Touch-and-go

Definition: Touch-and-go

Touch-and-go

Adjective

1. Fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery".

Domain	Definition
Transportation	For an aircraft, to touch the runway briefly under permission. Source: European Union. (references)
	Practice landing in which aeroplane is permitted to touch runway briefly. Source: European Union. (references)
	A landing in which the aircraft does not come to a complete stop before starting another takeoff run. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Touch-and-go

Synonyms: parlous (adj), perilous (adj), precarious (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: touch and go (post & telecom, transportation), touch-and-go landing (transportation).

Crosswords: Touch-and-go

English words defined with "touch-and-go": parlous, perilous, precarious. (references)

"Touch-and-go" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Touch-and-go" is used about 7 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
Lexical Verb (base form)	100%	7	133,076

Language		Translations for "touch-and-go"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		接触�'�去. (various references)

Danish		touch-and-go landing (touch-and-go landing). (various references)

Dutch		touch-and-go-beweging, doorstartlanding (touch-and-go landing), aan de grond komen en doorvliegen. (various references)

Finnish		läpilasku (touch-and-go landing). (various references)

French		toucher (sense of touch, touch), impact suivi de remise des gaz, atterrissage pose-décolle (touch-and-go landing). (various references)

German		Aufsetzen und Durchstarten (touch-and-go landing). (various references)

Greek		έρχεται σε επαφή, προσγείωση επαφής και επανεκκίνησης για απογείωση (touch-and-go landing), προσγείωση επαφής και επανεκκίνησης (touch-and-go landing), επαφή και απογείωση, αγγίζει. (various references)

Hungarian		veszélyes dolog (touch-and-go business), veszélyes ügy (touch-and-go business), kockázatos dolog (touch-and-go business), kockázatos ügy (touch and go, touch-and-go business), felszállás leszállásból (touch-and-go landing). (various references)

Indonesian		sepintas (at a glance), selayang-pandang (at a glance). (various references)

Italian		tocca e va (touch-and-go landing), impatto all'atterraggio, contatto e ridecollo. (various references)

Korean		만지 그리� 가십시�". (various references)

Manx		dobbyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		ouch-and-gotay

Portuguese		toca e anda, situação incerta, perigoso (adventure, adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, hot, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, touch and go, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, venturesome), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, tottery, touch and go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), arriscado (audacious, breakneck, chanceful, dangerous, daring, hazardous, intrepid, perilous, precarious, risky, scabrous, speculative, ugly, unsafe, venturesome), arriscada ou perigosa. (various references)

Russian		рискованный (adventurous, buccaneering, chanceful, chancy, dangerous, dicey, hazardous, perilous, risky, risque, speculative, touch and go). (various references)

Spanish		toma y despegue, impacto al aterrizaje, aterrizaje y despegue (touch-and-go landing). (various references)

Vietnamese		việc liều, việc không chắc chắn ho� n cảnh nguy hiểm, mạo hiểm (venturesome), liều; khó th� nh, không chắc chắn (equivocal, pasteboard, unassertive, uncertainly), công việc mạo hiểm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-g-h-n-o-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: aunthood.
	-3 letters: cantdog, handout, hangout, octagon.
	-4 letters: cahoot, caught, chaunt, congou, dahoon, dought, gaucho, hagdon, hognut, hotdog, naught, nautch, nougat, nought, toucan, unhood.
	-5 letters: achoo, adunc, aught, canto, chang, chant, codon, cogon, cohog, condo, conga, congo, conto, cotan, cough, count, couth, daunt, donga, donut, dough, ducat, dunch, dutch, gaunt, ghaut, gonad, guaco, guano, haunt.
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