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Definition: Touch |
TouchNoun1. The event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air". 2. The faculty of touch; "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us". 3. A suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face". 4. A distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch". 5. The act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights". 6. A small but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic". 7. A communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues". 8. A slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism". 9. The act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch". 10. : the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling". 11. : deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch". 12. : the feel of mechanical action: "this piano has a wonderful touch". Verb1. Make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband". 2. Perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her". 3. Affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy". 4. Be about; have to do with; be relevant to; refer, pertain, or relate to; "What's this novel all about?"; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk". 5. Be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point". 6. Have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?". 7. Deal with; usually used with a form of negation; "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling". 8. Cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks". 9. To extend as far as, "The sunlight reached the wall";"Can he reach?". 10. : be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents". 11. : tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!". 12. : make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it". 13. : comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem". 14. : touch, as of food; "She didn't touch her food all night". 15. : dye with a color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "touch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Note: Touch \Touch\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Touched; Touching.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A habit common to the impecunious, causing in its victim a feeling of faintness, followed by a chill or a sense of loss. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Slang in 1811 | TOUCH. To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in the head; insane, crazy. To touch up a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. Touch bone and whistle; any one having broken wind backwards, accordi. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Touching is having or getting a zero distance; in geometry it refers especially to a tangent line or curve. See also collision.
Touch may simply be considered one of five human senses. However, when a person touches something or somebody this gives rise to various feelings: the perception of pressure (hence shape, softness, texture, vibration, etc.), heat, cold and sometimes pain. Thus the term "touch" is actually the combined term for several senses, see sense. Holding or moving something is usually done by touching (exceptions are e.g. blowing or using a magnet or engine), but this is sometimes done indirectly, e.g. with pliers.
Touching another person is a form of physical intimacy and plays an important role in human sexual behavior, but also in physical abuse, such as striking, pushing, pulling, pinching, kicking, etc.
Touching is a form of nonverbal communication [1].
Human babies have been observed to have enormous difficulty surviving if they do not possess a sense of touch, even if they retain sight and hearing. Babies who can feel the sense of touch, even without sight and hearing, fare much better. The implications are intriguing from an AI perspective. Touch can be considered a basic sense in that nearly all life forms have a response to being touched, while only a subset have sight and hearing.
See also frotteurism, grappling, massage, tickling.
Quote (Leonard Cohen): I needed so much/ To have nothing to touch/ I've always been greedy that way.. -from The Night Comes On (1984)
One can also be emotionally touched. In this sense it refers to some action or object that has evoked a sad or joyful emotion.
For example to say "I was touched by your letter" would not imply you were angered by it, but that you felt joy or sadness when reading it.
"Touch" is one of the most traditional Manga in Japan. It is about brothers who play baseball, trying to play at the Koushien. The youger brother is called the Katsuya, and the older brother is called Tastuya, and they were twins. In fact, Tastuya had never played baseball until he entered the high school. Comparing to this, Kastuya was a very fomous baseball player since he was in middle school, but he died when he was in the first grade in high school by a car accident. Kastuya's death made Tastuya play baseball to accomplish Kastuya's dream. When Kastuya was alive, these two boys fell in love with a same girl, called Minami, who was a childhood friend with Tastuya and Kastuya. After Kastuya's death, Tastuya and Minami supported eachother to accomplish eachother's goal. Tastuya's goal was to play baseball at the KOUSIENN, and Minami's goal was to do a good performance at the All Japan Gymnastic Tournament. They fell in love gradually but Tastuya can't show his emotions that he loves Minami because of his dead brother. He knew that Kastuya loved Minami too, so he feels a sense of guilt to Kastuya. This Manga creates a story of their difficult love and their enshusiasm towards their sports.
A 102-episode anime TV series, three movies, and one TV special were also produced.
Touch is a rock band.
Touch is also a record label concentrating on experimental electronic music - see Touch (record label). Touch is a novel by Elmore Leonard, later made into a film directed by Paul Schrader and starring LL Cool J, Christopher Walken, and Skeet Ulrich. touch is a program on Unix and Unix-like systems used for changing the date and timestamp on a file, but is also often used for creating an empty file. The command-syntax is:
touch [options]If that file exists, its current details are updated as if a user edited the file and saved it again, but if the file does not exist, a file with the name specified in the current directory will be created with a timestamp corresponding to the present time of the system clock. touch can also be invoked with a plethora of options to change the files timestamp to something other than the current date and time. The version of touch bundled in coreutils that is distributed by the FSF and found on most GNU/Linux systems was written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie and Randy Smith.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Touch."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Touch, the late 1983 Eurythmics album, featuring the songs "Here Comes The Rain Again" (1983, #4 US) and "Who's That Girl?" (1983 #17 US) a chilling, haunting melody in which brought fear to many hearts. In the video, Annie acts as a he and she, and at the end, he-Annie kisses she-Annie. In 1984, Annie Lennox dressed up like Elvis Preseley for the grammys, showing off the greatness of the album.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Touch (album)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Touch is a rock music band, formed in 1978.
Discography
- Touch I (1980)
- Touch II (1982)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Touch (band)."
Synonyms: TouchSynonyms: cutaneous senses (n), feeling (n), ghost (n), hint (n), jot (n), mite (n), pinch (n), sense of touch (n), signature (n), skin senses (n), soupcon (n), speck (n), spot (n), tactile sensation (n), tactual sensation (n), touch modality (n), touch sensation (n), touching (n), trace (n), adjoin (v), advert (v), affect (v), allude (v), bear on (v), bear upon (v), bepaint (v), come to (v), concern (v), contact (v), disturb (v), equal (v), extend to (v), impact (v), match (v), meet (v), partake (v), pertain (v), reach (v), refer (v), relate (v), rival (v), stir (v), tinct (v), tinge (v), tint (v), touch on (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Action | Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan). |
Contiguity | Verb: be contiguous; Adjective: join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere. |
Excitation | Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame. |
Experiment | Verb: experiment; essay; (endeavor); try, try out, assay; make an experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test, submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch, practice upon, try one's strength; road-test, test drive, take for a spin; test fly. |
Indication | Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent. |
Mixture | Tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon. |
Pity | Raise pity, excite pity; n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm. |
Receiving | Take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's purse; accept; take off one's hands. |
Relation | Verb: be related; Adjective: have a relation; Noun: relate to, refer to; bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to, belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest. |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
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Screenplays | You touch me, I bite (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) She won't touch it. (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet. Well, don't you touch me (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) You know you wreck everything you touch, Why don't you try and make something for a change (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) | |
Lyrics | Just a little of that Human Touch (HUMAN TOUCH; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) And sometimes when we touch (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill) And when i think about you I touch myself (I TOUCH MYSELF; performing artist: Divinyls) She seems to have an invisible touch yeah (Invisible Touch; performing artist: Genesis) Can't touch this ("U Can't Touch This"; performing artist: M.C. Hammer) | |
Clever | Money Isn't Everything, But It Sure Keeps The Kids In Touch. (references; author: unknown) Old folks say, "If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees. (references; author: unknown) You did touch me but didn't feel my pain. Jesus came and touched me, and I don't feel the pain any more. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Touch and Go (2003) A Touch of Genie (1974) The Evil Touch (1973) Pay Later Touch Now (1973) A Touch of Class (1973) | |
Song Titles | Touch Me (performing artist: The Doors) Now's The Time To Touch A Star (performing artist: Karl Franzen) Invisible Touch (performing artist: Genesis) TOUCH OF GREY (performing artist: Grateful Dead ) U Can't Touch This (performing artist: M.C. Hammer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Skin touch preparation showing Leishmania tropica amastigotes. Intact macrophage is practically filled with amastigotes, several of which have a clearly visible nucleus and kinetoplast (arrows). Parasite. Credit: CDC. |  | Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Kids at the "touch table" at Estuaries Day 1999 festivities. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Lt. Col. Mark Milardo, a missile officer with the North American Aerospace Command tracks Santa's journey. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" program features a six-language live-tracking Web site designed to bring a touch of the season to eager Santa wat. |  | Caption: Movie Still, "Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours." in the Black Maria; Unknown Date; {23.430/25} (jpg). |
 | ... 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.. |  | "The Master Touch" / [William] Sharp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Molder puts the finishing touch to a sand mold, while the ship was providing tender services in May 1969, probably in Subic Bay, Philippines. Credit: NAVY. |  | May God bless her an' may sorrer never touch her!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | We were once young ourselves, said Martha with a touch of tenderness : I thought you might like to have the old days recalled again to-night. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Royal Oak, Michigan. Children playing touch football. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "She touch me" by Juraj Miklas Commentary: "Krajina." | "Touch pad" by Toño Pérez Commentary: "Mouse." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. |
Jalal-Uddin Rumi | Only from the heart Can you touch the sky. |
Lily Tomlin | Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. |
Oscar Wilde | Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. |
Plato | At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | We never touch but at points. |
Samuel Butler | Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. |
Terence | To touch a sore is to renew one's grief. |
William Shakespeare | No beast so fierce but know some touch of pity. |
William Wordsworth | She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Emma could imagine she saw a touch of the arm at this speech, from his wife |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | It seemed very hard to reach down far enough to just touch the floor, as Sylvie led me through the study |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This sleep in this solitude, with a neighbour such as he, contained a touch of the sublime, which he felt vaguely but powerfully |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | There is no writer can touch sir Walter Scott |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Ah, Buckingham, now do I play the touch, To try if thou be current gold indeed |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Wilson stood by his broken car, and Sairy had gone to the mattress to sit beside Granma, but Sairy was careful not to touch her. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | To this hour they dare not presume to touch my bread, or drink out of the same cup, neither was I ever able to let one of them take me by the hand |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We cannot touch a string or move a stop but the charming moral transfixes us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Do not touch the stool of any animal. (references) | |
Never touch unfamiliar or wild animals. (references) | ||
It helps us run, walk, move, sit, and touch. (references) | ||
Business | Further, the gray market can keep in touch with changing technology requirements. (references) | |
These manufacturers choose their retailers carefully and stay in close touch with their customers. (references) | ||
Besides, leasing companies do not rely on branch networks, but rather just stay in touch with major dealers in Bangkok. (references) | ||
Economic History | Yemen | Handling these issues will require a deft political touch. (references) |
Egypt | U.S. firms must stay in close touch with client agencies to minimize doubts and uncertainties. (references) | |
Cyprus | The new Central Bank policy does not touch upon limitations applicable under other laws or regulations. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hong Kong | The courts also may interpret other provisions of the Basic Law that touch on central government responsibilities or on the relationship between the central authorities and the SAR, but before making final judgments on these matters, which are unappealable, the courts must seek an interpretation of the relevant provisions from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (in the controversial 1999 "right of abode case," the Government, not the court, sought an interpretation from the Standing Committee). (references) |
Travel | Barbados | Touch tone service and direct dialing is available. (references) |
Bulgaria | Travelers may hear recorded information by calling the Department at (202) 647-5225 from a touch tone telephone, or receive information by automated fax by dialing (202) 647-3000. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Poland | Once victims have contacted La Strada, the NGO puts them in touch with appropriate welfare offices. (references) |
Poland | At times La Strada is able to put victims in touch with lawyers who are willing to provide free services. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation. Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar! |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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David Berkowitz | I don't know. I don't know. I pray everyday for those that lost loved ones. And I pray that God would touch their lives and allow them to heal as much as possible. |
Robert Novak | Commissioner Ray Kelly, President Bush's homeland security reorganization doesn't touch the FBI, doesn't touch the CIA. It puts a lot of agencies in this new department. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | But however this may be, the only safe rule for us in interpreting the powers granted to the Federal Government is to regard the absence of express authority to touch a subject so important and delicate as this as equivalent to a prohibition. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | President, there are irresponsible people who would like to invade Cuba now and thus touch off a war. |
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| "Touch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.78% of the time. "Touch" is used about 6,218 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 61.78% | 3,842 | 2,539 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 31.02% | 1,929 | 4,436 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.15% | 445 | 13,012 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,218 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "touch" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Touch | Last name | 300 | 29,524 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "touch". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gatam | N/A | Biblical | Their touch |
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Expressions using "touch": a touch of irony ♦ a touch of jealousy ♦ Acupressure touch ♦ add a personal touch ♦ be a soft touch ♦ be in touch ♦ be in touch with ♦ be in touch with smb. ♦ be soft to the touch ♦ bring near and touch ♦ by sense of touch ♦ common touch ♦ do not touch ♦ do not touch me! ♦ Etheric touch ♦ false touch ♦ finishing touch ♦ first touch ♦ get in touch ♦ get in touch with ♦ get into touch ♦ get into touch with ♦ have a velvety touch ♦ Healing Touch ♦ in touch ♦ in touch with ♦ Intuitive touch healing ♦ it does not touch me at all ♦ Joy touch ♦ keep in touch ♦ keep in touch with ♦ keep in touch with smb. ♦ Kofutu Touch Healing ♦ light touch ♦ Light Touch Energy Healing ♦ lose touch ♦ lose touch with ♦ make out by touch ♦ make touch ♦ Master touch ♦ Metta Touch ♦ Midas touch ♦ nobody can touch him in irony ♦ not to touch with a bargepole ♦ not touch ♦ on the slightest touch ♦ put smb. into touch with ♦ put to the touch ♦ royal touch ♦ see touch ♦ sense of touch ♦ soft touch ♦ Sound Touch Therapy ♦ stay in touch ♦ Taoist Energy Touch ♦ the sense of touch ♦ Therapeutic Touch ♦ Therapeutic Touch inner work ♦ To be in touch ♦ to keep in touch ♦ To keep touch ♦ to the touch ♦ To touch a sail ♦ To touch and go ♦ To touch at ♦ To touch bottom ♦ To touch on ♦ To touch the wind ♦ To touch up ♦ to touch upon ♦ touch a raw nerve ♦ Touch And Breathe ♦ touch and go ♦ touch at ♦ touch base ♦ touch bottom ♦ touch call ♦ touch calling ♦ touch deeply ♦ touch down ♦ touch dry ♦ touch each other ♦ touch everything ♦ touch football ♦ touch for ♦ Touch for Health ♦ touch glasses ♦ touch hole ♦ touch in ♦ touch lines ♦ touch me not ♦ touch modality ♦ touch of the sun ♦ touch off ♦ touch on ♦ touch on the raw ♦ touch perception ♦ touch repeatedly ♦ touch right chord ♦ touch screen ♦ touch sensation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "touch": touch-and-close, touch-and-go, touch-and-go landing, touch-and-goes, touch-and-try, touch-body, Touch-box, touch-code, touch-control, touch-dampness, touch-down, touch-dry, touch-holes, touch-induced, touch-judge, touch-leger, touch-legering, touch-line, touch-me-not, Touch-needle, touch-of-a-button, touch-of-the-button, touch-opening, touch-operated, touch-pad, touch-paper, touch-parking, touch-passing, touch-ropes, touch-screen, touch-sensitive, touch-that, touch-tone, touch-type, touch-typist, touch-up, touch-ups, touch-wah, touch-worn. | |
Ending with "touch": one-touch, out-of-touch. | |
Containing "touch": do-not-touch-me, never-touch-earth, never-touch-woman, out-of-touch-with-reality. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mary kay in touch | 1,356 | museum please touch | 121 |
touch screen | 876 | in touch weekly | 109 |
touch | 613 | healing touch | 107 |
in touch magazine | 544 | touch screen monitor uk | 102 |
in touch ministry | 483 | auto touch up paint | 98 |
in touch | 475 | i touch myself | 97 |
touch screen monitor | 435 | brother p touch | 94 |
touch of class | 387 | touch typing | 92 |
one touch | 311 | touch me | 87 |
finishing touch | 280 | the bad touch | 86 |
touch up paint | 235 | sometimes when we touch | 77 |
solo touch | 222 | touch go | 75 |
one touch ultra | 207 | touch math | 70 |
touch america | 205 | car touch up paint | 70 |
touch of class catalog | 148 | one smart touch ultra | 69 |
slightest touch | 148 | tissot t touch | 66 |
mature touch | 136 | a touch of magic | 64 |
touch lamp | 130 | a touch of the master hand | 63 |
touch lcd screen | 129 | touch and go record | 62 |
the personal touch | 126 | p touch | 62 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "touch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aanraking, aanraak. (various references) | |
Albanian | trajtoj (attend, handle, reckon in, treat), të prekur, trondit (appal, appall, concuss, overwhelm, rattle, shake, shake up, shock, stagger, stir), ngjyroj (tincture), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total), cek (brush, dab, hug, Pat, skim, tip), emocionoj (choke up, effect, excite, thrill), fitoj (carry off, come by, come into, command, earn, fight down, gain, gain upon, get, get the best of, make, net, obtain, outfight, overcome, overthrow, possess, profit, pull in, realize, score, score off, take, win), grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, fleck, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, whit), ka lidhje me, komunikim (communication, intercommunication, intercourse, notice), mënyrë (cut, device, fashion, form, manner, mean, means, method, modality, mode, path, rate, sort, way, wise), çik (dab, graze, skitter), ndjek (attend, chase, follow, give chase, Hunt, lead, nose, persecute, prosecute, pursue, rattle, shadow, smell out, spoor, string along, tag, tail, take after, trace, track, track down, trail, tread), përkas (appertain, befall, belong, fall into, pertain, regard), pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, drop, full stop, globule, installation, leak, match point, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot), prek (adjoin, affect, attack, brush, feel, graze, handle, hit, hurt, move, palpate, penetrate, reach, rub, touch on, touch upon), prekje (affection, contact, feeling, fingering, handling, palpation, Tig, touching), prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, turn sour), provë (assay, audition, averment, demonstration, evidence, experiment, fact, fitting, flier, prill, probation, prolusion, proof, reasoning, rehearsal, run through, rush, school, seal, sign, substantiation, taste, tasting, test, trial, try, try on, try out, witness), shoqërim (accompaniment, attendance, concomitance, convoy, society, tracking), mjet (agent, apparatus, device, engine, expedient, implement, instrument, intermedium, mean, means, medium, mode, modus, recipe, route, tool, vehicle, wherewithal). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعرض للموضوع, أثر (bias, count, echo, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work), أثر في (affect, impact, influence, inspire, involve, manipulate, overawe, prepossess, react), أثار الشفقة (piteous, pitiful, stir), أصاب الهدف (hit, hit a target, hit one's aim, strike home), إرتبط بعلاقة مع, إستلف (scrounge), إتصال (contact, liaison, link, nexus, relation), جس (feel, necking, palpate, palpation, paw, pet, ply, probe, probing), صلة (communication, connection, connexion, copula, link, linkage, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, tie), ضرب ضربا خفيفا, ضربة خفيفة (clip, tip, trait), دخل في علاقة, طابع (distinctive quality, impress, label, printer, seal, trait), مسحة (bit, hue, shade, smack, streak, suggestion, tang, tinge, tint, trace), تعلق (affection, appertain, attach, become attached, cherish, cleave, concern, crush, depend, fixation, hold of smth., pertain, respect, snag, stick by smb., treasure), توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping), حرك المشاعر (affect), وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, voucher), وضع المسات الأخيرة, لمس (fell, finger, handle, perceive, sense), لمسة, هذب (chasten, civilize, cultivate, edify, educate, elevate, file, geld, lop, perfect, polish, prune, refine, retouch, revise, shear off, sublimate, touch up, trim), هيئة (appearance, aspect, body, cast, face, feature, form, framework, guise, make, organism, organization, shape, staff), مس (befall, contact, feel, finger, graze, handle, impinge, palpate, tip, twiddle), مس مسا خفيفا, ضربة في الرياضة. (various references) | |
Aymara | llamct'aña (to touch). (various references) | |
Basque | ukitu (feeling), ukimen (feeling). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | интересувам (interest), леко вълнение (ripple, tingle), лек пристъп, примес (admixture, adulterant, alloy, dash, dross, impurity, infusion, intermixture), похват (contrivance, knack, know how, procedure, process, resource, skill), покътвам, получавам добър резултат от, получавам (derive, gain, get, have, obtain, receive, turn), попарвам (blight, damp, frost, infuse, kill, nip, perish, scald, steam, wither), палпиране, допир (contact, incidence, osculation), пипам (feel, filch, handle, interfere, meddle, paw, trifle), маниер (demeanor, demeanour, fashion, manner, mode, sort, style, turn, way), имам общо с, имам ефект, измъкване на пари, измъкнати пари, изпитвам с пробен камък, достигам до (attain, meet, penetrate, run to), докосване (dab), докосвам се до, долепен съм до, допирам се до, пипвам (catch, cop, feel, grab, nab, nail, nip, pinch, pull, rap, snag), осезание (feeling), усещане от пипане, удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, cut, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), следа (footprint, ghost, odor, odour, print, rag, relic, relish, remnant, rudiment, savor, savour, scar, scent, scintilla, shadow, show, shred, sign, spice, tang, trace, track, trail, train, trait, vestige, whiff), справям се с (account for, cope with, cut, dispose of, hack, handle, meet, reckon with), щрих (hatch, stroke), туше, туширане (shading), трогвам (affect, move, penetrate, reach), контакт (contact, plug, point), гранича (abut upon, adjoin, bound, confine, neighbor, neighbour), закърпване, връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, contact, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie), засягам (advert, affect, afflict, apply, bruise, concern, effect, hit, hurt, import, offend, pique, refer, regard, tell, treat of), отсянка (nuance, quality, shade, tincture, tinge), оттенък (hue, overtone, savor, savour, spice, strain, tincture, tinge, undertone), оказвам нужното въздействие, общуване (association, communication, communion, companionship, connection, conversation, converse, fraternization, intercommunication, intercourse, society), нотка (flavour, note, suspicion, tinge), накърнявам честолюбие, мъничко (scruple, shade, smack, sprinkle, stick, thimbleful, tincture, trace, trifle), меря се с (match), майсторска ръка, стигам до (reach, reach down, remount, run into), гоненица (tag). (various references) | |
Chinese | 觸摸 , 觸 (knock against, to feel), 聯繫 (connection, contact, relation, to integrate, to link), 筆鋒 (stroke, the tip of a writing brush, vigor of style in writing), 接触 (contacting, Contiguous, touched, touching). (various references) | |
Czech | dotek (feel, Pat), dotýkat se (affect, concern, handle, touch upon). (various references) | |
Danish | berøring (contiguity, grappling), berøre. (various references) | |
Dutch | aanslag (assault, assessment, fur, moisture, scale). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tuŝo, tuŝi, fingrofrapo, ektuŝmaniero. (various references) | |
Faeroese | nerta (feel, grope). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرماسیدن (Palpate), پرماس , متاثرکردن (Affect), متاثرشدن (Pity), لمس کردن (Feel, Palpate, Stroke, Take), لمس دست زنی , حس لامسه , رسیدن به (Overtake, Reach), دست زدن به (Handle). (various references) | |
Finnish | koskettaa (touch upon). (various references) | |
French | toucher (sense of touch), touchez, touche. (various references) | |
Frisian | oanroere, oanreitsje, oanreitsing. (various references) | |
German | Berührung (contact, mention), berühren (affect, agitate, border on, concern, contact, handle, handling, meet, move, skim, to touch, touch on), rühren (affect, agitate, beat, budge, move, stir, stir up, to budge, touch on), anrühren (blend, mix, stir, touch on). (various references) | |
Greek | συγκινώ (affect, excite, move, thrill), εγγίζω (border on, draw near, graze), αγγίζω (feel, meet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להקיש (beat, knock, sound, strike, tap), קורטוב (bit, dash, iota, modicum, pinch, shade, smack, spot, taste, trace), לנגוע (smite), לנגוע ללב, לנשוק (kiss, meet together), לגעת (paw, tamper), נגיעה (connection, contact, relation, touching), להגיע (arrive, come, happen, reach, suffice), משמוש (feeling, manipulation, touching), להשיק, למשש (feel, fumble, grope, twiddle), למשמש (examine, feel, finger, handle, manipulate, rummage), למוש (depart, feel), מגע (connection, contact, feel, intercourse, liaison, relation), משוש (feel, feeling, palpation, touching), לגשוש (run aground). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapintás (feel, feeling, fingering, handle, sense of feeling), érintés (dab, twitch). (various references) | |
Indonesian | singgung (contact, nudge), sentuh, menyentuh, bersinggungan (contact), antuk (come in contact with). (various references) | |
Italian | toccare (affect, be turn, be up to, concern, fall, feel, finger, handle, happen, have, hurt, move, reach, to touch, touch each other, touch in). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 接触 (contact). ( |
