meaning of touch
1. 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.
2. To perceive by the sense of feeling.
3. To come to; to reach; to attain to.
4. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
5. To relate to; to concern; to affect.
6. To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
7. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
8. To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
9. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
10. To infect; to affect slightly.
11. To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
12. To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
13. To perform, as a tune; to play.
14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
15. To harm, afflict, or distress.
16. To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
17. To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
18. To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
19. To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
20. To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
21. To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
22. To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
23. The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
24. 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.
25. Act or power of exciting emotion.
26. An emotion or affection.
27. Personal reference or application.
28. A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
29. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
30. Feature; lineament; trait.
31. The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
32. A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
33. A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
34. A slight and brief essay.
35. A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
36. Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
40. A boys game; tag.
41. the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with
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