Touch

Definition: Touch

Touch

Noun

1. 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".

2. The faculty of touch; "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us".

3. A suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face".

4. A distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch".

5. The act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights".

6. A small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic".

7. A communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues".

8. A slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism".

9. The act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch".

10. : the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling".

11. : deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch".

12. : the feel of mechanical action: "this piano has a wonderful touch".

Verb

1. Make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband".

2. Perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her".

3. Affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy".

4. Be about; have to do with; be relevant to; refer, pertain, or relate to; "What's this novel all about?"; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk".

5. 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".

6. Have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?".

7. 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".

8. Cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks".

9. To extend as far as, "The sunlight reached the wall";"Can he reach?".

10. : 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".

11. : tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!".

12. : make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it".

13. : comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem".

14. : touch, as of food; "She didn't touch her food all night".

15. : dye with a color.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "touch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Touch \Touch\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Touched; Touching.]. (references)

19th Century Satire

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Touch

Action

Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).

Contiguity

Verb: be contiguous; Adjective: join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Experiment

Verb: experiment; essay; (endeavor); try, try out, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength; road-test, test drive, take for a spin; test fly.

Indication

Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent.

Mixture

Tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon.

Pity

Raise pity, excite pity; n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.

Receiving

Take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's purse; accept; take off one's hands.

Relation

Verb: be related; Adjective: have a relation; Noun: relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Touch

German (air, Flavor, flavour, tone).

You touch me, I bite (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)

She won't touch it. (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don't you touch me (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

You know you wreck everything you touch, Why don't you try and make something for a change (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

Just a little of that Human Touch (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

And sometimes when we touch (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill)

And when i think about you I touch myself (I TOUCH MYSELF; performing artist: Divinyls)

She seems to have an invisible touch yeah (Invisible Touch; performing artist: Genesis)

Can't touch this ("U Can't Touch This"; performing artist: M.C. Hammer)

Money Isn't Everything, But It Sure Keeps The Kids In Touch. (references; author: unknown)

Old folks say, "If God wanted me to touch my toes,  he would have put them on my knees. (references; author: unknown)

You did touch me but didn't feel my pain. Jesus came and touched me, and I don't feel the pain any more. (references; author: unknown)

Touch and Go (2003)

A Touch of Genie (1974)

The Evil Touch (1973)

Pay Later Touch Now (1973)

A Touch of Class (1973)

Touch Me (performing artist: The Doors)

Now's The Time To Touch A Star (performing artist: Karl Franzen)

Invisible Touch (performing artist: Genesis)

TOUCH OF GREY  (performing artist: Grateful Dead )

U Can't Touch This (performing artist: M.C. Hammer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chocolate Touch (reference)

• A Classy Touch of Murder (Dr. Jean Montrose Mystery, No 3) (reference)

• Parametric Programming for Computer Numerical Control Machine Tools and Touch Probes: CNC's Best Kept Secret (reference)

• Touch This! Conceptual Physics for Everyone (reference)

• A Dab of Dickens & A Touch of Twain: Literary Lives from Shakespeare's Old England to Frost's New England (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Crid In Touch (reference)

• In Touch (reference)

• Keeping In Touch (reference)

• Leadership : With A Human Touch (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Touch of Class (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• In a Lighter Touch (reference)

• Touch of Mellow (reference)

• Touch (reference)

• Touch [ENHANCED] [LIMITED EDITION] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Nikon Lite Touch 110s 35mm Date Camera w/ Zoom (reference)

• Turbo Touch 360 (reference)

• 12.1 TOUCH SCREEN/233 MMX (reference)

• 12.1 TOUCH SCREEN/PII CELERON (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Triumph 5 Comfort Touch Car Seat with LATCH - Rockefeller (reference)

• Hamilton Beach 33740 4-1/2-Quart Cool Touch Slow Cooker (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Skin touch preparation showing Leishmania tropica amastigotes. Intact macrophage is practically filled with amastigotes, several of which have a clearly visible nucleus and kinetoplast (arrows). Parasite. Credit: CDC.

Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Kids at the "touch table" at Estuaries Day 1999 festivities. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Lt. Col. Mark Milardo, a missile officer with the North American Aerospace Command tracks Santa's journey. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" program features a six-language live-tracking Web site designed to bring a touch of the season to eager Santa wat.

Caption: Movie Still, "Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours." in the Black Maria; Unknown Date; {23.430/25} (jpg).

... the game ... is specially made for blind children who have to substitute the sense of touch for that of sight. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr..

"The Master Touch" / [William] Sharp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Molder puts the finishing touch to a sand mold, while the ship was providing tender services in May 1969, probably in Subic Bay, Philippines. Credit: NAVY.

May God bless her an' may sorrer never touch her!. Credit: Library of Congress.

We were once young ourselves, said Martha with a touch of tenderness : I thought you might like to have the old days recalled again to-night. Credit: Library of Congress.

Royal Oak, Michigan. Children playing touch football. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at this speech, from his wife

It seemed very hard to reach down far enough to just touch the floor, as Sylvie led me through the study

This sleep in this solitude, with a neighbour such as he, contained a touch of the sublime, which he felt vaguely but powerfully

There is no writer can touch sir Walter Scott

Ah, Buckingham, now do I play the touch, To try if thou be current gold indeed

Wilson stood by his broken car, and Sairy had gone to the mattress to sit beside Granma, but Sairy was careful not to touch her.

To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand

We cannot touch a string or move a stop but the charming moral transfixes us.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Do not touch the stool of any animal. (references)

Never touch unfamiliar or wild animals. (references)

It helps us run, walk, move, sit, and touch. (references)

Business

Further, the gray market can keep in touch with changing technology requirements. (references)

These manufacturers choose their retailers carefully and stay in close touch with their customers. (references)

Besides, leasing companies do not rely on branch networks, but rather just stay in touch with major dealers in Bangkok. (references)

Economic History

Yemen

Handling these issues will require a deft political touch. (references)

Egypt

U.S. firms must stay in close touch with client agencies to minimize doubts and uncertainties. (references)

Cyprus

The new Central Bank policy does not touch upon limitations applicable under other laws or regulations. (references)

Human Rights

Hong Kong

The courts also may interpret other provisions of the Basic Law that touch on central government responsibilities or on the relationship between the central authorities and the SAR, but before making final judgments on these matters, which are unappealable, the courts must seek an interpretation of the relevant provisions from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (in the controversial 1999 "right of abode case," the Government, not the court, sought an interpretation from the Standing Committee). (references)

Travel

Barbados

Touch tone service and direct dialing is available. (references)

Bulgaria

Travelers may hear recorded information by calling the Department at (202) 647-5225 from a touch tone telephone, or receive information by automated fax by dialing (202) 647-3000. (references)

Worker Rights

Poland

Once victims have contacted La Strada, the NGO puts them in touch with appropriate welfare offices. (references)

Poland

At times La Strada is able to put victims in touch with lawyers who are willing to provide free services. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Their touch

Expressions using "touch": a touch of irony ♦ a touch of jealousy ♦ Acupressure touch ♦ add a personal touch ♦ be a soft touch ♦ be in touch ♦ be in touch with ♦ be in touch with smb. ♦ be soft to the touch ♦ bring near and touch ♦ by sense of touch ♦ common touch ♦ do not touch ♦ do not touch me! ♦ Etheric touch ♦ false touch ♦ finishing touch ♦ first touch ♦ get in touch ♦ get in touch with ♦ get into touch ♦ get into touch with ♦ have a velvety touch ♦ Healing Touch ♦ in touch ♦ in touch with ♦ Intuitive touch healing ♦ it does not touch me at all ♦ Joy touch ♦ keep in touch ♦ keep in touch with ♦ keep in touch with smb. ♦ Kofutu Touch Healing ♦ light touch ♦ Light Touch Energy Healing ♦ lose touch ♦ lose touch with ♦ make out by touch ♦ make touch ♦ Master touch ♦ Metta Touch ♦ Midas touch ♦ nobody can touch him in irony ♦ not to touch with a bargepole ♦ not touch ♦ on the slightest touch ♦ put smb. into touch with ♦ put to the touch ♦ royal touch ♦ see touch ♦ sense of touch ♦ soft touch ♦ Sound Touch Therapy ♦ stay in touch ♦ Taoist Energy Touch ♦ the sense of touch ♦ Therapeutic Touch ♦ Therapeutic Touch inner work ♦ To be in touch ♦ to keep in touch ♦ To keep touch ♦ to the touch ♦ To touch a sail ♦ To touch and go ♦ To touch at ♦ To touch bottom ♦ To touch on ♦ To touch the wind ♦ To touch up ♦ to touch upon ♦ touch a raw nerve ♦ Touch And Breathe ♦ touch and go ♦ touch at ♦ touch base ♦ touch bottom ♦ touch call ♦ touch calling ♦ touch deeply ♦ touch down ♦ touch dry ♦ touch each other ♦ touch everything ♦ touch football ♦ touch for ♦ Touch for Health ♦ touch glasses ♦ touch hole ♦ touch in ♦ touch lines ♦ touch me not ♦ touch modality ♦ touch of the sun ♦ touch off ♦ touch on ♦ touch on the raw ♦ touch perception ♦ touch repeatedly ♦ touch right chord ♦ touch screen ♦ touch sensation. Additional references.

Beginning with "touch": touch-and-close, touch-and-go, touch-and-go landing, touch-and-goes, touch-and-try, touch-body, Touch-box, touch-code, touch-control, touch-dampness, touch-down, touch-dry, touch-holes, touch-induced, touch-judge, touch-leger, touch-legering, touch-line, touch-me-not, Touch-needle, touch-of-a-button, touch-of-the-button, touch-opening, touch-operated, touch-pad, touch-paper, touch-parking, touch-passing, touch-ropes, touch-screen, touch-sensitive, touch-that, touch-tone, touch-type, touch-typist, touch-up, touch-ups, touch-wah, touch-worn.

Ending with "touch": one-touch, out-of-touch.

Containing "touch": do-not-touch-me, never-touch-earth, never-touch-woman, out-of-touch-with-reality.

Afrikaans

aanraking, aanraak. (various references)

Albanian

trajtoj (attend, handle, reckon in, treat), të prekur, trondit (appal, appall, concuss, overwhelm, rattle, shake, shake up, shock, stagger, stir), ngjyroj (tincture), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total), cek (brush, dab, hug, Pat, skim, tip), emocionoj (choke up, effect, excite, thrill), fitoj (carry off, come by, come into, command, earn, fight down, gain, gain upon, get, get the best of, make, net, obtain, outfight, overcome, overthrow, possess, profit, pull in, realize, score, score off, take, win), grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, whit), ka lidhje me, komunikim (communication, intercommunication, intercourse, notice), mënyrë (cut, device, fashion, form, manner, mean, means, method, modality, mode, path, rate, sort, way, wise), çik (dab, graze, skitter), ndjek (attend, chase, follow, give chase, Hunt, lead, nose, persecute, prosecute, pursue, rattle, shadow, smell out, spoor, string along, tag, tail, take after, trace, track, track down, trail, tread), përkas (appertain, befall, belong, fall into, pertain, regard), pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, drop, full stop, globule, installation, leak, match point, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot), prek (adjoin, affect, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch on, touch upon), prekje (affection, contact, feeling, fingering, handling, palpation, Tig, touching), prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, turn sour), provë (assay, audition, averment, demonstration, evidence, experiment, fact, fitting, flier, prill, probation, prolusion, proof, reasoning, rehearsal, run through, rush, school, seal, sign, substantiation, taste, tasting, test, trial, try, try on, try out, witness), shoqërim (accompaniment, attendance, concomitance, convoy, society, tracking), mjet (agent, apparatus, device, engine, expedient, implement, instrument, intermedium, mean, means, medium, mode, modus, recipe, route, tool, vehicle, wherewithal). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعرض للموضوع, ‏أثر (bias, count, echo, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work), ‏أثر في (affect, impact, influence, inspire, involve, manipulate, overawe, prepossess, react), ‏أثار الشفقة (piteous, pitiful, stir), ‏أصاب الهدف (hit, hit a target, hit one's aim, strike home), ‏إرتبط بعلاقة مع, ‏إستلف (scrounge), ‏إتصال (contact, liaison, link, nexus, relation), ‏جس (feel, necking, palpate, palpation, paw, pet, ply, probe, probing), ‏صلة (communication, connection, connexion, copula, link, linkage, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, tie), ‏ضرب ضربا خفيفا, ‏ضربة خفيفة (clip, tip, trait), ‏دخل في علاقة, ‏طابع (distinctive quality, impress, label, printer, seal, trait), ‏مسحة (bit, hue, shade, smack, streak, suggestion, tang, tinge, tint, trace), ‏تعلق (affection, appertain, attach, become attached, cherish, cleave, concern, crush, depend, fixation, hold of smth., pertain, respect, snag, stick by smb., treasure), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping), ‏حرك المشاعر (affect), ‏وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, voucher), ‏وضع المسات الأخيرة, ‏لمس (fell, finger, handle, perceive, sense), ‏لمسة, ‏هذب (chasten, civilize, cultivate, edify, educate, elevate, file, geld, lop, perfect, polish, prune, refine, retouch, revise, shear off, sublimate, touch up, trim), ‏هيئة (appearance, aspect, body, cast, face, feature, form, framework, guise, make, organism, organization, shape, staff), ‏مس (befall, contact, feel, finger, graze, handle, impinge, palpate, tip, twiddle), ‏مس مسا خفيفا, ‏ضربة في الرياضة. (various references)

Aymara

llamct'aña (to touch). (various references)

Basque

ukitu (feeling), ukimen (feeling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

интересувам (interest), леко вълнение (ripple, tingle), лек пристъп, примес (admixture, adulterant, alloy, dash, dross, impurity, infusion, intermixture), похват (contrivance, knack, know how, procedure, process, resource, skill), покътвам, получавам добър резултат от, получавам (derive, gain, get, have, obtain, receive, turn), попарвам (blight, damp, frost, infuse, kill, nip, perish, scald, steam, wither), палпиране, допир (contact, incidence, osculation), пипам (feel, filch, handle, interfere, meddle, paw, trifle), маниер (demeanor, demeanour, fashion, manner, mode, sort, style, turn, way), имам общо с, имам ефект, измъкване на пари, измъкнати пари, изпитвам с пробен камък, достигам до (attain, meet, penetrate, run to), докосване (dab), докосвам се до, долепен съм до, допирам се до, пипвам (catch, cop, feel, grab, nab, nail, nip, pinch, pull, rap, snag), осезание (feeling), усещане от пипане, удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), следа (footprint, ghost, odor, odour, print, rag, relic, relish, remnant, rudiment, savor, savour, scar, scent, scintilla, shadow, show, shred, sign, spice, tang, trace, track, trail, train, trait, vestige, whiff), справям се с (account for, cope with, cut, dispose of, hack, handle, meet, reckon with), щрих (hatch, stroke), туше, туширане (shading), трогвам (affect, move, penetrate, reach), контакт (contact, plug, point), гранича (abut upon, adjoin, bound, confine, neighbor, neighbour), закърпване, връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie), засягам (advert, affect, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hit, hurt, import, offend, pique, refer, regard, tell, treat of), отсянка (nuance, quality, shade, tincture, tinge), оттенък (hue, overtone, savor, savour, spice, strain, tincture, tinge, undertone), оказвам нужното въздействие, общуване (association, communication, communion, companionship, connection, conversation, converse, fraternization, intercommunication, intercourse, society), нотка (flavour, note, suspicion, tinge), накърнявам честолюбие, мъничко (scruple, shade, smack, sprinkle, stick, thimbleful, tincture, trace, trifle), меря се с (match), майсторска ръка, стигам до (reach, reach down, remount, run into), гоненица (tag). (various references)

Chinese 

觸摸 , 觸 (knock against, to feel), 聯繫 (connection, contact, relation, to integrate, to link), 筆鋒 (stroke, the tip of a writing brush, vigor of style in writing), 接触 (contacting, Contiguous, touched, touching). (various references)

Czech

dotek (feel, Pat), dotýkat se (affect, concern, handle, touch upon). (various references)

Danish

berøring (contiguity, grappling), berøre. (various references)

Dutch

aanslag (assault, assessment, fur, moisture, scale). (various references)

Esperanto

tuŝo, tuŝi, fingrofrapo, ektuŝmaniero. (various references)

Faeroese

nerta (feel, grope). (various references)

Farsi 

پرماسیدن (Palpate), پرماس , متاثرکردن (Affect), متاثرشدن (Pity), لمس کردن (Feel, Palpate, Stroke, Take), لمس دست زنی , حس لامسه , رسیدن به (Overtake, Reach), دست زدن به (Handle). (various references)

Finnish

koskettaa (touch upon). (various references)

French

toucher (sense of touch), touchez, touche. (various references)

Frisian

oanroere, oanreitsje, oanreitsing. (various references)

German

Berührung (contact, mention), berühren (affect, agitate, border on, concern, contact, handle, handling, meet, move, skim, to touch, touch on), rühren (affect, agitate, beat, budge, move, stir, stir up, to budge, touch on), anrühren (blend, mix, stir, touch on). (various references)

Greek 

συγκινώ (affect, excite, move, thrill), εγγίζω (border on, draw near, graze), αγγίζω (feel, meet). (various references)

Hebrew 

להקיש (beat, knock, sound, strike, tap), קורטוב (bit, dash, iota, modicum, pinch, shade, smack, spot, taste, trace), לנגוע (smite), לנגוע ללב, לנשוק (kiss, meet together), לגעת (paw, tamper), נגיעה (connection, contact, relation, touching), להגיע (arrive, come, happen, reach, suffice), משמוש (feeling, manipulation, touching), להשיק, למשש (feel, fumble, grope, twiddle), למשמש (examine, feel, finger, handle, manipulate, rummage), למוש (depart, feel), מגע (connection, contact, feel, intercourse, liaison, relation), משוש (feel, feeling, palpation, touching), לגשוש (run aground). (various references)

Hungarian

tapintás (feel, feeling, fingering, handle, sense of feeling), érintés (dab, twitch). (various references)

Indonesian

singgung (contact, nudge), sentuh, menyentuh, bersinggungan (contact), antuk (come in contact with). (various references)

Italian

toccare (affect, be turn, be up to, concern, fall, feel, finger, handle, happen, have, hurt, move, reach, to touch, touch each other, touch in). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

接触 (contact). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうほう (both, both parties, mutual, playing, playing method, regulations governing Chinese religious observances and social order, running style, two way), ひっち (certain cure, literary style, stroke of the brush), さわり (bad effect, feel, harm, hindrance, impression, most impressive passage, obstacle, punch line, sickness), せっしょく (contact, eating lightly, feed, feeding), タッチ , てざわり (feel). (various references)

Korean 

접촉 (Contact, contacting). (various references)

Manx

cheulinney (sideline, touchline), bentyn rish (affect, concern, relative, tamper, vis-a-vis, wash, wash of sea), bentyn da (belong, pertain, relate, relation, relevant, vis-\o'a-'-vis). (various references)

Maori

whaawhaa-ria (to touch). (various references)

Occitan

tocar (feeling), palpar (feel). (various references)

Papiamen

mishi. (various references)

Pig Latin

ouchtay.(various references)

Portuguese

toque (beat, dab, flourish, ringing, sounding, toque, touching), bulir (fidget, monkey, stir, tamper). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

toque. (various references)

Romanian

atinge (achieve, attain, compass, concern, contact, feel, gain, hit, hurt, jog, plug, reach, swat, top, trouble, win). (various references)

Romansch

tutgar (to touch). (various references)

Russian 

растрогать (move), трогать (affect, finger, handle, move, palm, paw, reach, tamper), тронуть (move), штрих (dash, line, trait), коснуться (concern), касаться (advert, adverts, be alluded to, concern, concern to, have respect to, regard, touch on, touch upon), осязание, оттенок (color, colour, contrast, nuance, savor, savour, shade, shade of, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, undertone), общение (association, communication, communion, intercommunication), манера (fashion, genre, guise, manner, trick), притрагиваться, прикосновение (contiguity, dab), прикасаться, испытание (assay, dry run, experience, experiment, noviciate, novitiate, probation, proof, test, trial, try), дотронуться. (various references)

Scottish

bean (handle, meddle, nf. g. mnatha; d. mnaoi; v. bhean; pl. mnathan; g.pl., wife, woman). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kontakt (contact). (various references)

Spanish

toque (blast, chime, crux, Flitch, groundsill, jar, knock, lap, stroke, test), tocar (beat, beat out, blow, bow, contact, fall on, fall to, fall upon, feel, finger, ground, handle, knock, knock at the door, leave, perform, play, press, rap, ring, sound, to touch, touch upon). (various references)

Sranan

meri, fasi (fixed). (various references)

Swedish

beröra (affect, refer to), vidröra (handle), snudda vid (crease, glance, graze), röra vid, känning (feeling, presentiment), beröring (contact, contiguity). (various references)

Tagalog

hipúin. (various references)

Turkish

teğet geçmek, taç (circlet, coronet, crown, diadem, tiara), temas (communication, contact, contiguity, feel), temas etmek (contact), tuş (digital, fall, key, push button), dokunma (contact, don't touch, feeling, handling, hands off, palpation, tact, tactile, tactual, touching), deneme (assay, bash, crack, dissertation, effort, essay, experiment, experimentation, fling, go, pilot, practice, probation, proof, proving, shakedown, shot, study, tentative, test, testing, trial, try, try out, whack, workout), değmek (be worthy of, bear, brush, kiss, merit, pay, pay off, worth), iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tincture, tinge, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal, wheal), bitişik olmak (abut, adjoin, be touching, border, neighbor, neighbour), işaret (augury, badge, character, chop, clew, clue, cue, device, distinguishing mark, earmark, ensign, foretoken, gesture, glimpse, graph, harbinger, hint, index, indication, indicator, landmark, logo, logotype, marker, note, pip, prognostic, prognostication, representation, sign, signal, signature, symbol, symptom, token, trace), dokunuş, duyarlılık (delicacy, emotionality, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentience, sentiment, sentimentality, susceptibility), elim sende oyunu (tag), ellemek (feel, finger, grope, handle, paw, play with), etkilemek (affect, cast a spell on, catch up, concern, dictate, enamor, enamour, enthral, enthrall, glamor, glamour, grip, impinge, impress, imprint, influence, inthral, lead, militate, operate, prepossess, reach, smite, spell, spellbind, sway, thrill, turn, turn smb.'s head), fırça darbesi (brush, stroke), dokunmak (affect, be intolerant of, clap, contact, disagree, feel, handle, kiss, tip), iletişim (channel, communication, transmission, transport and communication), üslup (fashion, genre, mode, strong language, wording), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, pique, scarify, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, wound), zerre (atom, corpuscle, corpuscule, crumb, grain, granule, iota, jot, mite, molecule, monad, mote, particle, rap, Ray, scintilla, shadow, sparklet, speck, tittle, vestige, whit), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, vanquish), para sızdırma (gouge, shakedown), para sızdırmak (blackmail, bleed, bleed smb., clean out, gouge, shake down, squeeze, tap), rötuş (retouch, retouching), yakalamaca, yaklaşım (approach), yetmek (answer, cover, get along, last, see through, serve, stretch, suffice), yolunacak kaz (sucker), incelik (civility, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, discretion, elaborateness, fineness, finesse, fragility, grace, gracefulness, keenness, niceness, nicety, point, polish, politeness, refinement, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtility, subtlety, tact, thinness). (various references)

Turkmen 

ellemek (handle), degmek (bump against). (various references)

Ukrainian

стикатися (clash, collide, contact, encounter, foul, impinge, impinge on, jostle, meet, osculate, telescope), спілкування (commerce, communion, converse, intercommunication, intercourse, society), торкатися (bear on, dab, handle, palp, touch on), штрих (hatch), доторкатися (hand), дотик (contact, dab, feel, osculation, tip, touching). (various references)

Vietnamese 

văn phong một chút, sự thử (assay, experiment, experimentalise, experimentalize, experimentation, tentative, try, try-out), sự sờ, sự mó, sự giao thiệp (contact, intercourse, term), sự dính líu (implication, involvement), sự đụng (collision), quan hệ (communion, rapport), một ít sự tiếp xúc, bút pháp (pen), đá thử. (various references)

Welsh

teimlo (feel, handle, manipulate), cyffyrddiad (contact), cyffwrdd (adjoin, meet), cis (buffet, slap). (various references)

tag. (various references)

adtigerit, adtigimus, adtingas, adtingebat, adtingerent, adtingit, adtracta, adtractaverit, adtractent, adtrectavimus, coherebant, coherentem, coherentes, coherentia, coheres, contagione, contigerat, contigerit, contigerunt, contigisse, contigisset, contigit, contingat, contingatis, contingebant, contingebat, contingent, contingere, continget, contingetis, contingi, contingit, contingunt, liba, libabant, libabitis, libabunt, libamus, libandum, libane, libans, libant, libantes, libare, libatis, libatoria, libaverint, libaverunt, libavit, libemus, libent, liber, libere, liberis, libet, pulso, tacta, tactas, tactum, tactus, tangam, tangant, tangat, tangatis, tange, tangebant, tangebat, tangens, tangere, tangeremus, tangerent, tangeres, tangeret, tanget, tangetque, tangit, tangitis, tangunt, tetigerant, tetigerat, tetigeris, tetigerit, tetigero, tetigerunt, tetigisset, tetigit, tetigitque. (various references)

ýûtô. (various references)

gretan, hrepian, hreppan, hrinan. (various references)

concernere. (various references)

touche, touchier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "touch": touchable, touchback, touchbacks, touchdown, touchdowns, touche, touched, toucher, touchers, touches, touchhole, touchholes, touchier, touchiest, touchily, touchiness, touchinesses, touching, touchingly, touchline, touchlines, touchmark, touchmarks, touchstone, touchstones, touchup, touchups, touchwood, touchwoods, touchy. (additional references)

Words ending with "touch": cartouch, mistouch, retouch. (additional references)

Words containing "touch": cartouche, cartouches, mistouched, mistouches, mistouching, retouched, retoucher, retouchers, retouches, retouching, unretouched, untouchabilities, untouchability, untouchable, untouchables, untouched. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Touch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Douch, Foutch, gouch, louch, nouch, Oooooch, Oouchi, rouch, stouch, teuch, Tijuca, Tikcha, toach, toch, Toluca, tooc, toosh, touc, touce, touchs, touci, touk, toutch, touth, trouc, truch, tuoh, Tuuth, tyuc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: couth.

-1 letter: ouch, thou.

-2 letters: cot, cut, hot, hut, out, tho.

-3 letters: ho, oh, to, uh, ut.

+1 letter: couths, scouth, touche, touchy.

+2 letters: cothurn, couther, couthie, futhorc, outchid, outecho, retouch, scouths, succoth, touched, toucher, touches, touchup, uncouth.

+3 letters: buckshot, cartouch, cathouse, checkout, coauthor, cockshut, cothurni, cothurns, couchant, couthest, couthier, euphotic, futhorcs, mistouch, outbitch, outcatch, outcharm, outcheat, outchide, outcoach, outmarch, outmatch, outpitch, outpunch, outreach, outwatch, pitchout, scouther, selcouth, shortcut, soutache, touchers, touchier, touchily, touching, touchups, tuckahoe, tuckshop, unclothe, watchout.