touch
Primarily physical senses.
Verb 4 meanings
Primarily physical senses.
“I touched his face softly.”
Primarily non-physical senses.
“My grandfather, as many people know, was touched with greatness.”
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
Noun 4 meanings
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
“Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.”
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
“With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.”
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
“He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch.”
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
“a heavy touch, or a light touch”
Etymology
From Middle English touchen, tochen, from Old French tochier (“to touch”) (whence Modern French toucher; compare French doublet toquer (“to offend, bother, harass”)), from Vulgar Latin *tuccō (“to knock, strike, offend”), from Frankish *tukkōn (“to knock, strike, touch”), from Proto-Germanic *tukkōną (“to tug, grab, grasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull, lead”).
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TOUCH at a glance
TOUCH has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (T 1 + O 1 + U 1 + C 3 + H 4) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,284 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with touch
All rhymes- MUCH11
- SUCH9
- COUCH12
- OUCH9
- POUCH12
- CROUCH13
- VOUCH13
- INASMUCH15
- SLOUCH11
- GROUCH12
- FORASMUCH19
- INSOMUCH15
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