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单词 to touch in
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to touch in
to touch in
1. transitive. To draw or paint (a detail, feature, etc.), esp. carefully, lightly, or with small or delicate strokes. Cf. sense 7a.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [verb (transitive)] > modify or insert detail
touch1523
to touch in?1770
to pick in1836
?1770 C. Bowles Artists Assistant in Drawing viii. 46 In colouring Trees, Boughs, and Branches, touch in all the dark Shades first.
1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Oct. 615 The dry leaves in the hedges..may be touched in with burnt sienna.
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 262 Touching in as small a portion of top edge as possible.
1958 Listener 14 Aug. 251/2 If the patches are touched in with primer and undercoat you will not run into any trouble.
2009 Master Drawings 47 161/2 The sheets in Berlin are touched in with the red wash that Gillot so often used.
2. intransitive. To place a smart travel card against an electronic reader at the start of a journey, esp. on public transport. Cf. to touch out 2 at Phrasal verbs.
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2007 Independent 11 Apr. (Extra section) 10/2 Balances and ticket data are held electronically on the card, and users ‘touch in’ and ‘touch out’ on card readers to pay for their journeys.
2012 Queensland Times (Nexis) 3 Jan. 1 Commuters may well check their Go Card balance twice as they touch in on their way to work this morning.
2015 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 30 June 19 Passengers can touch in and out using their travel cards on special readers at the start and end of their tram journeys, instead of carrying cash or buying tickets on the go.
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