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What does touch mean?

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Verb
  1. Primarily physical senses.
    1. (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with. [from 14th c.]
    2. (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect. [from 14th c.]
    3. (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact. [from 14th c.]
    4. (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing. [from 14th c.]
    5. (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact. [from 14th c.]
    6. (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context. [from 15th c.]
    7. (transitive) To consume, or otherwise use. [from 15th c.]
    8. (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at). [from 16th c.]
    9. (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs. [from 17th c.]
    10. (intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
    11. (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
    12. (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
    13. (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
  2. Primarily non-physical senses.
    1. (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality. [from 14th c.]
    2. (transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to. [from 14th c.]
    3. (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something). [from 14th c.]
    4. (transitive) To concern, to have to do with. [14th-19th c.]
    5. (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in. [from 14th c.]
    6. (transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly. [from 16th c.]
    7. (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre. [from 17th c.]
    8. (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend). [from 18th c.]
    9. (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head". [from 18th c.]
    10. (transitive) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality. [from 19th c.]
    11. (computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
  3. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  4. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  5. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
  6. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
  7. To perform, as a tune; to play.
  8. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
Noun
  1. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
  2. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
  3. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
  4. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
  5. A little bit; a small amount.
  6. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
  7. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
  8. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
  9. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  10. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
  11. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
  12. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  13. (obsolete) A brief essay.
  14. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  15. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  16. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
  17. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, 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.
  18. The children's game of tag.
  19. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
  20. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
  21. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow
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