Crossword clues for touching
touching
- Be in direct physical contact with
- The event of something coming in contact with the body
- Make physical contact with, come in contact with
- Perceive via the tactile sense
- Affect emotionally
- Be about
- Have to do with
- Be relevant to
- Make contact
- Concerned with using 1 10
- It pains me to kick out rector in Hertfordshire town for kissing
- Arousing feelings of sympathy or gratitude
- Refer, pertain, or relate to
- Comprehend
- Make a more or less disguised reference to
- Tamper with
- Be equal to in quality or ability
- To extend as far as
- Cause to be in brief contact with
- Usually used with a form of negation
- Deal with
- Have an effect upon
- Dye with a color
- The act of putting two things together with no space between them
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Touch \Touch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Touched; p. pr. & vb. n. Touching.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to E. tug. See Tuck, v. t., Tug, and cf. Tocsin, Toccata.]
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly.
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To perceive by the sense of feeling.
Nothing but body can be touched or touch.
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To come to; to reach; to attain to.
The god, vindictive, doomed them never more Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore.
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To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. [Obs.]
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed.
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To relate to; to concern; to affect.
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone.
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To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse.
--Chaucer. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
--Pope.-
To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity, compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in.
What of sweet before Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and harsh.
--Milton.The tender sire was touched with what he said.
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To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.
--Pope. To infect; to affect slightly.
--Bacon.-
To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch it.
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To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
[They] touched their golden harps.
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To perform, as a tune; to play.
A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.
--Sir W. Scott. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. `` No decree of mine, . . . [to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will,''
--Milton.-
To harm, afflict, or distress.
Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.
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To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
She feared his head was a little touched.
--Ld. Lytton. (Geom.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
To compare with; to be equal to; -- usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire. [Colloq.]
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To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from. [Slang]
To touch a sail (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
To touch the wind (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the wind as possible.
To touch up, to repair; to improve by touches or emendation.
Touching \Touch"ing\ (t[u^]ch"[i^]ng), a. Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
Touching \Touch"ing\, prep. Concerning; with respect to.
Now, as touching things offered unto idols.
--1 Cor.
viii. 1.
Touching \Touch"ing\, n. The sense or act of feeling; touch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"affecting the emotions," c.1600, present participle adjective from touch (v.).
"concerning, regarding," late 14c., from touch (v.), on model of French touchant.
Wiktionary
Provoking sadness and pity. n. The act by which something is touched. v
(present participle of touch English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Touching is the sixth album led by jazz pianist Paul Bley featuring tracks recorded in Copenhagen in 1965 and released on the Danish Fontana label.
Usage examples of "touching".
As he studied her sleeping face, he ached inside to stop the car and take hold of her, to whisper her name against her mouth, to tell her how much he loved her, how much he wanted her, so much that already his body-He cursed under his breath, reminding himself that he was closer now to forty than to twenty and that the turbulent, uncontrollable reaction of his body to the merest thought of touching her was the reaction of an immature boy, not an adult man.
The Deck Officer, now crouched low on the deck, his forward leg bent, his aft leg ruler straight, quickly waved his wand forward in a big arc, the wand finally touching the deck, then coming up to point straight ahead down the deck into the wind.
Pacino had been lectured for ten minutes by Alameda to not even think about touching the international emergency beacon.
Only Albedo stayed with the Pope as His Holiness walked into the room, allowing the kissing of his ring and touching the heads of the gathered men and women as they knelt again.
Cardinal Mustafa, Cardinal Lourdusamy, and Monsignor Oddi were looking at Councillor Albedo most attentively, but their holographic fingers were touching their holographic chests.
At the Bourges assembly the two churchmen agreed touching the supremacy of General Councils, the freedom of episcopal elections, the suppression of annates and the rights of the Gallican Church.
Touching her lightly on the arm, he turned her back for the long walk along the aqueduct, their shadows mingling, bending, and twisting along the high banks of encroaching sand.
I take my seat on a step of the stairs above the araucaria and, resting awhile with folded hands, I contemplate this little garden of order and let the touching air it has and its somewhat ridiculous loneliness move me to the depths of my soul.
There began the fierce conflict of antagonistic ideas touching the respective powers of the State and of the Nation--a conflict which, transferred to a different theatre, found final solution only in the bloody arbitrament of arms.
I began a more careful examination of the interior but without touching anything, and it was clean, almost as if it had been cleaned out.
Off and on during the day she had called to the aviary with her magic, touching the minds of the occupants to see how they did.
I q CHAPTER 9 With a touching awkwardness, Tucker maneuvered around the coffee table and stopped near the center of the long sofa, then stood helpless for a moment, trying to figure out how to sit down without bending his knee.
Julia relaxed slowly as Azar dabbed the perspiration from her forehead and murmured to her, touching her face tenderly.
I went to the place beside the bed where she had thrown it down, and as soon as she saw me touching it she begged me in a fright not to do so, as it was not clean.
The thought of Bevel -- of anyone -- touching any portion of the body resting so peacefully against his caused a growl to rumble in his throat, had him exposing his fangs and tensing his body for attack.