touch
101touch 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 …
102touch on — phr verb Touch on is used with these nouns as the object: ↑issue, ↑subject …
103touch up — phr verb Touch up is used with these nouns as the object: ↑lipstick, ↑make up, ↑photograph …
104touch — [13] The etymological notion underlying touch seems to be the ‘striking of a bell’. It comes via Old French tochier from Vulgar Latin *toccāre ‘hit, knock’, which appears originally to have denoted ‘make the sound toc by striking something, such… …
105touch up — vb 1. British to caress sexually, grope. A phrase (often used derogatively) prevalent among adolescents. 2. to touch (someone) for (something) (in the sense of solicit a loan from) …
106touch on — approach; touch; remind …
107touch of — See a touch of …
108touch at — (of a ship) call briefly at (a port). → touch …
109touch on — (also touch upon) Mention or treat of (slightly), glance at, speak of in passing, allude to …
110touch — I. v. a. 1. Hit (lightly), strike against. 2. Perceive by the sense of feeling. 3. Meet, be contiguous to, abut on. 4. Graze, come in contact with (in passing over). 5. Reach, come to, arrive at, attain to. 6. Delineate ( …
