| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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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 |