DICTOMETER

TOUCH

(touch, palpar, rozar, tacto, tocar, toque, anstrøk, berøre, berøring, føle på, følelse, følelsessans, røre, spille, ta på)

1. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Touching
   Definitions:
   • the event of something coming in contact with the body
   Examples:
   • He longed for the touch of her hand
   • The cooling touch of the night air
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Sense of touch
   • Skin senses
   • Touch modality
   • Cutaneous senses
   Definitions:
   • the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
   Examples:
   • Only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Trace
   • Ghost
   Definitions:
   • a suggestion of some quality
   Examples:
   • There was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
   • He detected a ghost of a smile on her face
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Signature
   Definitions:
   • a distinguishing style
   Examples:
   • This room needs a woman's touch
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Touching
   Definitions:
   • the act of putting two things together with no space between them
   Examples:
   • At his touch the room filled with lights
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Hint
   • Tinge
   • Mite
   • Pinch
   • Jot
   • Speck
   • Soupcon
   Definitions:
   • a slight but appreciable amount
   Examples:
   • This dish could use a touch of garlic
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Contact
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • a communicative interaction
   Examples:
   • The pilot made contact with the base
   • He got in touch with his colleagues
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Spot
   Definitions:
   • a slight attack of illness
   Examples:
   • He has a touch of rheumatism
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
   Examples:
   • He watched the beggar trying to make a touch
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Touch
    • Touch sensation
    • Tactual sensation
    • Tactile sensation
    • Feeling
    Definitions:
    • the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
    Examples:
    • She likes the touch of silk on her skin
    • The surface had a greasy feeling
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • deftness in handling matters
    Examples:
    • He has a master's touch
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • the feel of mechanical action
    Examples:
    • This piano has a wonderful touch
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • make physical contact with, come in contact with
   Examples:
   • Touch the stone for good luck
   • She never touched her husband
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • perceive via the tactile sense
   Examples:
   • Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Stir
   Definitions:
   • affect emotionally
   Examples:
   • A stirring movie
   • I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Refer
   • Pertain
   • Relate
   • Concern
   • Come to
   • Bear on
   • Touch
   • Touch on
   • Have-to doe with
   Definitions:
   • be relevant to
   Examples:
   • There were lots of questions referring to her talk
   • My remark pertained to your earlier comments
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Adjoin
   • Meet
   • Contact
   Definitions:
   • be in direct physical contact with
   • make contact
   Examples:
   • The two buildings touch
   • Their hands touched
   • The wire must not contact the metal cover
   • The surfaces contact at this point
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Affect
   • Impact
   • Bear upon
   • Bear on
   • Touch on
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • have an effect upon
   Examples:
   • Will the new rules affect me?
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • deal with
   • usually used with a form of negation
   Examples:
   • I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole
   • The local Mafia won't touch gambling
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • cause to be in brief contact with
   Examples:
   • He touched his toes to the horse's flanks
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Reach
   • Extend to
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • to extend as far as
   Examples:
   • The sunlight reached the wall
   • Can he reach? The chair must not touch the wall
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Equal
    • Touch
    • Rival
    • Match
    Definitions:
    • be equal to in quality or ability
    Examples:
    • 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
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Touch
    • Disturb
    Definitions:
    • tamper with
    Examples:
    • Don't touch my CDs!
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Allude
    • Touch
    • Advert
    Definitions:
    • make a more or less disguised reference to
    Examples:
    • He alluded to the problem but did not mention it
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • comprehend
    Examples:
    • He could not touch the meaning of the poem
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Partake
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • consume
    Examples:
    • She didn't touch her food all night
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Tint
    • Tinct
    • Tinge
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • color lightly
    Examples:
    • Her greying hair was tinged blond
    • The leaves were tinged red in November