Definition of touches Touches
/tʌˈʧʌz/ - [tuchuz] -
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Wiktionary 
- touches (Noun)
Plural of touch.
WordNet
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| touch - the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights" | ||
| touching | ||
| human action, human activity, deed, act a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signed the deed"; "he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment" | ||
| physical contact, contact close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings" | ||
| dab, pat, tap a small quantity of something moist or liquid; "a dab of paint"; "a splatter of mud"; "just a splash of whiskey" | ||
| hitting, striking, hit (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" | ||
| jab, dig a quick short straight punch | ||
| kiss a light glancing touch; "there was a brief kiss of their hands in passing" | ||
| buss, osculation, kiss (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent | ||
| grab, snatch, catch, snap a mechanical device for gripping an object | ||
| manipulation, handling exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" | ||
| fingering touching something with the fingers | ||
| grope the act of groping; and instance of groping | ||
| palpation, tactual exploration a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) | ||
| tickling, tickle, titillation the act of tickling | ||
| stroking, stroke a light touch with the hands | ||
| tag (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game) | ||
| lick, lap touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet" | ||
| touch - 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" | ||
| touching | ||
| impinging, striking, contact close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings" | ||
| light touch, brush contact with something dangerous or undesirable; "I had a brush with danger on my way to work"; "he tried to avoid any brushes with the police" | ||
| touch - the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" | ||
| touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling | ||
| perception the process of perceiving | ||
| creepiness an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | ||
| touch - the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us" | ||
| sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses | ||
| somatosense any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | ||
| exteroception sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body | ||
| somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somesthesia the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | ||
| touch - a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch" | ||
| signature | ||
| manner, fashion, mode, style, way a way of acting or behaving | ||
| touch - deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch" | ||
| adeptness, adroitness, deftness, quickness, facility skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer" | ||
| touch - a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" | ||
| hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon | ||
| small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude | ||
| touch - the feel of mechanical action; "this piano has a wonderful touch" | ||
| touch - a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" | ||
| trace, ghost | ||
| touch - the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch" | ||
| touch - a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism" | ||
| spot | ||
| touch - a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues" | ||
| contact | ||
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| touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" | ||
| touch down come or bring (a plane) to a landing; "the plane touched down at noon" | ||
| engage get caught; "make sure the gear is engaged" | ||
| touch comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem" | ||
| toe touch with the toe | ||
| pick up lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile" | ||
| hit, strike pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| thumb, finger indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments | ||
| feel be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"; "She felt sad after her loss" | ||
| palpate, feel examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse" | ||
| palm, handle touch, lift, or hold with the hands; "Don't handle the merchandise" | ||
| stroke treat gingerly or carefully; "You have to stroke the boss" | ||
| collide with, impinge on, run into, hit, strike collide violently with an obstacle; "I ran into the telephone pole" | ||
| brush remove with or as if with a brush; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections" | ||
| skim over, skim move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of | ||
| hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| strike cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc" | ||
| buss, snog, kiss, osculate touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" | ||
| kiss touch lightly or gently; "the blossoms were kissed by the soft rain" | ||
| mouth articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word" | ||
| press place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure; "pressed flowers" | ||
| tag provide with a name or nickname | ||
| touch - 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" | ||
| adjoin, meet, contact | ||
| spread over, cover clothe, as if for protection from the elements; "cover your head!" | ||
| cleave, cling, cohere, adhere, stick separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; "cleave the bone" | ||
| fray, rub, chafe, scratch, fret wear away by rubbing; "The friction frayed the sleeve" | ||
| attach be attached; be in contact with | ||
| hug fit closely or tightly; "The dress hugged her hips" | ||
| abut, butt on, butt against, adjoin, butt, edge, border, march attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter" | ||
| environ, skirt, surround, border, ring pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast" | ||
| lean against, lean on, rest on rest on for support; "you can lean on me if you get tired" | ||
| converge, meet come together so as to form a single product; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power" | ||
| touch - affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" | ||
| stir | ||
| affect, impress, move, strike act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" | ||
| fire up, ignite, heat, stir up, inflame, wake cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette" | ||
| get cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" | ||
| touch - perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her" | ||
| perceive, comprehend become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest" | ||
| touch - cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks" | ||
| touch comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem" | ||
| touch - tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!" | ||
| disturb | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| upset disturb the balance or stability of; "The hostile talks upset the peaceful relations between the two countries" | ||
| violate destroy; "Don't violate my garden"; "violate my privacy" | ||
| touch - comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem" | ||
| understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means" | ||
| 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" | ||
| care, handle, manage, deal feel concern or interest; "I really care about my work"; "I don't care" | ||
| touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" | ||
| affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| strike a blow affect adversely; "The court ruling struck a blow at the old segregation laws" | ||
| repercuss cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect | ||
| tell on produce an effect or strain on somebody; "Each step told on his tired legs" | ||
| redound have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good" | ||
| stimulate, excite cause to be alert and energetic; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" | ||
| process, treat subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill" | ||
| hydrolise, hydrolize make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | ||
| tinge, distort, color, colour affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life" | ||
| endanger, peril, queer, scupper, expose pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" | ||
| hit, strike pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| subject make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors" | ||
| discommode, incommode, inconvenience, disoblige, trouble, bother, put out ignore someone's wishes | ||
| act upon, influence, work have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate" | ||
| slam-dunk make a slam dunk; shoot a basketball in a slam dunk | ||
| touch - be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" | ||
| refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch on, have-to doe with | ||
| allude, advert, touch make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" | ||
| concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, center on, revolve around, center center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" | ||
| go for, apply, hold ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job" | ||
| regard, affect, involve look at attentively | ||
| matter to, interest be of importance or consequence; "This matters to me!" | ||
| touch - color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November" | ||
| tint, tinct, tinge | ||
| color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, color, colour add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" | ||
| henna apply henna to one's hair; "She hennas her hair every month" | ||
| tincture stain or tint with a color; "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red" | ||
| complexion give a certain color to; "The setting sun complexioned the hills" | ||
| touch - to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall" | ||
| reach, extend to | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| poke out, reach out, extend attempt to communicate; "I try to reach out to my daughter but she doesn't want to have anything to do with me" | ||
| reach into run into or up to | ||
| reach into run into or up to | ||
| touch - make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" | ||
| allude, advert | ||
| denote, refer have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' " | ||
| hint, suggest drop a hint; intimate by a hint | ||
| touch - 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" | ||
| equal, rival, match | ||
| compete, vie, contend compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | ||
| touch - consume; "She didn't touch her food all night" | ||
| partake | ||
| ingest, consume, take in, have, take engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" | ||
| receive convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals" | ||
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Wiktionary
- touch (Noun)
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger. - touch (Noun)
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact. - touch (Noun)
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument. - touch (Noun)
A distinguishing feature or characteristic. - touch (Noun)
A little bit; a small amount. - touch (Noun)
The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines. - touch (Noun)
A relationship of close communication or understanding. - touch (Noun)
An ability to perform a task. - touch (Verb)
Primarily physical senses. - touch (Verb)
I touched her face softly. - touch (Verb)
Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground. - touch (Verb)
They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching. - touch (Verb)
Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch? - touch (Verb)
If you touch her, I'll kill you. - touch (Verb)
Frankly, this wood's so strong that sandpaper won't touch it. - touch (Verb)
Are you all right? You've hardly touched your lunch. - touch (Verb)
1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. - touch (Verb)
Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander--from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain--this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten. - touch (Verb)
Her parents had caught her touching herself when she was fifteen. - touch (Verb)
Primarily non-physical senses. - touch (Verb)
My grandfather, as many people know, was touched with greatness. - touch (Verb)
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I. 2. 4. vii. - touch (Verb)
Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched, ... there is a superstitious fear ... which much trouble many of us. - touch (Verb)
"Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope," continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to understand. ". - touch (Verb)
1526, , trans. Bible, Acts V. - touch (Verb)
Men of Israhell take hede to youreselves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men. - touch (Verb)
And now it seemed he was engaged in something which touched them closely, but must be hidden from their knowledge. - touch (Verb)
Stefan was touched by the song's message of hope. - touch (Verb)
He had been drinking over lunch, and was clearly touched. - touch (Verb)
The bill was finally touched after many hours of deliberation. - touch (Verb)
I was running short, so I touched old Bertie for a fiver. - touch (Verb)
You must be touched if you think I'm taking your advice. - touch (Verb)
2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 201 Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track. - touch (Verb)
1928, L. Dorothy L. Sayers , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in Peter Views the Lord Peter Views the Body . - touch (Verb)
There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen as I do you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty. - touch (Verb)
To mark a file or document as having been modified.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- touch (v. t.)
To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on. - touch (v. t.)
To perceive by the sense of feeling. - touch (v. t.)
To come to; to reach; to attain to. - touch (v. t.)
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. - touch (v. t.)
To relate to; to concern; to affect. - touch (v. t.)
To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. - touch (v. t.)
To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. - touch (v. t.)
To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften. - touch (v. t.)
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. - touch (v. t.)
To infect; to affect slightly. - touch (v. t.)
To make an impression on; to have effect upon. - touch (v. t.)
To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. - touch (v. t.)
To perform, as a tune; to play. - touch (v. t.)
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. - touch (v. t.)
To harm, afflict, or distress. - touch (v. t.)
To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. - touch (v. t.)
To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. - touch (a.)
To lay a hand upon for curing disease. - touch (v. i.)
To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points. - touch (v. i.)
To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. - touch (v. i.)
To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon. - touch (v. i.)
To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. - touch (v.)
The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. - touch (v.)
The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile. - touch (v.)
Act or power of exciting emotion. - touch (v.)
An emotion or affection. - touch (v.)
Personal reference or application. - touch (v.)
A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof. - touch (v.)
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. - touch (v.)
Feature; lineament; trait. - touch (v.)
The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes. - touch (v.)
A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. - touch (v.)
A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. - touch (v.)
A slight and brief essay. - touch (v.)
A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. - touch (v.)
Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality. - touch (v.)
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch. - touch (v.)
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters. - touch (n.)
That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. - touch (n.)
A boys' game; tag.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To be of (some) importance, to influence something or someone (enough), to impress, to touch. -
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To be in physical contact with. -
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To affect emotionally.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tuch, v.t. to come in contact with: to perceive by feeling: to reach: to relate to: to handle or treat gently or slightly, as in 'to touch the hat,' &c.: to take, taste: to move or soften: to influence: to move to pity: to taint: (slang) to cheat: to lay the hand upon for the purpose of curing scrofula or king's evil—a practice that ceased only with the accession of the House of Brunswick.—v.i. to be in contact with: to make a passing call: to speak of anything slightly: (prov.) to salute by touching the cap.—n. act of touching: a movement on a musical instrument, skill or nicety in such, a musical note or strain: any impression conveyed by contact, a hint, a slight sound: a stroke with a pen, brush, &c.: a tinge, smack, trace, a slight degree of a thing: sense of feeling, contact, close sympathy, harmony: peculiar or characteristic manner: a style of anything at a certain expenditure: a touchstone, test.—adj. Touch′able, capable of being touched.—n. Touch′ableness, the state or quality of being touchable.—adj. Touch′-and-go, of uncertain issue, ticklish, difficult.—ns. Touch′-back, the act of touching the football to the ground behind the player's own goal when it has been kicked by an opponent; Touch′-box, a box containing tinder, which used to be carried by soldiers armed with matchlocks; Touch′-down, the touching to the ground of a football by a player behind the opponents' goal; Touch′er; Touch′-hole, the small hole of a cannon through which the fire is communicated to the charge.—adv. Touch′ily, in a touchy manner: peevishly.—n. Touch′iness, the quality of being touchy: peevishness: irritability.—adj. Touch′ing, affecting: moving: pathetic.—prep. concerning: with regard to.—adv. Touch′ingly.—ns. Touch′ingness; Touch′-me-not, a plant of genus Impatiens: lupus; Touch′-nee′dle, a small bar or needle of gold for testing articles of the same metal by comparing the streaks they make on a touchstone with those made by the needle; Touch′-pā′per, paper steeped in saltpetre for firing a train of powder, &c.; Touch′piece, a coin or medal formerly given by English sovereigns to those whom they touched for the cure of the king's evil; Touch′stone, a kind of compact basalt or stone for testing gold or silver by the streak of the touch-needle: any test; Touch′wood, some soft combustible material, as amadou, used as tinder.—adj. Touch′y, irritable: peevish.—Touch up, to improve by a series of small touches, to elaborate, embellish.—A near touch, a close shave. [Fr. toucher—from Old High Ger. zucchen (Ger. zucken), to move, to draw.]
Electrical DictionaryThe Standard Electrical Dictionary 💡
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A term applied to methods of magnetization, as "single touch," "double touch," or "separate touch," indicating how the poles of the inducing magnet or magnets are applied to the bar to be magnetized. Under the titles of Magnetization the different methods are described.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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In ship-building, the broadest part of a plank worked top-and-butt. Also, the angles of the stern-timbers at the counters. Also, keeping touch is fulfilling the terms of an agreement--speaking of the faith between seamen and their employers.
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡
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A habit common to the impecunious, causing in its victim a feeling of faintness, followed by a chill or a sense of loss.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in the head; insane, crazy. To touch up a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. Touch bone and whistle; any one having broken wind backwards, according to the vulgar law, may be pinched by any of the company till he has touched bone (i.e. his teeth) and whistled.
Wikipedia 
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Touch (also called feeling) is one of the five senses that animals have. An animal knows if something is against a part of its body. This is called the sense of touch.
Wanted and Unwanted Touching.
Touch can be wanted. A massage is usually a type of touch that is wanted. A touch can be unwanted. A punch is usually a type of touch that is unwanted.
