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Definitions: Tactile |
TactileAdjective1. Of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex". 2. Producing a sensation of touch; "tactile qualities"; "the tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tactile" was first used: 1615. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TASO | English | Tactile acoustical screen orientation | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TactileSynonyms: haptic (adj), tactual (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Touch | Adjective: tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tactile |
| English words defined with "tactile": barbel ♦ cirrus ♦ Diaphemetric ♦ Esthesiometer ♦ feeler ♦ haptic, hypesthesia, hypoesthesia ♦ Pacinian corpuscles ♦ sense organ ♦ tactile property, tactile sensation, tactual, tentacle, Tentaculum, texture, touch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tactile": Anesthetics ♦ Brown-Sequard Syndrome ♦ electric-meter tester, shop, Epilepsy, Partial, Sensory ♦ inside tester, INSIDE-METER TESTER ♦ Milk Ejection. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tactile" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (tactile). |
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Screenplays | I want the tactile pleasure in cutting him here (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Display of interagency public lands tactile model at the Oregon Zoo.Credit: Rich Ray. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Lesions of the somatic nervous pathways may impair reflexogenic erections and may interrupt tactile sensation needed to maintain psychogenic erections. (references) | |
Some of the other behaviors associated with Fragile X are similar to those of autism, including hand flapping, hand biting, poor eye contact, and tactile defensiveness (responding negatively to being touched). (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tactile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.57% of the time. "Tactile" is used about 140 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.57% | 138 | 27,024 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.43% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 140 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tactile": tactile hair ♦ tactile organ ♦ tactile paving surface ♦ tactile property ♦ tactile sensation ♦ tactile sense ♦ tactile sensing ♦ tactile sensor. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tactile": audio-visual-tactile, vibro-tactile, visuo-tactile. | |
| 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 |
tactile | 70 |
tactile switch | 26 |
tactile 12000 | 20 |
tactile message | 15 |
dome tactile | 15 |
tactile defensiveness | 12 |
graphic tactile | 11 |
kinesthetic learning tactile | 10 |
learning tactile | 7 |
tactile 1200 | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tactile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i prekshëm (huffy, palpable, sensitive, susceptible, tangible, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous, vulnerable), i prekjes (tactual). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملموس (palpable, perceptible, sensible, tangible), مختص بحاسة اللمس, لمسي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | осезателен (palpal, perceivable, tactual, tangible), осезаем (corporeal, palpable, perceivable, perceptible, phenomenal, sensible, tangible). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有触觉. (various references) | |
Czech | taktilní, hmatový. (various references) | |
Danish | taktil, foelelig. (various references) | |
Dutch | tactiel. (various references) | |
Finnish | tuntoelin (contour follower, copying sensor, copying stylus, detecting device, feeler, follower, probe, sensing element, sensor, tactile organ, tracer, tracer finger), tuntoaistinkalvo (artificial skin, tactile sensor), tuntoaistin (artificial skin, tactile sensor), tuntoaisti (tactile sense). (various references) | |
French | tactile. (various references) | |
German | fühlbar (marked, palpable, palpably, perceptible, sensible, tangible), taktil, greifbar (available, concrete, palpable, seizable, tangible, tangibly). (various references) | |
Greek | απτόσ (tangible, touchable), ψηλαφητόσ (palpable, touchable). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משושי (palpable). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapintható (palpable, tangible), tapintási (tactual). (various references) | |
Italian | tattile. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 触感 (sense of being touched, sense of touch, tactile sense). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょっか" (between meals, sense of being touched, sense of touch, tactile sense). (various references) | |
Manx | bentynagh (pertinent, tangent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actiletay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tangível (actuals, cash commodities, physicals, tangible, touchable), tátil (tactual), palpável (palpable, tangible, touchable). (various references) | |
Romanian | tangibil (palpable, tangible, touchable), tactil. (various references) | |
Russian | осязаемый (palpable, tangible, touchable). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | taktilni (tactual), dodirni (tactual, tangent). (various references) | |
Spanish | táctil. (various references) | |
Swedish | taktil, känsel-, berörings-. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งรับรู้ไ"้"้วยการสัมผัส. (various references) | |
Turkish | elle tutulur (acceptable, concrete, palpable, tactual, tangible), dokunulur (tactual), dokunsal (tactual), dokunma (contact, don't touch, feeling, handling, hands off, palpation, tact, tactual, touch, touching). (various references) | |
Ukranian | тактильний, відчутний (appreciable, apprehensible, notable, perceivable, perceptible, phenomenal, ponderable, sensate, sensible), дотиковий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | r nh r nh (blazing, downright, emphatic, flagrant, glaring, glaringly, glary), hiển nhiên (apodeictic, apodictic, apodictical, apparent, axiomatic, axiomatical, blatant, evident, flagrant, glaring, glaringly, glary, incontrovertible, manifest, naked, notorious, obvious, patent, patently, self-apparent, self-evident, tangible, visibly, well-marked). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tactilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tactile": tactilely. (additional references) | |
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"Tactile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dactile, factile, tactal, tacticle, tactil, tactilke, tactilly, tactily, tactite, tactitle, tactlie, tactul, tastle, tertile, titile, tocile. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tactile" (pronounced ta"ktul or ta"ktī'l) |
| 5 | -a" k t u l | artiodactyl, fractal. |
| 4 | -k t u l | ductile, projectile, rectal. |
| 3 | -t u l | accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, infantile, infertile, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tattle, temperamental, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t ī' l | freestyle, gentile, hairstyle, lifestyle, mercantile, percentile, peristyle, textile, turnstile. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lattice. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-t-t" | |
-1 letter: atelic, cattie, cattle, tectal. | |
-2 letters: atilt, attic, cleat, eclat, ileac, latte, tacet, tacit, tecta, telia, telic, tical, title. | |
-3 letters: alec, alit, cate, ceil, celt, cite, clit, etic, ilea, lace, laic, late, lati, lice, lite, tace, tact, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, tate, teal, teat, tela, tile, tilt. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ail, ait, ale, alt, ate, att, cat, cel, eat, eta, ice, lac, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lit, tae, tat, tea, tel, tet, tic, tie, til, tit. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, al, at, el, et, it, la, li, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-t-t" | |
+1 letter: athletic, latticed, lattices, thetical, tractile. | |
+2 letters: athletics, autotelic, cavaletti, cobaltite, cultivate, lateritic, tactilely, triticale. | |
+3 letters: actinolite, articulate, cantillate, capitulate, catabolite, catalectic, cataleptic, cavalletti, centralist, centrality, clattering, cobaltites, colatitude, cultivated, cultivates, elasticity, ethicality, facilitate, felicitate, licentiate, pathetical, recitalist, reticulate, retractile, stalactite, tailcoated, telepathic, testicular, theatrical, theistical, thetically, triplicate, triticales, unathletic, wildcatted, wildcatter. | |
+4 letters: acatalectic, acetylating, acetylation, acetylative, actinolites, actualities, aesthetical, altercating, altercation, anticruelty, articulated, articulates, atelectasis, atheistical, athleticism, blastematic, cantillated, cantillates, capitulated, capitulates, cappelletti, catabolites, catalectics, cataleptics, catholicate, centralists, centripetal, cholestatic, clarinetist, cocultivate, colatitudes, committable, continental, contractile, crystallite, curtailment, delectation, denticulate, egotistical, elicitation, epithetical, facilitated, facilitates, factitively, facultative, felicitated, felicitates, felicitator, gesticulant, gesticulate, intercalate, intercostal, intractable, intrathecal, intricately, latticework, licentiates, matriculate, mentalistic, metaethical, metaplastic, multicoated, nonathletic, obstetrical, particulate, peristaltic, protractile, recitalists, recommittal, recultivate, reluctating, reluctation, reticulated, reticulates, rickettsial, scintillate, stalactites, straitlaced, strategical, tactilities, telecasting, teratologic, tetanically, theatricals, theoretical, tonetically, triplicated, triplicates, verticality, wildcatters. | |
+5 letters: acatalectics, acetonitrile, acetylations, actabilities, altercations, anecdotalist, anelasticity, anthelmintic, antielectron, antiparticle, antithetical, arithmetical, articulately, articulative, atheoretical, athletically, athleticisms, attractively, bathetically, catechetical, catholicates, centralistic, centralities, clarinetists, clarinettist, clatteringly, cocultivated, cocultivates, conglutinate, consultative, continentals, contractible, crystallites, cultivatable, curtailments, cutabilities, delectations, denticulated, detractively, dietetically, dilatometric, distractable, distractedly, distractible, ecstatically, effectuality, elasticities, electability, elicitations, ethicalities, excitability, extractively, facilitative, factualities, felicitating, felicitation, felicitators, fluidextract, gesticulated, gesticulates, gesticulator, hypothetical, inarticulate, inelasticity, intellectual, intercalated, intercalates, intercoastal, intercostals, interfaculty, latticeworks, literalistic, mathematical, matriculated, matriculates, mercantilist, metagalactic, metathetical, meteoritical, multifaceted, multitracked, neutralistic, osteoblastic, osteoclastic, osteoplastic, particulates, pathetically, placentation, plasticities, rearticulate, recalcitrant, recapitulate, recommittals, recultivated, recultivates, relativistic, reluctations, reticulately, reticulating, reticulation, retinotectal, retractility, scatteringly, schmaltziest, scintillated, scintillates, sextuplicate, spectatorial, technicality, tectonically, tetracycline, theatrically, theistically, thematically, theocratical, topicalities, traceability, typicalities, uncultivated, verticillate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 63 74 69 6C 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -.-. - .. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a c t i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0063 0074 0069 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54676986757871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Abbreviations 14. Acronyms 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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