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touch | cross |

As a verb touch

is primarily physical senses.

As a noun touch

is an act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

As a proper noun cross is

for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.

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.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=But Richmond
  • # (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

    Statistics

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    cross

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
  • Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
  • (heraldiccharge) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
  • A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
  • Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross .
  • (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
  • A hand gesture made by Catholics in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
  • She made the cross after swearing.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray.
  • * Cowper
  • 'Tis where the cross is preached.
  • (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
  • She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
  • (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross ) A difficult situation that must be endured.
  • It's a cross I must bear.
  • * Ben Jonson
  • Heaven prepares a good man with crosses .
  • The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
  • A quick cross of the road.
  • (biology) An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
  • (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
  • * Lord Dufferin
  • Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
  • (boxing) A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
  • (football) A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside. }}
  • A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross ).
  • A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross )
  • (obsolete) A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
  • (obsolete, Ireland) Church lands.
  • A line drawn across or through another line.
  • (surveying) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
  • A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
  • (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
  • Synonyms

    * (production of cross-breeding or -fertilization) hybrid * (cross on which Christ was crucified) True Cross

    Derived terms

    * Celtic cross * crossroads * cross-stitch * double cross * fiery cross * Latin cross * left cross * Maltese cross * Saint Andrew's cross * * True Cross * right cross

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Transverse; lying across the main direction.
  • At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
  • * Isaac Newton
  • the cross refraction of the second prism
  • (archaic) Opposite, opposed to.
  • His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
  • Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
  • As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • a cross fortune
  • * Glanvill
  • the cross and unlucky issue of my design
  • * South
  • The article of the resurrection seems to lie marvellously cross to the common experience of mankind.
  • * Dryden
  • We are both love's captives, but with fates so cross , / One must be happy by the other's loss.
  • Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
  • She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
    Please don't get cross''' at me.'' (or) ''Please don't get '''cross with me.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • He had received a cross answer from his mistress.
  • Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
  • cross interrogatories
    cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other

    Synonyms

    * (opposite to) contrarily, opposed, reverse, antipodal * (mildly angry) angry, annoyed, irritated

    Derived terms

    * cross cut * cross-examine * crossly * cross-multiplication * crosspatch * cross purposes * cross-section * cross-wise

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (archaic) across
  • She walked cross the mountains.
  • * L'Estrange
  • A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
  • cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.
  • The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make or form a .
  • # To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
  • # To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
  • # To mark with an X.
  • # To write lines at right angles.(w)
  • #*
  • #*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
  • # To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
  • To move relatively.
  • # (label) To go from one side of (something) to the other.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
  • #* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= England 1-0 Ukraine , passage=Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry, only for the officials to remain unmoved.}}
  • # (label) To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
  • # (label) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
  • #* (James David Forbes) (1809-1868)
  • Your kind letter crossed mine.
  • # (label) Relative movement by a player or of players.
  • ## Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
  • ## (label) To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
  • #
  • ## (label) To score a try.
  • ##* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 12, author=Mark Orlovac, work=BBC
  • , title= England 59-13 Italy , passage=England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break. }}
  • (label) To oppose.
  • # (label) To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
  • # To interfere and cut off; to debar.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • to cross me from the golden time I look for
  • # (label) To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
  • (label) To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
  • To stamp or mark a cheque in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
  • Synonyms

    * (to cross-fertilize or crossbreed) cross-fertilize, crossbreed

    Derived terms

    * crossing * cross off * cross one's arms * cross one's fingers * cross one's heart * cross one's legs * cross out * cross over * crossover * cross paths * cross someone's palm * cross the aisle * crossword