touch
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(noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights" |
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Synonyms: touching |
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Related Words: brush, buss, catch, contact, contacting, dab, deed, dig, effort, exploit, feat, feeling, grab, grazing, handling, hit, hitting, jab, kiss, lap, lick, manipulation, osculation, pat, shaving, skimming, snap, snatch, striking, tag, tap, tickle, tickling |
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(verb) comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem" |
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Related Words: understand |
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(verb) be in contact with |
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Synonyms: adjoin, meet |
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Related Words: abut, adhere, adjoin, attach, border, butt, butt against, butt on, chafe, cling, cohere, cover, edge, fray, fret, hug, lean against, lean on, rest on, rub, scratch, skirt, spread over, stick, surround |
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(verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"; "The two buildings almost touch" |
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Related Words: brush, buss, caress, collide with, engage, feel, finger, handle, hit, impinge on, kiss, mouth, osculate, palm, palpate, pick up, press, run into, skim, skim over, strike, tag, thumb, toe, touch |
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(verb) cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks" |
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Related Words: touch |
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(verb) temper with; "Don't touch my CDs!" |
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Synonyms: disturb |
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Related Words: alter, change, upset, violate |
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(verb) affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy" |
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Synonyms: stir |
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Related Words: affect, get, impress, move, strike |
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(verb) perceive via the tactile sense |
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Related Words: comprehend, perceive |
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(verb) 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" |
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Related Words: care, deal, handle, manage |
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(noun) a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch" |
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Synonyms: signature |
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Related Words: common touch, fashion, manner, mode, style, way |
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(noun) the feel of mechanical action: "this piano has a wonderful touch" |
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Related Words: feel, tactile property |
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(noun) deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch" |
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Related Words: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness |
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(noun) the faculty of touch; "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us" |
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Synonyms: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality |
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Related Words: exteroception, somatosense |
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(noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" |
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Synonyms: feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation |
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Related Words: cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, perception, skin sensation |
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(noun) a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" |
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Synonyms: ghost, trace |
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Related Words: proffer, proposition, suggestion |
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(noun) the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch" |
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Related Words: solicitation |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: touching |
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Related Words: brush, contact, impinging, light touch, striking, stroke |
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(noun) a small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" |
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Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck |
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Related Words: small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity |
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(noun) a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism" |
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Synonyms: spot |
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Related Words: attack |
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(verb) make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" |
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Synonyms: advert, allude |
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Related Words: hint, suggest |
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(verb) touch, as of food; "She didn't touch her food all night" |
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Synonyms: partake |
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Related Words: consume, have, ingest, receive, take, take in |
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(verb) be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability" |
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Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
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Related Words: compete, contend, vie |
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(noun) a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues" |
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Synonyms: contact |
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Related Words: communicating, communication |
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(verb) to extend as far as, "The sunlight reached the wall";"Can he reach?" |
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Synonyms: extend to, reach |
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Related Words: be, reach into |
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(verb) dye with a color |
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Synonyms: bepaint, tinct, tinge, tint |
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Related Words: dye, henna, tincture |
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(verb) have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
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Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
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Related Words: act upon, alter, bother, change, discommode, disoblige, endanger, expose, hit, incommode, inconvenience, influence, peril, process, put out, queer, redound, scupper, strike, subject, tell on, treat, trouble |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
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Related Words: affect, apply, center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, go for, hold, interest, involve, matter to, regard, revolve about, revolve around |
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