Touch vs Little - What's the difference?
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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
# (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
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# (label) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
#* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) :
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#* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society (2012), page 189:
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# To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
# (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.
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# (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)
# (label) To concern, to have to do with.
#* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) V:
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, 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:
# (label) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
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# (label) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
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# (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) ,
#* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
# To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To infect; to affect slightly.
To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
To perform, as a tune; to play.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
A little bit; a small amount.
* Shakespeare
The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
A relationship of close communication or understanding.
The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
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Act or power of exciting emotion.
* Shakespeare
An emotion or affection.
* Hooker
Personal reference or application.
* Francis Bacon
A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
* Dryden
A brief essay.
* Jonathan Swift
A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
* Shakespeare
* Fuller
Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
* Carew
* Shakespeare
The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
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.
Small in size.
Insignificant, trivial.
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(of a sibling) Younger.
* 1871 October 18, The One-eyed Philosopher [pseudonym], "Street Corners", in Judy: or the London serio-comic journal , volume 9, page 255 [http://books.google.com/books?id=_B4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA255]:
* 2004 , Barry Miles, Zappa: A Biography , 2005 edition, ISBN 080214215X, page 5:
Small in amount or number, having few members.
Short in duration; brief.
Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
* Tennyson
Not much.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
Not at all.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= Not much, only a little: only a small amount (of).
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 little is
.touch
English
Verb
(es)- Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee.
- 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.
- 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.
- Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch' upon gold, that will not ' touch upon silver.
- 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.
- "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."
- Men of Israhell take hede to youreselves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men.
- And now it seemed he was engaged in something which touched them closely, but must be hidden from their knowledge.
- 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.
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- On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient that touches 20%.
- I mean to touch your love indeed.
- The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right.
- (Francis Bacon)
- [They] touched their golden harps.
- A person in the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet.
- 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 woodNoun
(es)- Suddenly, in the crowd, I felt a touch at my shoulder.
- With the lights out, she had to rely on touch to find her desk.
- He performed one of Ravel's piano concertos with a wonderfully light and playful touch .
- Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.
- Move it left just a touch and it will be perfect.
- Madam, I have a touch of your condition.
- He got the ball, and kicked it straight out into touch .
- He promised to keep in touch while he was away.
- I used to be a great chess player but I've lost my touch .
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- Not alone / The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches , / Do strongly speak to us.
- a true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy
- Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used.
- Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design.
- Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch .
- Now do I play the touch .
- a neat new monument of touch and alabaster
- equity, the true touch of all laws
- friends of noble touch
- a heavy touch''', or a light '''touch
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-typeStatistics
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic wordslittle
English
(wikipedia little)Adjective
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- If you want to find Little' France, take any turning on the north side of Leicester square, and wander in a zigzag fashion Oxford Streetwards. The ' Little is rather smokier and more squalid than the Great France upon the other side of the Manche.
- In the forties, hurdy-gurdy men could still be heard in all those East Coast cities with strong Italian neighbourhoods: New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston. A visit to Baltimore's Little Italy at that time was like a trip to Italy itself.
- a little sleep
- The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise, / Because their natures are little .
Usage notes
Some authorities regard both littler' and '''littlest''' as non-standard. The OED says of the word little: "''the adjective has no recognized mode of comparison. The difficulty is commonly evaded by resort to a synonym (as smaller, smallest); some writers have ventured to employ the unrecognized forms littler, littlest, which are otherwise confined to dialect or imitations of childish or illiterate speech.''" The forms '''lesser''' and ' least are encountered in animal names such as lesser flamingo and least weasel.Antonyms
* (small) large, big * (young) big * (younger) bigAdverb
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Antonyms
* muchDeterminer
- There is little water left.
- We had very little to do.