英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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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.