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Noun touch has 12 senses
- touch, 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"
--1 is a kind of contact, impinging, striking
--1 has particulars: brush, light touch; stroke
- touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses - the faculty of touch; "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"
--2 is a kind of somatosense; exteroception
--2 is a part of
- touch, trace, 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"
--3 is a kind of suggestion, proposition, proffer
- touch, signature - a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch"
--4 is a kind of manner, mode, style, way, fashion
--4 has particulars: common touch
- touch, touching - the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"
--5 is a kind of deed, feat, effort, exploit
--5 has particulars: | | 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 |
- touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon - a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
--6 is a kind of small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
--6 has particulars: snuff
- contact, touch - a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
--7 is a kind of communication, communicating
- touch, spot - a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism"
--8 is a kind of attack
- touch - the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"
--9 is a kind of solicitation
- touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, 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"
--10 is a kind of perception
--10 has particulars: cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation
- touch - deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch"
--11 is a kind of adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
--11 has particulars: finishing touch, capstone, copestone
- touch - the feel of mechanical action; "this piano has a wonderful touch"
--12 is a kind of tactile property, feel
Verb touch has 15 senses
- touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- touch - perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
--2 is one way to perceive, comprehend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- touch, stir - affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
--3 is one way to affect, impress, move, strike
Sample sentences:
The bad news will touch him
The performance is likely to touch Sue
- refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on - have to do with or be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- touch, adjoin, meet, 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"
Sample sentences:
Our properties touch at this point
His fields touch mine at this point
- affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
--6 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- touch - 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"
--7 is one way to manage, deal, care, handle
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- touch - cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
--8 is one way to touch
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- reach, extend to, touch - to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"
--9 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s something
- equal, touch, 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"
--10 is one way to compete, vie, contend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- touch, disturb - tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
--11 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- allude, touch, advert - make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
--12 is one way to hint, suggest
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- touch - comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
--13 is one way to understand
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- partake, touch - consume; "She didn't touch her food all night"
--14 is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sample sentence:
They touch more bread
- tint, tinct, bepaint, tinge, touch - dye with a color
--15 is one way to dye
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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