Connotation and Touch

noun

• What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
  • synonyms: intension
• An idea that is implied or suggested. .

(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

noun

• The event of something coming in contact with the body.
  • usage: "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"
  • synonyms: touching
• The faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands. )
  • usage: "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"
  • synonyms: sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses
• A suggestion of some quality.
  • usage: "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
  • synonyms: trace, ghost
• A distinguishing style.
  • usage: "this room needs a woman's touch"
  • synonyms: signature
• The act of putting two things together with no space between them.
  • usage: "at his touch the room filled with lights"
  • synonyms: touching
• A slight but appreciable amount.
  • usage: "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
  • synonyms: hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon
• A communicative interaction.
  • usage: "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
  • synonyms: contact
• A slight attack of illness.
  • usage: "he has a touch of rheumatism"
  • synonyms: spot
• The act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan. )
  • usage: "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"
• The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin.
  • usage: "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
  • synonyms: touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling
• Deftness in handling matters.
  • usage: "he has a master's touch"
• The feel of mechanical action.
  • usage: "this piano has a wonderful touch"

verb

• Make physical contact with, come in contact with.
  • usage: "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
• Perceive via the tactile sense.
  • usage: "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
• Affect emotionally.
  • usage: "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
  • synonyms: stir
• Be relevant to.
  • usage: "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
  • synonyms: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch on, have-to doe with
• Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.
  • usage: "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
  • synonyms: adjoin, meet, contact
• Have an effect upon.
  • usage: "Will the new rules affect me"
  • synonyms: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on
• Deal with; usually used with a form of negation.
  • usage: "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
• Cause to be in brief contact with.
  • usage: "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
• To extend as far as.
  • usage: "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach" "The chair must not touch the wall"
  • synonyms: reach, extend to
• Be equal to in quality or ability.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: equal, rival, match
• Tamper with.
  • usage: "Don't touch my CDs"
  • synonyms: disturb
• Make a more or less disguised reference to.
  • usage: "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
  • synonyms: allude, advert
• Comprehend.
  • usage: "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
• Consume.
  • usage: "She didn't touch her food all night"
  • synonyms: partake
• Color lightly.
  • usage: "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"
  • synonyms: tint, tinct, tinge

• (n.) Tallow; -- a plumber's term.
• (v.t.) To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from.
• (v.t.) To compare with; of be equal to; -- usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire.
• (n.) An act of borrowing or stealing.
• (n.) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040.
• (v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• (v.t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.) The particular or characteristic mode of action or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.
• (n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
• (v.t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• (v.) A slight and brief essay.
• (v.t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.
• (v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.
• (v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• (v.t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
• (v.) Feature; lineament; trait.
• (n.) A boys' game; tag.
• (v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
• (v.t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
• (v.i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
• (v.) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
• (v.t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
• (v.t.) To harm, afflict or distress.
• (v.) The act of touching or the state of being touched; contact.
• (v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
• (v.t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.
• (v.t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
• (v.i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
• (v.t.) To handle, speak of or deal with; to treat of.
• (v.i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
• (v.i.) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
• (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
• (v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• (v.) Personal reference or application.
• (v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
• (v.t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• (v.t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• (v.t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.
• (v.) An emotion or affection.
• (v.t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
• (v.t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
• (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.