| 单词 | touch |
| 释义 | touch (once / 33 pages) 1vn 2vn 3v 4n To touch is to come in contact with something, especially using your fingers. When your friend dares you to touch her pet spider, you'll find out what's stronger — your fear of spiders or your fear of looking like a wimp. The verb touch also means to emotionally affect. At your grandparents' fiftieth anniversary party, it might touch you to see how much they clearly still love each other. The noun touch can mean a hint of something, or just a small amount. You might have a touch of a cold, but it isn't enough to keep you home in bed. WORD FAMILYtouch: retouch, touchable, touched, toucher, touches, touching+/retouch: retouched, retouches, retouching/touchable: untouchable/touched: untouched/toucher: touchers/touching: touchingly, touchings/untouchable: untouchables, untouchably USAGE EXAMPLESBut the blast touched off a massive fireball and caused extensive damage, including the loss of a commercial satellite. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Television news footage shows the plane intact on a runway with its front end touching the tarmac. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) I hardly touched it, believing it to be tainted, stained. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v make physical contact with, come in contact with Touch the stone for good luck She never touched her husband Hypo engage get caught toetouch with the toe pick uptake up by hand hit, strikeproduce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically finger, thumbfeel or handle with the fingers feel, palpateexamine (a body part) by palpation handle, palmtouch, lift, or hold with the hands stroketouch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions collide with, hit, impinge on, run into, strikehit against; come into sudden contact with brushtouch lightly and briefly skim, skim overmove or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of hitdeal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument strikedeliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon buss, kiss, osculate, snogtouch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. kisstouch lightly or gently mouthtouch with the mouth pressexert pressure or force to or upon tagtouch a player while he is holding the ball stubstrike (one's toe) accidentally against an object lockbecome rigid or immoveable fieldcatch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket fumblehandle clumsily manipulatehold something in one's hands and move it caress, fondletouch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner jabstrike or punch with quick and short blows dab, pathit lightly bunt, buttto strike, thrust or shove against pinghit with a pinging noise bang, spangleap, jerk, bang rear-endcollide with the rear end of broadsidecollide with the broad side of clapstrike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting connectland on or hit solidly spatstrike with a sound like that of falling rain thudstrike with a dull sound bottomstrike the ground, as with a ship's bottom bottom outhit the ground knock, strike harddeliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room" bump, knockknock against with force or violence cut down, down, knock down, pull down, push downcause to come or go down bump into, butt against, jar against, knock against, run intocollide violently with an obstacle crease, graze, rakescrape gently spurstrike with a spur flicktouch or hit with a light, quick blow bang, slamstrike violently lace into, lam into, lay into, pitch into, tear intohit violently, as in an attack beak, peck, pickhit lightly with a picking motion tap, tipstrike lightly hewstrike with an axe; cut down, strike sideswipestrike from the side kickstrike with the foot swipestrike with a swiping motion smiteinflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon hookhit with a hook swathit swiftly with a violent blow bash, bonk, bop, sock, whap, whophit hard lash, whipstrike as if by whipping beathit repeatedly beatstrike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music beanhit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball pophit or strike catch, getreach with a blow or hit in a particular spot conkhit, especially on the head coshhit with a cosh, usually on the head brainhit on the head blast, boom, nail, smashhit hard crackhit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise sandbag, stunhit something or somebody as if with a sandbag sclaffstrike (the ground) in making a sclaff manhandlehandle roughly cloutstrike hard, especially with the fist batstrike with, or as if with a baseball bat batuse a bat bathave a turn at bat cuthit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction knap, rapstrike sharply poke, pound, thumphit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument smack, thwackdeliver a hard blow to beltdeliver a blow to plug, punchdeliver a quick blow to chopstrike sharply, as in some sports slog, slug, swigstrike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat wallop, whack, wham, whophit hard biff, pommel, pummelstrike, usually with the fist slaphit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand sclaffstrike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first buff, buffetstrike, beat repeatedly batter, buffet, knock aboutstrike against forcefully boxhit with the fist bludgeon, clubstrike with a club or a bludgeon cudgel, fustigatestrike with a cudgel peck, smackkiss lightly lap, lickpass the tongue over squeezepress firmly clash, collidecrash together with violent impact crush, mash, squash, squeeze, squelchto compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition cranch, craunch, crunch, grindpress or grind with a crushing noise bear down, bear down on, drag down, press down on, weigh downexert a force with a heavy weight nabtag the base runner to get him out knucklepress or rub with the knuckles pushpress against forcefully without moving glancehit at an angle 2v perceive via the tactile sense Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her Hyper comprehend, perceive to become aware of through the senses 3v cause to be in brief contact with He touched his toes to the horse's flanks 4v be in direct physical contact with; make contact The two buildings touch Their hands touched Syn|Hypo adjoin, contact, meet converge, meet be adjacent or come together cover, spread over form a cover over adhere, cleave, cling, cohere, stickcome or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation chafe, fray, fret, rub, scratchcause friction attachbe attached; be in contact with hugfit closely or tightly abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, marchlie adjacent to another or share a boundary border, environ, ring, skirt, surroundextend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle lean against, lean on, rest onrest on for support floodcover with liquid, usually water bloodycover with blood mist, mist overbecome covered with mist glaciatecover with ice or snow or a glacier strewcover; be dispersed over grass, grass overcover with grass moldfit tightly, follow the contours of conglutinatestick together agglutinateclump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. cake, coatform a coat over drown, overwhelm, submergecover completely or make imperceptible leech ontoadmire boundlessly and follow around fringedecorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe gird, girdleput a girdle on or around cloistersurround with a cloister close in, enclose, inclose, shut insurround completely mantlecover like a mantle hem insurround in a restrictive manner cloak, clothe, drape, robecover as if with clothing neighbor, neighbourbe located near or adjacent to cloistersurround with a cloister, as of a garden blanketform a blanket-like cover (over) carpetform a carpet-like cover (over) smotherform an impenetrable cover over shroudform a cover like a shroud 5v to extend as far as Syn|Hypo|Hyper extend to, reach reach into run into or up to be occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere 6v be equal to in quality or ability Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues Syn|Hyper equal, match, rival equal, equalise, equalize, equate, match make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching compete, contend, vie compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others 7v tamper with Don't touch my CDs! Syn|Hypo|Hyper disturb upset disturb the balance or stability of violatedestroy alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 8v consume She didn't touch her food all night Syn|Hypo|Hyper partake receive partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly 9n the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us Syn|Hyper cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality exteroception sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body somatosenseany of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain 10n the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin she likes the touch of silk on her skin Syn|Hypo|Hyper feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation creepiness an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensationa sensation localized on the skin ticklea cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking itch, itchiness, itchingan irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch topognosia, topognosisrecognition of the location of a stimulus on the skin urticationa sensation of having been stung by nettles perception the process of perceiving 11n the event of something coming in contact with the body he longed for the touch of her hand the cooling touch of the night air Syn|Hypo|Hyper touching brush, light touch momentary contact strokea light touch contact, impinging, striking the physical coming together of two or more things 12n the act of putting two things together with no space between them at his touch the room filled with lights Syn|Hypo|Hyper touching contact, physical contact the act of touching physically dab, pat, tapa light touch or stroke hit, hitting, strikingthe act of contacting one thing with another dig, jabthe act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow kissa light glancing touch buss, kiss, osculationthe act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) catch, grab, snap, snatchthe act of catching an object with the hands handling, manipulationthe action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means fingeringtouching something with the fingers gropethe act of groping; and instance of groping palpation, tactual explorationa method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) tickle, tickling, titillationthe act of tickling stroke, strokinga light touch with the hands tag(sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game) lap, licktouching with the tongue grazing, shaving, skimmingthe act of brushing against while passing rub, wipethe act of rubbing or wiping contusionthe action of bruising crash, smashthe act of colliding with something fielding(baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field fair ball(baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field snicka glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat bunt(baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat fly, fly ball(baseball) a hit that flies up in the air ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground header(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head scorcher, screamera very hard hit ball plunk, plunker(baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly laying onthe act of contacting something with your hand smack, smoochan enthusiastic kiss French kiss, deep kiss, soul kissan openmouthed kiss in which your tongue is inserted into the other's mouth fair catch(American football) a catch of a punt on the fly by a defensive player who has signalled that he will not run and so should not be tackled interception(American football) the act of catching a football by a player on the opposing team reception(American football) the act of catching a pass in football reboundthe act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot shoestring catch(baseball) a running catch made near the ground interlock, interlocking, mesh, meshingthe act of interlocking or meshing ballottementa palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) caressa gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it) act, deed, human action, human activity something that people do or cause to happen 13n the feel of mechanical action this piano has a wonderful touch Hyper feel, tactile property a property perceived by touch 14n a communicative interaction 2he got in touch with his colleagues Syn|Hyper contact communicating, communication the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information 1v affect emotionally I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy Syn|Hypo|Hyper stir get evoke an emotional response affect, impress, move, strike have an emotional or cognitive impact upon 2v have an effect upon Syn|Hypo|Hyper affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on strike a blow affect adversely repercusscause repercussions; have an unwanted effect tell onproduce an effect or strain on somebody redoundhave an effect for good or ill excite, stimulateact as a stimulant process, treatsubject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition hydrolise, hydrolizemake a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis color, colour, distort, tingeaffect as in thought or feeling endanger, expose, peril, queer, scupperput in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position hit, strikeaffect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely subjectcause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, troubleto cause inconvenience or discomfort to act upon, influence, workhave and exert influence or effect slam-dunkmake a forceful move against propagatecause to propagate, as by grafting or layering bacterise, bacterizesubject to the action of bacteria iodise, iodizetreat with iodine nitratetreat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate tanktreat in a tank aerate, oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenizeimpregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen mercerise, mercerizetreat to strengthen and improve the luster malttreat with malt or malt extract fluoridate, fluoridise, fluoridizesubject to fluoridation; treat with fluoride creosotetreat with creosote chlorinatetreat or combine with chlorine carbonatetreat with carbon dioxide camphoratetreat with camphor bromate, brominatetreat with bromine ammoniatetreat with ammonia irradiate, rayexpose to radiation scaldtreat with boiling water invigorate, quickengive life or energy to refinetreat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition innervatestimulate to action irritateexcite to some characteristic action or condition, such as motion, contraction, or nervous impulse, by the application of a stimulus nitrify, nitrogenise, nitrogenizetreat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound reverberatetreat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace currytreat by incorporating fat seedsprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain dosetreat with an agent; add (an agent) to sulfur, sulphurtreat with sulphur in order to preserve vulcanise, vulcanizesubject to vulcanization chrometreat with a chromium compound bituminise, bituminizetreat with bitumen Agenise, Agenizeage or bleach flour with Agene (nitrogen trichloride) runcause to perform carboxylatetreat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid saccharifyconvert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate beneficiateprocess (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction prejudice, prepossessinfluence (somebody's) opinion in advance compromiseexpose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute digestconvert food into absorbable substances vitriolexpose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol putcause (someone) to undergo something shipwreckcause to experience shipwreck refractsubject to refraction exposeexpose or make accessible to some action or influence exposeexpose to light, of photographic film fume, fumigatetreat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests air-conditioncontrol the humidity and temperature of form, imprintestablish or impress firmly in the mind militatehave force or influence; bring about an effect or change manipulate, pull strings, pull wiresinfluence or control shrewdly or deviously color, colourmodify or bias swing, swing overinfluence decisively blackjack, blackmail, pressureexert pressure on someone through threats carry, persuade, swaywin approval or support for get atinfluence by corruption fixinfluence an event or its outcome by illegal means distress, straitenbring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship dominatebe in control incurmake oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v color lightly Syn|Hypo|Hyper tinct, tinge, tint henna apply henna to one's hair tincturestain or tint with a color complexiongive a certain color to color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize add color to 4n a slight but appreciable amount this dish could use a touch of garlic Syn|Hypo|Hyper hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge snuff a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude 5n a suggestion of some quality there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone Syn|Hyper ghost, trace proffer, proposition, suggestion a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection 6n a slight attack of illness he has a touch of rheumatism Syn|Hyper spot attack a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition 7n a distinguishing style this room needs a woman's touch Syn|Hypo|Hyper signature common touch the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them) fashion, manner, mode, style, way how something is done or how it happens 8n deftness in handling matters 3he has a master's touch Hypo|Hyper capstone, copestone, finishing touch a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness skillful performance or ability without difficulty 1v be relevant to Syn|Hypo bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on advert, allude make a more or less disguised reference to center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around center upon apply, go for, holdbe pertinent or relevant or applicable affect, involve, regardconnect closely and often incriminatingly interest, matter tobe of importance or consequence implicatebring into intimate and incriminating connection fascinate, intriguecause to be interested or curious 2v deal with; usually used with a form of negation I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole The local Mafia won't touch gambling Hyper care, deal, handle, manage be in charge of, act on, or dispose of 3v make a more or less disguised reference to Syn|Hyper advert, allude bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on be relevant to hint, suggest drop a hint; intimate by a hint 4v comprehend 4He could not touch the meaning of the poem Hyper understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of n the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan) he watched the beggar trying to make a touch Hyper solicitation an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status |
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