touch+upon

  • 21touch on — or[touch upon] {v.} To speak of or write of briefly. * /The speaker touched on several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic./ Contrast: DWELL ON …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 22touch on — or[touch upon] {v.} To speak of or write of briefly. * /The speaker touched on several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic./ Contrast: DWELL ON …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 23touch on — (also touch upon) Mention or treat of (slightly), glance at, speak of in passing, allude to …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 24touch — [tuch] vt. [ME touchen < OFr tochier (Fr toucher) < VL * toccare < * tok, light blow, of echoic orig.] 1. to put the hand, the finger, or some other part of the body on, so as to feel; perceive by the sense of feeling 2. to bring into… …

    English World dictionary

  • 25touch# — touch vb 1 Touch, feel, palpate, handle, paw can all mean to lay the hand or fingers or an equally sensitive part of the body upon so as to get or produce a sensation often in examination or exploration. Touch usually stresses the act which leads …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 26Touch the Clouds — Minneconjou headman By James H. Hamilton, taken at the Spotted Tail Agency, Nebraska, in the fall of 1877 Born c. 1838 …

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  • 27touch — [n1] physical contact blow, brush, caress, collision, communication, contact, contingence, crash, cuddling, embrace, feel, feeling, fondling, graze, grope, handling, hit, hug, impact, junction, kiss, lick, manipulation, nudge, palpation, pat,… …

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  • 28Touch — Touch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Touched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Touching}.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 29Touch Detective — Cover art Developer(s) BeeWorks Publisher(s) …

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  • 30Touch typing — is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location through muscle memory. Touch typing usuallyWW places the eight fingers in a horizontal row along the middle of the keyboard (the… …

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