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Sense Of Touch

Definition: Sense Of Touch

Sense Of Touch

Noun

1. The faculty of touch; "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Sense Of Touch

Synonyms: cutaneous senses (n), skin senses (n), touch (n), touch modality (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sense Of Touch

English words defined with "sense of touch": cutisdysaphiahapticimpalpable, intangibleskintactile, tactual, tangible, tegument. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sense of touch": counselor, orientation and mobilityinstructor of blindORIENTATION AND MOBILITY THERAPIST FOR THE BLIND, orientation therapist for blind, orientortherapist for blin. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sense Of Touch

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

You and Your Sense of Touch (1955)

A Sense of Touch (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Sense Of Touch

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

... the game ... is specially made for blind children who have to substitute the sense of touch for that of sight. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr..

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sense Of Touch

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Difficulty perceiving and identifying objects using the sense of touch. (references)

The doctor can use something sharp like a pin to test the sense of touch. (references)

Some children with cerebral palsy have impaired ability to feel simple sensations like touch and pain. They may also have stereognosia, or difficulty perceiving and identifying objects using the sense of touch. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Sense Of Touch

Expressions using "sense of touch": by sense of touch the sense of touch. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sense Of Touch

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  sense of touch painting

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sense Of Touch

Language Translations for "sense of touch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حاسة اللمس (feeling). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пипнешком (by sense of touch, gropingly). (various references)

   

French

  

toucher. (various references)

   

German

  

Tastsinn (tactile sensation). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חוש "משוש. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

感触 (feeling, sensation). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しょっか" (between meals, sense of being touched, tactile sense), か"しょく (a cold color, a compound color, do-nothing job, eating between meals, feeling, government service, leisurely post, sensation, sinecure, snacking, the rotting of lumber stored with poor air circulation). (various references)

   

Manx

  

keeall ventyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensesay ofay ouchtay

   

Romanian

  

simţul tactil (the sense of touch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dokunma duyusu (tactile sense, tactual sense). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sense Of Touch

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

tactum, tactus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Sense Of Touch

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-h-n-o-o-s-s-t-u"

-3 letters: outechoes.

-4 letters: chutnees, confuses, confutes, contuses, countess, cuteness, ecotones, eftsoons, enthuses, ethnoses, festoons, foetuses, outshone, stenches, toeshoes.

-5 letters: cenotes, chooses, chouses, chutnee, cohosts, cohunes, confess, confuse, confute, contuse, ecotone, eftsoon, enthuse, ethoses, fescues, festoon, fetches, fetuses, focuses, fucoses, hocuses, hotness, nostocs, notches, outecho, outseen, outsees, scouths, softens, soonest, soothes, tenches, toeshoe, tonuses, touches.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sense Of Touch


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6E 73 65      4F 66      54 6F 75 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01100110 00100000 01010100 01101111 01110101 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#117 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006E 0073 0065      004F 0066      0054 006F 0075 0063 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53718085712497225481876974

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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