- To cause or permit a part of the body, especially the hand or fingers, to come in contact with so as to feel: reached out and touched the smooth stone.
- To bring something into light contact with: touched the sore spot with a probe.
- To bring (one thing) into light contact with something else: grounded the radio by touching a wire to it; touching fire to a fuse.
- To press or push lightly; tap: touched a control to improve the TV picture; touched 19 on the phone to get room service.
- To lay hands on in violence: I never touched him!
- To eat or drink; taste: She didn't touch her food.
- To disturb or move by handling: Just don't touch anything in my room!
- To meet without going beyond; adjoin: the ridge where his property touches mine.
- Mathematics To be tangent to.
- To come up to; reach: when the thermometer touches 90°.
- To match in quality; equal: Rival artists can't touch her work at its best.
- To deal with, especially in passing; treat briefly or allusively: some remarks touching recent events.
- To be pertinent to; concern: environmental problems that touch us all.
- To affect the emotions of; move to tender response: an appeal that touched us deeply.
- To injure slightly: plants touched by frost.
- To color slightly; tinge: a white petal touched with pink.
- To draw with light strokes.
- To change or improve by adding fine lines or strokes.
- To stamp (tested metal).
- Slang To wheedle a loan or handout from: touched a friend for five dollars.
- Archaic To strike or pluck the keys or strings of (a musical instrument).
- To play (a musical piece).
- To touch someone or something.
- To be or come into contact: Don't let the live wires touch.
- The act or an instance of touching.
- The physiological sense by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body.
- A sensation experienced in touching something with a characteristic texture: felt the touch of snowflakes on her face.
- A light push; a tap: an electric switch that requires just a touch.
- A discernible mark or effect left by contact with something.
- A small change or addition, or the effect achieved by it: Candlelight provided just the right touch.
- A suggestion, hint, or tinge: a touch of jealousy.
- A mild attack: a touch of the flu.
- A small amount; a dash: a touch of paprika.
- A manner or technique of striking the keys of a keyboard instrument: He played briskly with a light touch.
- The resistance to pressure characteristic of the keys of a keyboard: an old piano with uneven touch.
- An ability to propel a ball a desired distance: a golfer with no touch around the green.
- A facility; a knack: retained his touch as a carpenter in his retirement.
- A characteristic way of doing things: recognized my friend's touch in the choice of the card.
- The state of being in contact or communication: kept in touch with several classmates; out of touch with current trends.
- An official stamp indicating the quality of a metal product.
- Slang The act of approaching someone for a loan or handout.
- Slang A prospect for a loan or handout: a generous person, a soft touch for beggars.
- Sports The area just outside the sidelines in soccer or just outside and including the sidelines in Rugby.
- touch down To make contact with the ground; land: The spacecraft touched down on schedule.
- touch off To cause to explode; fire.
- touch off To initiate; trigger: disclosures that touched off a public uproar.
- touch off To describe or portray with deft precision.
- on To deal with (a topic) in passing.
- on To pertain to; concern.
- on To approach being; verge on: frenzy that touched on clinical insanity.
- touch up To improve by making minor corrections, changes, or additions.
- base Informal To renew a line of communication: "He went out of his way to touch base with a broad cross section of . . . residents” ( George B. Merry).
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