What's the difference between ouch and touch?

Ouch


Definition:

  • (n.) A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The next day she came online to write the word "ouch" underneath a picture of a leg injury I had posted deliberately to make her say something girlfriendy.
  • (2) Amidases (acylamide amidohydrolase EC 3.5.1.4) from mutant strains (i.e., B6, AI3, AIU1N, OUCH 4 and L10) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were purified in one-step by ligand affinity chromatography using Epoxy-activated Sepharose 4B-acetamide.
  • (3) A case of Itai-itai (ouch-ouch) disease with reduced urinary kallikrein excretion and slightly enhanced renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is described.
  • (4) So perhaps it's all the snow's fault... Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) Ouch.
  • (5) Association of resistance to hydroxyurea inhibition with a mutation in the amidase structural gene of strain OUCH 4 was confirmed by transduction.
  • (6) Two down for Carlos Gomez, who is hit in the hand, ouch.
  • (7) ‘It’s heartbreaking to see their little faces with no hope,’ said Jose, aged six.” Ouch.
  • (8) The secretary of state in Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry, Ouch Borith, told the ABC a government working group had completed studying a draft resettlement proposal from the Australian government and was hoping to sign a deal “as soon as possible”.
  • (9) Adam Smith: Ouch, you're twisting my arm … Junt: I would like to draw a line under this sorry tale of confusion by announcing that my dear, dear friend Adam sadly and unexpectedly defenestrated himself an hour a go.
  • (10) Jones gets completely anihilated by Walker on the kickoff, ouch!
  • (11) Altered amidases from mutant strains AIU 1N and OUCH 4, selected for their resistance to inhibition of growth by urea and hydroxyurea respectively, had altered kinetic constants for inhibition indicating reduced binding capacity for the inhibitors.
  • (12) In 2003, the term was voted third most offensive that could be used relating to disability in a poll run for the BBC's Ouch!
  • (13) 1.45am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, top of 1st Ouch!
  • (14) Asa Bennett of Huffington Post tweets the details, including veteran Labour MP Austin Mitchell apparently comparing Wheatley to Admiral Horatio Nelson ( of "I see no ships" fame ) Asa Bennett (@asabenn) Ouch.
  • (15) It would be an historic mistake if on these issues Britain were to continue to alienate its natural allies in central and eastern Europe ,” he said in a speech at Chatham House on Monday, “when you were one of the strongest advocates for their accession.” Ouch.
  • (16) The Sunday Herald's Iain Macwhirter even dismissed me as " the BBC Question Time's favourite tame lefty " (ouch).
  • (17) There was the first-choice left-back Jetro Willems going and getting himself ruled out of the tournament with ligament-ouch suffered in PSV's Eredivisie match against Feyenoord last weekend.
  • (18) By way of contrast Brown had positioned himself on the “compromise everything left” and “looks set to be a weak if extended interlude between you and Cameron.” Ouch.
  • (19) Worries about China, the endless drop in oil prices and even new geopolitical tensions pounded the markets, punishing risk assets with a flight to quality that was in full swing,” they wrote in a research note entitled “What’s the Chinese for ‘ouch’?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest China shares slipped again this week despite Beijing’s previous attempts to calm markets.
  • (20) Sixty-two autopsy cases with "itai-itai" or "ouch-ouch" (in English) disease and 50 control subjects were examined by static quantitative bone histopathology.

Touch


Definition:

  • (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. t.) To perceive by the sense of feeling.
  • (v. t.) To come to; to reach; to attain to.
  • (v. t.) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • (v. t.) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
  • (v. t.) To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
  • (v. t.) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
  • (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
  • (v. t.) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • (v. t.) To infect; to affect slightly.
  • (v. t.) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
  • (v. t.) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
  • (v. t.) To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • (v. t.) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • (v. t.) To harm, afflict, or distress.
  • (v. t.) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
  • (v. t.) To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
  • (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
  • (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. i.) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
  • (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
  • (v.) The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
  • (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.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • (v.) An emotion or affection.
  • (v.) Personal reference or application.
  • (v.) A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
  • (v.) A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • (v.) Feature; lineament; trait.
  • (v.) The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
  • (v.) A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
  • (v.) A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
  • (v.) A slight and brief essay.
  • (v.) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • (v.) Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
  • (n.) A boys' game; tag.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (2) He was very touched that President Nicolas Sarkozy came out to the airport to meet us, even after Madiba retired.
  • (3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (4) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (5) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (6) In 120 consecutive patients who had colonic roentgenologic examination and no depressive sign, two had coccygeal and muscular pain at rectal touch.
  • (7) The Tories were seen as out of touch and for the few.
  • (8) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
  • (9) A growing educated middle class is losing touch with apartheid history and seeking alternatives.
  • (10) Single cells in pairs or clusters of touching cells in each exposure group were examined with FRAP.
  • (11) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
  • (12) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
  • (13) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
  • (14) 1-1 2.15am GMT 48 mins Giles Barnes is down again, turning his ankle under a challenge (but not actually touched by the tackle).
  • (15) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
  • (16) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
  • (17) We analyzed the trophoblast subpopulations which appear on touch smears of chorionic villi morphologically and immunohistochemically, using the uterine contents of 37 cases of induced abortion.
  • (18) Bill Clinton (@billclinton) Just touched down in Africa with @ChelseaClinton .
  • (19) Right now I think the discussion is not honest and practical, it is hysterical and political.” In contrast to the IOC, which did not contact McLaren, he said the International Paralympic Committee had been in close touch as it decides on whether to ban the Russian team.
  • (20) Rat pups from 12 litters were handled daily, once every three days, or never touched between postnatal Days 5 and 20.