel the touch?

  • The floor is dirt, a little damp to the touch as cellar dirt usually is.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • In such cases, aroma works in conjunction with sound and touch in the process of psychotherapy.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The simulator now incorporates the sense of touch that the surgeon also feels during the actual procedure.

    Academic text (2008)
  • He appreciated the reassuring touch of her hand during the difficult conversation.

  • The children laughed when they felt the soft touch of the puppy's fur.

Synonyms

contact
vstouch
334 1.0

Physical touching between people or things

is the act, moment, and ability to sense through direct connection
feeling
vstouch
126 1.0

A physical sensation you notice through touch or inside your body

is the action of physical contact and the capacity to feel through the skin
feel
vstouch
65 1.8

How something is to the touch

is the act, moment, or sensory ability of physical contact rather than object quality
30 2.0

Touch between people or between a person and an object

is the act, moment, and ability to sense through direct connection
sense of touch
vstouch
5 3.0

The ability to feel things through the skin

is the act or moment of physical contact as well as the sensory faculty
touch perception
vstouch
  • Specialized
1 4.5

Ability to feel pressure, heat, or pain on the skin

is also the brief physical contact event and the general capacity to feel

Antonyms

312 2.1

A lack of someone or something that should be there

Being separate from people, things, or contact, for example losing internet

Idioms

92 4.9

Not aware of recent events or people's feelings

75 2.3

A small amount of something added to improve or change it

26 3.0

A small extra detail that makes something look or feel better

to touch a nerve
  • Informal
11 7.7

Make someone feel upset or defensive by mentioning a sensitive subject

No longer have the skill you once had to do something well

Midas touch
  • Informal
5 8.1

A special ability to make money or do well in many things

Make someone feel strong emotion or sympathy

to touch a chord
  • Informal
2 5.8

To make a person feel a strong emotion

2 6.1

A natural ability to do something well

1 9.3

To tell viewers or listeners to keep watching and not change the channel during a break in the show

1 8.3

You say it to try to stop bad luck after saying something good

1 9.1

Tell someone not to change the radio or television channel before a show returns

Ask an important person for help or a blessing

To become less good at something you used to do well

Refuse to be involved with people or things that seem dangerous and dishonest

A rude slang way to say someone shows small signs of autism and may offend people

Compounds

A last small detail that makes something look or feel complete

27 2.7

A screen you touch to control a phone or tablet

touch-and-go
  • Informal
20 7.2

A situation that is dangerous or uncertain until the last moment

13 3.9

A small repair to make something look better

11 3.9

A gentle, brief contact made with little force

9 3.2

A version of American football where players touch the player with the ball to stop them instead of tackling

9 3.7

A gentle way of touching or handling people and objects

A small amount of care that makes something special

The ability to feel things through the skin

A small extra detail that makes something feel nicer

3 4.6

A way of connecting with ordinary people that makes them feel understood

golden touch
  • Informal
2 5.2

A skill for making projects succeed easily

bad touch
  • Offensive
2 9.0

Unwanted physical contact that makes someone feel scared or uncomfortable

1 3.6

A way to use all fingers on a keyboard without looking at it

two touch
  • Jargon
1 6.2

A football exercise where each player may touch the ball only twice before passing

1 4.1

Used for small repairs that make something look better

1 4.6

A form of football where another player stops someone by touching them with both hands

1 5.4

A person who uses a keyboard without looking at the keys

touch-me-not
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A plant with seed pods that burst when you touch them and release seeds

soft touch
  • Offensive
1 7.0

A person who easily agrees and can be taken advantage of

A small detail that makes something look beautiful and special

touch sensation
  • Specialized
1 3.9

A feeling on the skin when something presses or rests on it

1 9.8

A tendency to make everything a person touches fail

touch perception
  • Specialized
1 4.5

Ability to feel pressure, heat, or pain on the skin

1 3.7

To type by pressing keys without looking, using trained finger positions

A small detail that makes something look brighter and happier

game of two touch
  • Australian
8.4

Touch football where another player touches someone twice to tackle them

touch modality
  • Specialized
7.0

The sense that lets you feel objects through physical contact

touch-me-not
  • Specialized
9.5

A plant with leaves that fold together when you touch them

5.5

A practice where soccer players control and pass the ball using two touches

How Hard

slap
135 1.0
pat
47 1.0
tap
57 1.0
touch
311 1.0
to brush
125 1.6

Surface Forms

touch singular
touches plural

Etymology

Touch comes from the old French verb toucher, which meant 'to feel with the hand' or 'to strike'. So a touch is simply a moment of physical contact or the sensation you get when something meets your skin.