Hit vs Touch - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between hit and touch

is that hit is to affect negatively while touch is to be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.

In intransitive terms the difference between hit and touch

is that hit is to meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck while touch is to deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).

As verbs the difference between hit and touch

is that hit is To strike.touch is primarily physical senses.

As nouns the difference between hit and touch

is that hit is a blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything while touch is an act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

As a pronoun hit

is it.

hit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

To strike.

#(lb) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

#*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

#*1922-1927 , (Frank Harris), (My Life and Loves)

#*:He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.

#*:BELLO: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)

#*:BLOOM: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell

#*1934 , , The Slugger's Game

#*:I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.

#(lb) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

#*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

#*:If bodies be extension alone, how can they move and hit one against another?

#*:a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.

#*1882 , (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance

#*:Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.

# To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

# To attack, especially amphibiously.

To briefly visit.

To encounter.

(lb) To attain, to achieve.

# To reach or achieve.

#*2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:

#*:And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.

#(lb) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

#*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

#*:Millions miss for one that hits .

#To guess; to light upon or discover.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:Thou hast hit it.

(lb) To affect negatively.

To make a play.

# In blackjack, to deal a card to.

# To come up to bat.

#(lb) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

To use; to connect to.

To have sex with.

To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana

Antonyms

* (manage to touch in the right place) miss

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the verb "hit") * don't let the door hit you on the way out * flood-hit (adjective ) * hit a home run * hit a nerve * hit a six * hit a snag * hit above one's weight * hit and run * hit at * hit back * hit below one's weight * hit for six * hit home * hit it an quit it * hit it big * hit it off * hitman * hit on * hit one out of the ballpark * hit one's stride * hit out * hit paydirt * hit the ball twice * hit the books * hit the bottle * hit the bricks * hit the ceiling * hit the deck * hit the dirt * hit the gas * hit the ground running * hit the hay * hit the head * hit the headlines * hit the jackpot * hit the nail on the head * hit the net * hit the pan * hit the pavement * hit the road * hit rock bottom * hit the rock * hit the rocks * hit the roof * hit the sack * hit the silk * hit the skids * hit the spot * hit up * hit upon * hit wicket * hittable * hitter * hitting * not know what hit one * pinch-hit

Noun

(en noun)

A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

* Dryden

So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, / And, at each hit , with wonder seems amazed.

The hit was very slight.

A success, especially in the entertainment industry.

The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

* Alexander Pope

What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit .

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=February 9 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Review: Chico & Rita citation , page= , passage=Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met. }}

An attack on a location, person or people.

# In the game of , a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.

(computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

An approximately correct answer in a test set.

(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.

(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

Where am I going to get my next hit ?

A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

a happy hit

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Antonyms

* (a punch) miss * (success) flop, turkey

Derived terms

* banjo hit * base hit * cult hit * direct hit * hit counter * hit list * hit parade * hit point * hit squad * hit test * infield hit * king hit * nervous hit * no hit * one-hit wonder * pinch hit * smash hit * straight hit * take a hit

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . More at (l). Note 'it.

Pronoun

(dialectal) .

* 1922 , Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:

But how hit was to come about didn't appear.

* 1998 , Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:

Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit' slide down the hill ' hits own way.

Derived terms

* (l) * (l)

Anagrams

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touch

English

Verb

(es)

Primarily physical senses.

# (label) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.

# (label) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

# (label) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.

# (label) To make physical contact with a thing.

# (label) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.

#* (Bible), (w) xxvi. 28, 29

Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.

# (label) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.

# (label) To consume, or otherwise use.

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# (label) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).

#* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :

Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander — from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain — this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.

#* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society (2012), page 189:

But in fact the English kings of the seventeenth century usually began to touch form the day of their accession, without waiting for any such consecration.

# To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch' upon gold, that will not ' touch upon silver.

# (label) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

# To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

# (label) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.

Primarily non-physical senses.

# (label) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.

#*, I.2.4.vii:

Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched ,which much trouble many of us.

# (label) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on'' or ''upon something).

#* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)

"Well, but since we have touched upon this business, and for the last time I hope," continued the doctor, "there is one point I should like you to understand."

# (label) To concern, to have to do with.

#* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) V:

Men of Israhell take hede to youreselves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

#* 1919 , (Saki), ‘The Penance’, The Toys of Peace , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 423:

And now it seemed he was engaged in something which touched them closely, but must be hidden from their knowledge.

# (label) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.

# (label) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).

# (label) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.

#* 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,

There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen [as I do] you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty.

#* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.

# To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I mean to touch your love indeed.

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.

(label) To infect; to affect slightly.

(Francis Bacon)

To strike; to manipulate; to play on.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

[They] touched their golden harps.

To perform, as a tune; to play.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

A person in the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

No decree of mine,[to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will.

Derived terms

* touch a nerve * touch base * touch bottom * touch down * touch off * touch on * touch the hem of someone's garment * touch up * touch wood

Noun

(es)

An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.

The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.

With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.

The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.

He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch .

A distinguishing feature or characteristic.

Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.

A little bit; a small amount.

Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.

* Shakespeare

Madam, I have a touch of your condition.

The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.

He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch .

A relationship of close communication or understanding.

He promised to keep in touch while he was away.

The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.

I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch .

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Rovers' hopes of pulling off one of the great European shocks of all time lasted just 10 minutes before Spurs finally found their scoring touch .}}

Act or power of exciting emotion.

* Shakespeare

Not alone / The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches , / Do strongly speak to us.

An emotion or affection.

* Hooker

a true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy

Personal reference or application.

* Francis Bacon

Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used.

A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

* Dryden

Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design.

A brief essay.

* Jonathan Swift

Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch .

A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

* Shakespeare

Now do I play the touch .

* Fuller

a neat new monument of touch and alabaster

Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

* Carew

equity, the true touch of all laws

* Shakespeare

friends of noble touch

The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.

a heavy touch''', or a light '''touch

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.

The children's game of tag.

Derived terms

* common touch * in touch * light touch * lose one's touch * lose touch * out of touch * soft touch * touch football * touch-kick * touchless * touch oneself * touch-paper * touch piece * touch-type

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