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Definition: Sense Of Touch |
Sense Of TouchNoun1. 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 TouchSynonyms: cutaneous senses (n), skin senses (n), touch (n), touch modality (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sense Of Touch |
| English words defined with "sense of touch": cutis ♦ dysaphia ♦ haptic ♦ impalpable, intangible ♦ skin ♦ tactile, tactual, tangible, tegument. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sense of touch": counselor, orientation and mobility ♦ instructor of blind ♦ ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY THERAPIST FOR THE BLIND, orientation therapist for blind, orientor ♦ therapist for blin. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & 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.. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
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. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sense of touch painting | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 simţul tactil (the sense of touch). (various references) dokunma duyusu (tactile sense, tactual sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tactum, tactus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 73 65      4F 66      54 6F 75 63 68 |
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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)S e n s e   O f   T o u c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0073 0065      004F 0066      0054 006F 0075 0063 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53718085712497225481876974 |
| 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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