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(transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with. / (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

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touch

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tʌt͡ʃ/

transitive intransitive reflexive historical obsolete archaic dated Scottish slang in negative constructions

(transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with. / (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）身体の一部（手、指など）を使って、物体に触れる、またはその接触を起こすこと。 / （他動詞）物体同士が意図せずまたは不本意に接触する、または交差すること。

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Please don't touch the painting; it's very fragile.

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その絵に触らないでください。とても壊れやすいです。

Sense（1）

I touched his face softly.

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground.

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Sense（3）

(intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.

They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching.

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Sense（4）

(intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.

Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch?

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Sense（5）

(transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.

If you touch her, I'll kill you.

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Sense（6）

(transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.

Sense（7）

(transitive or reflexive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.

Her parents had caught her touching herself when she was fifteen.

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Sense（8）

(transitive) To cause to be briefly in contact with something.

He quickly touched his knee to the worn marble.

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Sense（9）

(transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.

Frankly, this wood's so strong that sandpaper won't touch it.

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Sense（10）

(transitive) To consume, or otherwise use.

Are you all right? You've hardly touched your lunch.

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Sense（11）

(intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).

Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander — from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain — this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.

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Sense（13）

(intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon gold, that will not touch upon silver.

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Sense（14）

(nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Sense（15）

(intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Sense（16）

(nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.

to touch the wind

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Sense（17）

(transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.

My grandfather, as many people know, was touched with greatness.

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Sense（18）

(transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.

, I.2.4.vii:

Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched, […] there is a superstitious fear […] which much trouble many of us.

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Sense（19）

(intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).

"Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope," continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to understand."

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Sense（20）

(transitive) To concern, to have to do with.

Men of Israhell take hede to youreselves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.

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Sense（21）

(transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent

to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near

nobody.

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Sense（22）

(transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.

He had been drinking over lunch, and was clearly touched.

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Sense（23）

(transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.

The bill was finally touched after many hours of deliberation.

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Sense（24）

(transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).

I was running short, so I touched old Bertie for a fiver.

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Sense（25）

(transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".

You must be touched if you think I'm taking your advice.

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Sense（26）

(transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.

There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen [as I do] you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty.

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Sense（27）

(transitive) To come close to; to approach.

Sense（28）

(transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.

Sense（29）

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

I mean to touch your love indeed.

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Sense（30）

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.

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Sense（31）

(obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.

Hee was touched with great Remorse

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Sense（32）

To strike; to manipulate; to play on.

to touch an instrument of music

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Sense（33）

To perform, as a tune; to play.

A person in the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.

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Sense（34）

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

No decree of mine,[…][to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will.

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touches

（ present singular third-person ）

touching

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touched

（ participle past ）

touched

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