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touch
  1. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
  2. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
  3. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
  4. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
  5. A little bit; a small amount.
  6. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
  7. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
  8. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
  9. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  10. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
  11. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
  12. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  13. (obsolete) A brief essay.
  14. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  15. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  16. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
  17. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, 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.
  18. The children's game of tag.
  19. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
  20. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
  21. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow
  22. Synonyms:
      23. contact, tap, brush, nudge, press, stroke, pat, poke, prod, glance, graze, hold, pressure, push, flick, taction, touching, blow, contingence, physical contact, jab, shove, jolt, elbow, butt, dig, bump, dig in the ribs, skim, shave, swipe, rub, kiss, jostle, smack, thrust, hit, knock, punch, strike, shoulder, thump, bash, thwack, jar, ram, dab, whack, stab, jog … more
  23. Examples:
      24. “Pip, for a moment, was overcome with emotion as he felt the touch of Joe's hand upon his shoulder.”
      “His touch was full of desire, yet wracked with apprehension.”
      “The soft fabric is specifically designed to titillate the touch of those who appreciate the finer things in life.”
toucher
  1. One who touches.
  2. (bowls) A ball lying in contact with the jack.
  3. (pejorative) A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.
  4. Examples:
      5. “It will show you pretty well how pipped I was when I tell you that I near as a toucher put on a white tie with a dinner-jacket.”
      “A marker must not move from his position except to observe whether a bowl is likely to become a toucher or to answer a question requiring a closer inspection.”
      “A bowl, however, that is forced on to the jack by another is not a toucher.”
touchstone
  1. A stone used to check the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them to leave a visible trace.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) A standard of comparison or evaluation.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. benchmark, standard, barometer, yardstick, bar, criterion, measure, guideline, indicator, mark, metric, model, precedent, grade, guide, reference, test, example, gage, gauge, norm, check, exemplar, hallmark, par, pattern, indication, gold standard, point of reference, litmus test, basis, rule, archetype, paradigm, specification, ideal, prototype, convention, formula, scale, canon, principle, index, guiding principle, baseline, sample, average, blueprint, reference point, meter … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “This attitude comes mostly from the idea that such values are the touchstone from which all else should be judged.”
      “In spite of producing unlimited quantities of gold, the touchstone remains the same.”
      “The closely watched investigation is rapidly becoming a touchstone case for the future of e-banking in South Africa.”
touchline
  1. (sports) One of the lines that mark the border limits of the pitch.
  2. Examples:
      3. “He pondered whether such video evidence might be used to counter the threat of a touchline ban.”
      “Reddin was suspended for ignoring fourth official Brett Bowden's touchline instructions.”
      “For once, the lineout maul was regenerated closer to the posts and O'Gara was able to float his pass towards an overlap near the left touchline.”
touchableness
  1. The quality of being touchable; tangibility.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. corporeality, materiality, physicality, substantialness, objectiveness, solidity, palpability, definiteness, distinction, embodiment, incarnation, manifestation, tactility, tangibleness, actualness, tangibility, perceptibility, reality, concreteness, presence, visibility, tactuality, touchability, actuality, truth, fact, verity, subsistence, realism, realness, life, existence, corporality, being, thingness, substantiality, substance, certainty, real life, individuality, entity, verisimilitude, absoluteness, matter, the real world, veracity, physical existence, how things are, like it is, way of it … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The touchableness of the fabric made it irresistible to pet.”
touchability
  1. The quality of being touchable.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tactility, tactuality, palpability, tangibility, corporeality, materiality, physicality, tangibleness, substantialness, touchableness, objectiveness, solidity, actualness, definiteness … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “So a thermware-lined cannister kept them at mine-temperature once they were warmed to touchability.”
touchingness
  1. The condition of being touching
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sympathy, tenderness
  3. Examples:
      4. “The touchingness of their reunion brought tears to everyone's eyes.”
touchiness
  1. the property of being touchy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. irritability, testiness, irascibility, petulance, peevishness, grouchiness, grumpiness, cantankerousness, pettishness, tetchiness, crossness, impatience, crankiness, huffiness, crotchetiness, sensitivity, moodiness, surliness, waspishness, snappiness, hypersensitivity, oversensitivity, spleen, querulousness, fretfulness, fractiousness, sulkiness, prickliness, edginess, curmudgeonliness, crustiness, rattiness, captiousness, quarrelsomeness, crabbedness, bad temper, quick-temperedness, bad-temperedness, hot-temperedness, short-temperedness, crabbiness, sullenness, biliousness, irritableness, annoyance, irascibleness, snappishness, anger, sourness, choler … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “But there's more to public touchiness over last week's sketch than just pious indignation.”
      “Or is it just organised touchiness, a non-issue mirrored and magnified as a great moral discourse signifying nothing?”
      “He hopes that, thanks to this respect, the touchiness of the Mexican government in respect to international observation might be reduced.”
touching
  1. The act by which something is touched.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caress, fondle, cuddle, fondling, embrace, squeeze, hug, pat, nuzzle, touch, petting, stroking, stroke, pet, feel, nuzzling, skim, endearment, snuggle, loving touch, rub, grope, rubbing, cuddling, hold, clutch, embracement, massage, kneading, fumble, rub-down, brush, titillation, clasp, feel-up, clinch, chuck, tickle, canoodle, light touch, encirclement, light prod, necking session, bear hug, tactility, feeling, sense of touch, contact … more
touchings
  1. Template:food served as side eats with alcohol beverages in an informal, friendly environment.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caresses, cuddles, fondlings, embraces, squeezes, hugs, pats, nuzzles, touch, petting, strokings, strokes, pets, feels, nuzzlings, skims, endearments, snuggles, rubs, rubbings, gropes, cuddlings, clutches, holds, embracement, titillation, massage, fumbles, tickles, brushes, chucks, kneadings, canoodles, clasps, bear hugs, encirclement, clinches, tactility, feelings, contact, handling, palpation, taction, juxtapositions, closeness, contingence, tangencies, contiguity … more
touchstones
  1. plural of touchstone
  2. Synonyms:
      3. benchmarks, standards, barometers, yardsticks, bar, criteria, measures, guidelines, indicators, marks, metrics, models, precedents, grades, guides, reference, tests, examples, gages, gauges, norms, checks, exemplars, hallmarks, pars, patterns, indications, gold standards, points of reference, litmus tests, bases, archetypes, rules, paradigms, ideals, specifications, scales, prototypes, conventions, canons, formulae, baselines, indexes, samples, metres, reference points, averages, meters, blueprints, principles … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “There are Australianisms of language and tone, Australian touchstones of reference, that should be consciously preserved.”
      “Small black stones were used as touchstones to test the colour, and hence purity, of gold.”
      “It's a caper film, with all the obligatory touchstones of the genre and everyone underacts to great effect.”
touchinesses
  1. plural of touchiness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. irritabilities, testinesses, irascibilities, petulances, peevishnesses, grouchinesses, grumpinesses, cantankerousness, pettishnesses, tetchinesses, crossnesses, impatiences, crankinesses, huffiness, crotchetinesses, sensitivities, moodinesses, surlinesses, waspishness, snappiness, hypersensitivities, oversensitivity, spleens, querulousnesses, fretfulnesses, fractiousness, sulkinesses, pricklinesses, edginesses, curmudgeonliness, crustinesses, rattiness, captiousnesses, quarrelsomeness, crabbednesses, crabbiness, sullennesses, biliousnesses, irritablenesses, annoyances, snappishnesses, irascibleness, angers, sournesses, cholers, irritations, perversities, perversenesses, excitabilities, piques … more
touchlines
  1. plural of touchline
touchers
  1. plural of toucher
  2. Examples:
      3. “Base touchers don't really care about what you've been up to and how you've been, unless it affects them.”
      “And then they are rising, coming toward him, the touchers and feelers.”
      “Bob of The Dream Team got 4 touchers on 1 end, great bowling Bob.”
touches
  1. plural of touch
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contacts, taps, brushes, nudges, presses, strokes, pats, pokes, prods, glances, grazes, holds, pressures, pushes, flicks, tactions, touchings, blows, contingences, caresses, fondlings, gropes, pettings, rubs, rubbings, strokings, cuddlings, embraces, hugs, feelings, feels, tactilities, handlings, palpations, textures, traces, bits, hints, suggestions, suspicions, spots, whiffs, dashes, drops, smacks, specks, tastes … more
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