Meaning of "touch" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TOUCH

From Old French tochier, from Vulgar Latin toccāre (unattested) to strike, ring (a bell), probably imitative of a tapping sound.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TOUCH

touch  [tʌtʃ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOUCH

Touch is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb touch in English.

WHAT DOES TOUCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Somatosensory system

The somatosensory system is a complex sensory system. It is made up of a number of different receptors, including thermoreceptors, photoreceptors, mechanoreceptors and chemoreceptors. It also comprises essential processing centres, or sensory modalities, such as proprioception, mechanoreception, thermoception, and nociception. The sensory receptors cover the skin and epithelia, skeletal muscles, bones and joints, internal organs, and the cardiovascular system. While touch is considered one of the five traditional senses, the impression of touch is formed from several modalities including pressure, skin stretch, vibration and temperature. In medicine, the colloquial term "touch" is usually replaced with "somatic senses" to better reflect the variety of mechanisms involved. Somatic senses are sometimes referred to as somesthetic senses, with the understanding that somesthesis includes touch, proprioception and also haptic perception.

Definition of touch in the English dictionary

The first definition of touch in the dictionary is the sense by which the texture and other qualities of objects can be experienced when they come in contact with a part of the body surface, esp the tips of the fingers related adjectives haptic tactile tactual. Other definition of touch is the quality of an object as perceived by this sense; feel; feeling. Touch is also the act or an instance of something coming into contact with the body.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TOUCH

PRESENT

Present

I touch

you touch

he/she/it touches

we touch

you touch

they touch

Present continuous

I am touching

you are touching

he/she/it is touching

we are touching

you are touching

they are touching

Present perfect

I have touched

you have touched

he/she/it has touched

we have touched

you have touched

they have touched

Present perfect continuous

I have been touching

you have been touching

he/she/it has been touching

we have been touching

you have been touching

they have been touching

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I touched

you touched

he/she/it touched

we touched

you touched

they touched

Past continuous

I was touching

you were touching

he/she/it was touching

we were touching

you were touching

they were touching

Past perfect

I had touched

you had touched

he/she/it had touched

we had touched

you had touched

they had touched

Past perfect continuous

I had been touching

you had been touching

he/she/it had been touching

we had been touching

you had been touching

they had been touching

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will touch

you will touch

he/she/it will touch

we will touch

you will touch

they will touch

Future continuous

I will be touching

you will be touching

he/she/it will be touching

we will be touching

you will be touching

they will be touching

Future perfect

I will have touched

you will have touched

he/she/it will have touched

we will have touched

you will have touched

they will have touched

Future perfect continuous

I will have been touching

you will have been touching

he/she/it will have been touching

we will have been touching

you will have been touching

they will have been touching

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would touch

you would touch

he/she/it would touch

we would touch

you would touch

they would touch

Conditional continuous

I would be touching

you would be touching

he/she/it would be touching

we would be touching

you would be touching

they would be touching

Conditional perfect

I would have touch

you would have touch

he/she/it would have touch

we would have touch

you would have touch

they would have touch

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been touching

you would have been touching

he/she/it would have been touching

we would have been touching

you would have been touching

they would have been touching

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you touch
we let´s touch
you touch

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to touch

Past participle

touched

Present Participle

touching

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «TOUCH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «touch» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of touch

ability · abut · accessory · acquaintance · addition · adjoin · adroitness · affect · approach · art · artistry · ask · association · attain · awareness · beg · bit · border · brush · caress · characteristic · come to · come up to · command · communication · connection · consume · contact · converge · correspondence · craft · dash · deal with · deftness · detail · direction · disturb · do · drink · drop · eat · effect · equal · facility · familiarity · feature · feel · feeling · finger · flair · fondle · graze · hand · handiwork · handle · handling · have to do with · hint · hit · hold · impress · influence · inspire · intimation · involve · jot · knack · lay a finger on · management · manner · mark · mastery · match · meet · melt · method · move · nicety · nudge · palpate · palpation · parallel · pat · pinch · poke · press · prod · push · reach · rise to · rival · skill · smack · smattering · soften · speck · spot · stir · strike · stroke · style · suggestion · suspicion · tactility · take · take care of · tap · taste · technique · tincture · tinge · trace · trademark · understanding · upset · use · utilize · virtuosity · way · whiff

TRANSLATION OF TOUCH

Find out the translation of touch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of touch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «touch» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 触摸
• Translator English - Spanish: tocar
• English: touch
• Translator English - Hindi: स्पर्श
• Translator English - Arabic: يَلْمِسُ
• Translator English - Russian: трогать
• Translator English - Portuguese: tocar
• Translator English - Bengali: স্পর্শ
• Translator English - French: toucher
• Translator English - Malay: Sentuh
• Translator English - German: berühren
• Translator English - Japanese: 触れる
• Translator English - Korean: 만지다
• Translator English - Javanese: Tutul
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chạm vào
• Translator English - Tamil: தொட
• Translator English - Marathi: स्पर्श करा
• Translator English - Turkish: dokunma
• Translator English - Italian: toccare
• Translator English - Polish: dotknąć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: торкатися
• Translator English - Romanian: a atinge
• Translator English - Greek: αγγίζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: raak
• Translator English - Swedish: vidröra
• Translator English - Norwegian: berøre

10 QUOTES WITH «TOUCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word touch.

1

Viswanathan Anand

You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

2

Laurie Halse Anderson

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

3

Richard Armitage

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

4

Dan Aykroyd

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

5

Leonard Baskin

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

6

Nikki Blonsky

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

7

David Blunkett

We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.

8

Vanna Bonta

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

9

David Josiah Brewer

The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

10

Gabriel Byrne

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOUCH»

Discover the use of touch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to touch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Touch

An essay on the importance of touch to children's growth and development and to the physical and mental well-being of people of all ages.

Tiffany Field, 2003

The Chocolate Touch

Can you ever have too much of your favorite food? John Midas is about to find out…. First published in 1952, The Chocolate Touch was an instant classic—and has remained a timeless favorite with kids, teachers, and parents.

Patrick Skene Catling, 2013

Touch: Graphic Design with Tactile Appeal

Touch Graphics celebrates innovative graphic design that uses materials to send a message. Fur, cloth, vellum, metal, and more -- here are designs whose tactile allure is fascinating and memorable.

Ferdinand Lewis, Rita Street, 2003

Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty

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Erin Manning, 2007

TOUCH: Pressing Against the Wounds of a Broken World

" TOUCH is the amazing story of Rudy's life and ministry of grace that is changing lives daily.

Pastor Rudy Rasmus, 2008

Touch Blue

Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord offers a warm-hearted, humorous, and thoughtful look at what it means to belong--and how lucky we feel when we do. Touch Blue, sure as certain, will touch your heart.

Cynthia Lord, 2012

Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media

In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself.

Laura U. Marks, 2002

The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism

Part thinking-man's fan crush, part crazily inspired remix of the most beloved of film genres, this book will force scholars and film lovers alike to view film noir afresh

Shannon Scott Clute, Richard L. Edwards, 2011

Sencha Touch 2 Up and Running

Launch into Sencha Touch 2 with this hands-on book, and quickly learn how to develop robust mobile web apps that look and behave like native applications.

Adrian Kosmaczewski, 2013

The Book of Touch

What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.

Constance Classen, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOUCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term touch is used in the context of the following news items.

Apple iPod touch (6th-generation): Early impressions

Reviewing an iPod touch in 2015 is a strange proposition. Most people already have smartphones, often with a better camera and bigger screen than you'll find ... «Gizmag, Jul 15»

New A8 iPod Touch Clocks in at 1.10GHz, Includes 1GB RAM and …

The new iPod touch with an A8 processor and upgraded 8-megapixel rear camera just launched this morning, but TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino already has ... «Mac Rumors, Jul 15»

Apple's next iPhone will have a Force Touch display, says WSJ

The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that the next iPhone, ostensibly known as the iPhone 6S, will include a Force Touch display, similar to the screen ... «The Verge, Jul 15»

What Force Touch-enabled iPhones mean for users

He later explained that, “… because Force Touch gestures are invisible to users, it will be difficult to make use of the feature in a way that is not also available via ... «Fortune, Jul 15»

Apple Suppliers Said to Start Making IPhones With Force Touch

Apple Inc. has started early production of new iPhone models with a feature called Force Touch, which senses how hard users are pressing down on a screen, ... «Bloomberg, Jun 15»

Oculus Previews “Oculus Touch” Handheld Motion-Tracking Haptic …

Oculus wants to go beyond the Xbox One controller shipping with the Rift, so today it showed off the prototype of Oculus Touch, a set of handheld motion ... «TechCrunch, Jun 15»

Apple spreads Force Touch trackpad to 15-in. MacBook Pro

Apple today refreshed the 15-in. MacBook Pro, adding its new Force Touch trackpad to the laptop to match the move made in March on the smaller 13-in. model. «Computerworld, May 15»

Bruce Jenner's Transformation: How Does He Plan on Coming Out …

“He will come clean in 2015 about transitioning,” a source close to the reality star tells 'In Touch.' “This will be the year of his coming out. He knows that people ... «In Touch Weekly, Jan 15»

'Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend.'

"Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend," Mike Jones deadpanned as he walked by. The president and Aia Cooper, the man's fiancee, were standing ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»

Why Apple should add Touch ID to its Macs

When Apple announces new iPad models later this week, everyone expects they'll include the same Touch ID sensor that debuted in the iPhone 5s a year ago. «InfoWorld, Oct 14»