touch

CEFRA1

/tʌt͡ʃ/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To put your hand or another body part against something.

  2. 02

    verb

    To affect someone's feelings in a strong or emotional way.

Examples

  • They embraced and promised to keep in touch.

  • You can get in touch with him at his home tonight.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. Primarily physical senses.

  2. To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. The sense that lets you feel things with your skin.

More examples

In context

  • You have only to touch the button.

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

  • They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching.

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English touchen, tochen, from Old French tochier (“to touch”) (whence Modern French toucher; compare French doublet toquer (“to offend, bother, harass”)), from Vulgar Latin *tuccō (“to knock, strike, offend”), from Frankish *tukkōn (“to knock, strike, touch”), from Proto-Germanic *tukkōną (“to tug, grab, grasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull, lead”). Largely displaced native Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan (whence Modern English rine). Doublet of tuck. Cognates Cognate with Old High German zochhōn, zuhhōn (“to grasp, take, seize, snatch”) (whence German zucken (“to jerk, flinch”)), German Low German tucken, tocken (“to fidget, twitch, pull up, en...