(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.
Vouch
Definition:
(v. t.) To call; to summon.
(v. t.) To call upon to witness; to obtest.
(v. t.) To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
(v. t.) To back; to support; to confirm; to establish.
(v. t.) To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
(v. i.) To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
(v. i.) To assert; to aver; to declare.
(n.) Warrant; attestation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macfarlane said he did not leak the contents of last week’s cabinet meeting - but he appeared to vouch for the veracity of the reported divisions when he added: “There has certainly been some very accurate statements made in newspapers in relation to the discussions that were had in cabinet.” The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said the leak “absolutely did not come from me” and although it was not the first cabinet in Australian history to have had leaks “this was particularly disappointing because it went into such detail”.
(2) One rally in Chicago was cancelled after thousands of demonstrators surrounded the venue and the secret service could no longer vouch for the candidate’s safety.
(3) For the next two years, Khakrezwal said, he and other commanders would vouch for their men and send them to Ahmed Wali, who would supply them to the Kandahar Strike Force, a paramilitary unit working in tandem with the CIA.
(4) I can vouch for the importance of that since I still have my own dog-eared copy of the original paperback edition of Look Back in Anger.
(5) If they can’t, they’ll continue to grow in capacity.” For years, US military leaders publicly vouched for the performance and integrity of the Iraqi security forces they nurtured, trained and equipped.
(6) Later that year, Congress passed the Protected National Security Documents Act, to suppress any Bush-era photographs of detainees in military custody unless the defense secretary could vouch that their release would have minimal consequences for US troops.
(7) "I can't vouch for how much so, but as I never met Larry I only know Lana, who is, to me, very much a woman."
(8) Talese does note in the book that “I cannot vouch for every detail that he recounts in his manuscript”.
(9) To his credit, Talese described Foos as an “inaccurate and unreliable narrator” and admitted: “I cannot vouch for every detail that he recounts in his manuscript.” But this was all the more reason to pin Foos down on his deceptions.
(10) "I can certainly vouch for the accuracy of the material in the departmental video; I can't say the same for Mr Albanese's presentation," Mrdak told the rural and regional affairs and transport committee.
(11) "[Peppiatt] refers to a Kelly Brook story – in fact he approached and offered the newspaper that story, vouched for its accuracy, and then asked for and received an extra freelance fee for doing so," the statement said.
(12) Without anyone to vouch for her, she went to 10 different schools where she was told her she could not be enrolled without a guardian’s consent, before the 11th agreed.
(13) Trump dossier: intelligence sources vouch for credibility of report's author Read more What is the origin of the Russian dossier?
(14) Wolf answers: "Like many charities, we have donors who wish to remain anonymous", but she is happy to vouch that the organisation has never received cash from "profit-making schools companies".
(15) I can only vouch for the R&R to be found in its calm, otherworldly landscape.
(16) His sister and her boyfriend vouched for his alibi.
(17) It claims to offer 99 Oregon beers on tap and, though I can’t personally vouch for all, the Ancestry Golden was light, the Yachats was smooth, the Block 15 was malty and the Oakshire Overcast Espresso Stout was a creamy, energising shot of success.
(18) It is in the club’s culture.” Jesse Lingard can vouch for that.
(19) I cannot vouch or ‘shill’ enough when it comes to the true freedom of expression Reddit offers.” But there’s a chance that the admin team may, in the words of Strudelle, another SRS moderator, “show some leadership” – especially since Reddit, unlike many hot tech firms, is not fully independent.
(20) And the answer to that lies in the credibility of its apparent author, the ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele , the quality of the sources he has, and the quality of the people who were prepared to vouch for him.