touch

Pronunciation

• enPR: tûch, IPA ^(key): /tʌʧ/
• SAMPA: /tVtS/

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Verb

Plain form touch

Third-person singular touches

Past tense touched

Past participle touched

Present participle touching

The man is touching the computer

1. (transitive) If you touch something, you feel it with your hand.

   Don't touch the oven -- it's hot and you will get a burn.

2. (transitive) If you touch something, you move so near to it that there is no space between you and it.

Noun

Singular touch

Plural es

1. (countable & uncountable) Touch is the act of feeling or coming into physical contact with something.

   A gentle touch of the fabric told her it was silk.

2. (uncountable) Touch is ability to feel through the skin by physical contact.

   After the accident, he lost his sense of touch.

3. (countable) A touch of something is a small amount of it.

   There was a touch of sadness in his voice.