touch
Pronunciation: /tʌt͡ʃ/
The English word “touch” has 20 meanings listed here.
verb
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To have sexual intercourse with
- To cause to be briefly in physical contact with something.
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To begin to consume, or otherwise use.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
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”). Largely…
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