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say it: tuhch
touch is a verb and noun meaning "make physical contact with, come in contact with". It carries 27 recorded senses.
perceive via the tactile sense
“Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her”
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”
cause to be in brief contact with
“He touched his toes to the horse's flanks”
to extend as far as
“The sunlight reached the wall”
“Can he reach?”
“The chair must not touch the wall”
the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands)
“only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us”
a suggestion of some quality
“there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone”
“he detected a ghost of a smile on her face”
a distinguishing style
“this room needs a woman's touch”
a communicative interaction
“the pilot made contact with the base”
“he got in touch with his colleagues”
the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan)
“he watched the beggar trying to make a touch”
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
“she likes the touch of silk on her skin”
“the surface had a greasy feeling”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for touch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.