touch

v

1. feel, finger, thumb, palm; hold, pick up, handle, manipulate, twiddle, trifle with, play with; palpate, poke around in; examine or investigate or study with the hands, stroke, caress, pet, fondle, paw, Sl. feel up, Yiddish. glet; massage, knead, rub, press; pat, tap, tamp, rap; strike, hit, bop, conk, thump; poke, jab, elbow, hit; swat, whack, smack, Inf. lay a finger or a hand on.

2. meet, be or come up against, be in or come into contact with, be contiguous with, conjoin, adjoin, abut, border on, neighbor; graze, brush or rub up against, sweep against or across, scrape or drag against or upon; press up against, bump into, glance, crash into, collide with, impinge upon.

3. attain, reach, arrive at, make it to, get up to, come up to, get to, achieve, gain; measure up to, match, parallel, equal, be on a par with, be on equal footing with, Inf. stack up to; compare with, be a match for, be any comparison with, hold a candle to, be in the same class as, rival; approach, be compared with, come near, get close to, be as good as, be mentioned in the same breath as.

4. dab, dot, bedaub, spot, blot; dapple, speckle, bespeckle; mark, leave a mark on, leave a trace of; color, tinge, tincture, tint, tone; lace, interweave, intersperse.

5. touch down

land, make a landing, alight, hit ground, come into port or shore, drop anchor, splash down, set down, pancake, belly-flop, Aeron. belly-land; stop, make a stop, come to a stop or rest, make a pit stop; arrive, reach one's destination, get there, reach the end of one's journey; touch base, drop by or in, call on or up or in, keep in contact with, write to, talk to, visit.

6. affect, have an effect or impact on, influence, impress, make an impression; imbue, fill, inject with, instill with, ingrain with, inculcate with, indoctrinate with; inspire, inspirit, infect with, rouse, fire up, get all fired up, charge up, arouse, impassion, excite, stimulate.

7. reach, get through to, make contact with, get one's message to, make oneself heard, register with, make a dent in; strike a chord or familiar chord in, come home-to, Inf. hit home, Inf. sink in; move, stir, tug at the heartstrings of, play or work or act on or upon one's emotions, soften, melt; strike a nerve in, agitate, upset, perturb, nettle, disturb, shake, rattle, ruffle, disquiet; jolt, jar, shock, Inf. throw [s.o.] for a loop; sting, hurt, injure, grieve, cut to the quick, pierce, smite, Inf. hit [s.o.] where it hurts.

8. have anything to do with, be associated with, be a part of or party to; get or go near, get within ten yards of, go in the same room with, have [s.t.] in the house; use, utilize, employ, take, even try, Sl. mess with, Sl. mess around with.

9.Usu. touch on or upon treat, cover, deal with, go into; write about, speak of, talk about; mention, make mention of, remark on, comment upon, make a remark about, point out in passing; bring up, trot out, bring into the picture or discussion, go over, review; refer to, allude to, cite, quote.

10. pertain to, appertain to, be pertinent to, bear upon, have a bearing on, have reference to, regard, respect, have to do with; be on the subject or topic of, be in the area or field of, apply to, belong to, go with, go along with, fall or come under the category of; relate to, be connected or linked with, have a connection with, fit in with, be appropriate to or for, go, Sl. tie in with; concern, make a difference to, matter to, be important or significant to, be of importance or significance to, have meaning for, be of interest to, apply to, go for, have any connection with or relation to.

11. touch offa. initiate, begin, start, start off, Inf. kick off; set in motion, be the impetus or instigation for, motivate.b. set off, actuate, trigger, ignite, light, inflame, Inf. set the match to.c. invoke, bring to mind, bring back or up, help [s.o.] recall or remember, refresh [s.o.'s] memory.

12. touch up (of a painting, photograph, etc.) improve, better, enhance, spruce up, brush up, polish up, perfect, put the finishing touches on, culminate, top off; fix, fix up, patch up, repair, curé, heal, doctor, make corrections in, straighten out, rectify; cover up defects in, refurbish, give a face-lift to, disguise, gloss over, whitewash; amend, modify, change, rework, redo, revamp, rearrange; refine, revise, rewrite, edit, emend, emendate.

n

13. fingering, thumbing, palming; holding, handling, manipulation, twiddling; stroking, petting, caressing, fondling, pawing, Sl. feeling up; palpation, massaging, kneading, rubbing, pressing.

14. contact, taction, tangency, contiguousness, contiguity; abuttal, abutment, adjacency, juxtaposition; connection, conjunction, juncture, junction.

15. tactility, tactile sense, sense of touch or feeling, feel; feeling, sensation.

16. feel, feeling, denier, granulation, grain, texture, weave; structure, make composition, make-up; finish, coating, surface, veneer, outside.

17. technique, approach, attack, tack, procedure, routine, system, mode of operation, Inf. MO, Latin, modus operandi; style, way, manner, bedside manner, manner of working; sensitivity, sensitiveness, intuition, sixth sense, perceptivity, perception, insight, understanding.

18. dexterity, adroitness, right-handedness, deftness, slight, slight of hand, legerdemain; facility, skillfulness, neatness, felicity, finesse; skill, knack, faculty, ability, talent, gift, flair, genius, art, trick.

19. stroke, pat, tap, tamp, rap; swat, whack, smack, poke, jab, Inf. swipe; strike, hit, blow.

20. tad, dab, smack; bit, dash, smattering; trace, hit, suggestion; cast, coloring, tincture. See tinge(defs. 3, 5).

21. stroke, brush, line, jot, dash; detail, little thing, last addition.

22. action, movement, motion, operation, quality or level of performance or functioning or execution; springiness, quickness, ability to respond or react quickly, Mach. responsiveness; precision, fineness, detailing, subtleness, subtlety.