How to pronounce “touch”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• Primarily physical senses.
• Primarily non-physical senses.
• To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• To perform, as a tune; to play.
• To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• [Noun]
• An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
• A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• A little bit; a small amount.
• The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• (uncountable, in set phrases) A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• (obsolete) A brief essay.
• (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
• The children's game of tag.
• (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
• (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
• (UK, plumbing, dated) Tallow.
• Form; standard of performance.
• (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
• (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)

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