Usually means: Sensation perceived through skin contact.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. touch, touch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. touch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. touch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. touch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Touch, touch: Wordnik
  7. touch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. touch: Wiktionary
  9. touch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. touch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. touch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. touch: Dictionary.com
  13. touch, touch (n.), touch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. touch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Touch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. touch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. touch: Rhymezone
  19. touch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. touch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Touch: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Touch, Touch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. touch: Free Dictionary
  24. touch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Touch, touch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. touch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. touch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. Touch, touch, touch: Wordnik
  29. touch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  30. touch: Infoplease Dictionary
  31. touch(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch: Finance-Glossary.com
  2. touch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Touch: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Touch (sense), touch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TOUCH: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. touch: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch, touch, touch, touch, touch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Touch (toit), Touch, the touch: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. touch: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Touch: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See touchable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  Primarily physical senses.
verb:  (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
verb:  (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
verb:  (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
verb:  (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
verb:  (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
verb:  (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
verb:  (transitive or reflexive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
verb:  (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
verb:  (transitive) To consume, or otherwise use.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
verb:  (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
verb:  (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
verb:  (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
verb:  Primarily non-physical senses.
verb:  (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.
verb:  (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
verb:  (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
verb:  (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.
verb:  (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
verb:  (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
verb:  (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
verb:  (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
verb:  To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
verb:  To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
verb:  (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
verb:  To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
verb:  To perform, as a tune; to play.
verb:  To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
noun:  An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
noun:  The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
noun:  The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
noun:  (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
noun:  A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
noun:  A little bit; a small amount.
noun:  The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
noun:  A relationship of close communication or understanding.
noun:  The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
noun:  (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
noun:  (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
noun:  (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
noun:  A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
noun:  (obsolete) A brief essay.
noun:  (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
noun:  (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
noun:  (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.
noun:  The children's game of tag.
noun:  (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
noun:  (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something; a request for money.
noun:  (slang) The extent to which a person is interested or affected; the amount of outlay on something.
noun:  (UK, plumbing, dated) Tallow.
noun:  Form; standard of performance.
noun:  (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
noun:  (chiefly Australia) touch football (a variant of rugby league that does not involve tackling)

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