Touch
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- (COLLOQUIAL) Police can't touch him ប៉ះពាល់ដល់ (His lands) touch on (mine) ជាប់គ្នានឹង, (He didn't) touch on (that subject) ប៉ះពាល touch up កែ to hurt some-one's felling.
Example: Any reference to poverty touch him on the raw. សំដីណាដែលប៉ះពាល់ដល់សេចក្ដីក្រលំបាកគឺជាសំដីប៉ះពាល់ដល់គាត់ ។
noun
- 1.
- សេចក្តីពិសោធន៍តូច, លក្ខណៈ, ការប៉ិនប្រសប់ដ៏ពិសេស
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- (contact, sense of feeling, unique duality, tinge, mild attack, the faculty of perceiving things or their qualities through touching them, small things done in producing a piece of work, a performer's way of touching the keys or strings of a musical instrument, etc., a manner or style of workmanship, a person's special skill, a relationship of communication or knowledge, a slight trace, the act of obtaining money from a person. -touch down (of an airplane) to land. –touch off to cause to ignite or explode; touch on (upon) to mention a subject briefly) a gentle touch ការពាល់, ការស្ទាប
Example: The blind man touched the elephant's ears, Mother's housecoat touches the floor, Sophy put a touch of salt on his egg, touch glasses, touch the matter, an idea touched with irony.a touch of red ស្នាមប្រឿងៗ, a touch of salt ចំនួនបន្ដិចបន្ដួច, get in touch with ទាក់ទងនឹង, out of touch with គ្មានការទាក់ទងនឹង, lose one's touch អស់ថ្វីដៃ
verb — past tense: touched ; past participle: touched ; present participle: touching ;
- 1.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ប៉ះពាល់, ជ្រៀតជ្រែក, ធ្វើអោយរំជួលចិត្ត, ជាប់ទាក់ទងប្រជែង, ឡើងស្មើ, ឡើងដល់កម្រិត
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (to be in contact, to take effect on) ប៉ះគ្នា
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- (TRANSITIVE) (to put the hand, finger, etc., on so as to feel, to border on, to strike lightly, to be in contact, to cause to be in contact with, to eat; to compare with, to equal, to affect, to affect the feelings, to affect slightly to, harm a little) touch a sore ពាល់, ស្ទាប, feet don't touch the floor ប៉ះ, His troubles touch me ធ្វើអោយរំជួលចិត្ដ, can't touch the money ប៉ះ, យក
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
- 2.
- The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense.
- 3.
- An emotion or affection.
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- The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
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- A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
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- A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
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- A slight and brief essay.
- 8.
- A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
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- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.
- 10.
- 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.
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- That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
- 12.
- A boys' game; tag.
- 13.
- A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
- 14.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- 15.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040.
- 16.
- An act of borrowing or stealing.
- 17.
- Tallow; -- a plumber's term.
verb — past tense: touched ; past participle: touched ; present participle: touching ;
- 1.
- Feature; lineament; trait.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To compare with; of be equal to; -- usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from.
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- Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
- 5.
- Personal reference or application.
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- Act or power of exciting emotion.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
- 8.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
- 9.
- (TRANSITIVE) To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
- 10.
- (TRANSITIVE) To perceive by the sense of feeling.
- 11.
- (TRANSITIVE) To come to; to reach; to attain to.
- 12.
- (TRANSITIVE) To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To relate to; to concern; to affect.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To infect; to affect slightly.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To perform, as a tune; to play.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To harm, afflict, or distress.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To be tangent to.
- 25.
- To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.