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

字典
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.