Synonyms of the word

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

adeptness

• n. The quality of being adept.

adjoin

• v. (transitive) To be in contact or connection with.
• v. (transitive, mathematics, chiefly algebra and number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field,…

adroitness

• n. skillfulness or ease of ability.

advert

• n. (Britain, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
• v. To turn attention.
• v. To call attention, refer; construed with to.

affect

• v. (transitive) To influence or alter.
• v. (transitive) To move to emotion.
• v. (transitive) Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dispose or incline.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To assign; to appoint.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To aim for, to try to obtain.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To feel affection for (someone); to like, be fond of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To show a fondness for (something); to choose.
• v. (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretence of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display…
• n. (obsolete) One's mood or inclination; mental state.
• n. (obsolete) A desire, an appetite.
• n. (psychology) A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion,…

allude

• v. (intransitive) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

care

• n. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow.
• n. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
• n. Worry.
• n. Maintenance, upkeep.
• n. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
• n. The state of being cared for by others.
• n. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned about, have an interest in.
• v. (intransitive) To look after.
• v. (intransitive) To be mindful of.
• v. (intransitive) Polite or formal way to say want.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colorize

• v. To add color to.
• v. (photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

colourise

• v. (Britain) Alternative form of colorize (to add colour to).
• v. (Britain, photography, cinematography) Alternative form of colorize (to convert black and white media…

colourize

• v. (Britain) Alternative spelling of colorize and colourise.

communicating

• v. present participle of communicate.

communication

• n. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
• n. (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
• n. A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
• n. The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
• n. An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
• n. A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
• n. (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
• n. (obsolete) Association; company.
• n. Participation in Holy Communion.
• n. (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says…

compete

• v. To be in battle or in a rivalry with another for the same thing, position, or reward; to contend.
• v. To be in a position in which it is possible to win or triumph.
• v. To take part in a contest, game or similar event.

comprehend

• v. (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain.
• v. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

concern

• n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before…
• n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
• n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
• n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of;…
• v. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
• v. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

consume

• v. (transitive) To use up.
• v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
• v. (transitive) To eat.
• v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

contact

• n. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• n. The establishment of communication (with).
• n. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
• n. Someone with whom one is in communication.
• n. (informal) A contact lens.
• n. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
• n. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
• n. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
• v. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
• v. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.

contend

• v. To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
• v. To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
• v. To strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

deed

• n. An action or act; something that is done.
• n. A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.
• n. Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.
• n. (law) A legal contract showing bond in form of a document.
• v. (informal) To transfer real property by deed.

deftness

• n. The characteristic of being deft.

disturb

• v. (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions…
• v. (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
• v. (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
• n. (obsolete) disturbance.

effort

• n. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
• n. An endeavour.
• n. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
• v. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To stimulate.

equal

• adj. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
• adj. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
• adj. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
• adj. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• adj. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• adj. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
• v. (mathematics) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• v. To be equivalent to; to match.
• v. (informal) To have as its consequence.
• n. A person or thing of equal status to others.
• n. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

exploit

• n. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
• n. An achievement.
• n. (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
• v. (transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

exteroception

• n. The perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body.

facility

• n. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
• n. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
• n. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required…
• n. An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific…
• n. (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet.

fashion

• n. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical,…
• n. (uncountable) Popular trends.
• n. (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
• n. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship;…
• n. (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
• v. To make, build or construct.
• v. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
• v. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
• v. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

feat

• n. A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.
• adj. (archaic) Dexterous in movements or service; skilful; neat; pretty.
• v. (obsolete) To form; to fashion.

feel

• v. (heading) To use the sense of touch.
• v. (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
• v. (transitive) To be or become aware of.
• v. (transitive) To experience the consequences of.
• v. (copulative) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To understand.
• n. A quality of an object experienced by touch.
• n. A vague mental impression.
• n. An act of fondling.
• n. A vague understanding.
• n. An intuitive ability.
• n. (chiefly US, slang) Alternative form of feeling.
• pron. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.
• adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Alternative form of fele.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

ghost

• n. (dated) The spirit; the soul of man.
• n. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition;…
• n. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
• n. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of…
• n. An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused…
• n. A ghostwriter.
• n. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying…
• n. (computing) An image of a file or hard disk.
• n. (theater) An understudy.
• n. (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.
• n. The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
• n. (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players…
• n. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
• n. (attributive, in names of species) White or pale.
• n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
• n. (attributive) Abandoned.
• n. (attributive) The remains of.
• n. (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
• n. (attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
• n. (attributive) Substitute.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
• v. (obsolete) To die; to expire.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To ghostwrite.
• v. (nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.
• v. (computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.
• v. (graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
• v. To appear without warning; To move quickly and quietly; to slip.
• v. to kill.
• v. to break up with someone without warning or explanation (see ghosting).

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

hint

• n. A clue.
• n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
• n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
• n. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should…
• n. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
• v. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
• v. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
• v. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

impact

• n. The striking of one body against another; collision.
• n. The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
• n. (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
• n. A significant or strong influence; an effect.
• v. (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
• v. (transitive, proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an impact on.
• v. (transitive) To collide or strike.

impinging

• v. present participle of impinge.

impress

• v. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
• v. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
• v. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
• v. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
• v. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
• v. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
• v. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
• v. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
• n. The act of impressing.
• n. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
• n. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
• n. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
• n. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
• n. A heraldic device; an impresa.
• n. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which…

ingest

• v. To take into the body, as for digestion.

jot

• n. Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.
• n. A small amount, bit; the smallest amount.
• n. (obsolete) Moment, instant.
• n. A brief and hurriedly written note.
• v. (usually with "down") To write quickly.

manage

• v. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
• v. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
• v. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
• v. (intransitive) To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
• v. To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
• v. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
• v. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
• n. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
• n. (horseriding) Manège.

manner

• n. Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything; method; style; form; fashion.
• n. Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing.
• n. One's customary method of acting; habit.
• n. good, polite behaviour.
• n. The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
• n. A certain degree or measure.
• n. Sort; kind; style.
• n. Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.

match

• n. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
• n. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
• n. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
• n. A marriage.
• n. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
• n. Suitability.
• n. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
• n. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
• n. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
• n. An agreement or compact.
• n. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly…
• v. (intransitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.
• v. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
• v. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
• v. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
• v. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove…
• n. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being…

meet

• v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
• v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
• v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
• v. To satisfy; to comply with.
• v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
• n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
• n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
• n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. A meeting.
• n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
• n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
• adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

mite

• n. A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species.
• n. A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
• n. A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
• n. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
• n. (sometimes used advernially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
• n. (colloquial, often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of might.

mode

• n. (music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
• n. (music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major…
• n. A particular means of accomplishing something.
• n. (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
• n. (mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
• n. (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
• n. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish,…
• n. Style or fashion.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

partake

• v. (intransitive, formal) To take part in an activity; to participate.
• v. (intransitive) To take a share or portion (of).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To have something of the properties, character, or office (of).

perceive

• v. To see, to be aware of, to understand.

perception

• n. Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information.
• n. Conscious understanding of something.
• n. Vision (ability).
• n. Acuity.
• n. (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through…

pertain

• v. (intransitive) to belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of.
• v. (intransitive) to relate, to refer, be relevant to.
• v. (intransitive) To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

proffer

• n. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
• n. (law) Something that is offered into evidence; an offer to which one is willing to testify under oath.
• n. Essay; attempt.
• v. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of.
• v. To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.

proposition

• n. (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
• n. (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
• n. (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
• n. (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on…
• n. (grammar) a complete sentence.
• n. (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered…
• n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
• n. (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a…
• n. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
• n. (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
• v. (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone who one is not sexually…
• v. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

quickness

• n. rapidity of movement or activity; agility or dexterity.

reach

• v. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
• v. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand;…
• v. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
• v. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something…
• v. (intransitive) To strike or touch with a missile.
• v. (transitive) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
• v. (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
• v. (transitive) To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
• v. (obsolete) To understand; to comprehend.
• v. (obsolete) To overreach; to deceive.
• v. To strain after something; to make efforts.
• v. (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from…
• v. (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
• v. To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.
• n. The act of stretching or extending; extension.
• n. The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
• n. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management;…
• n. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
• n. (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
• n. (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
• n. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one…
• n. (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
• n. (obsolete) An article to obtain an advantage.
• n. The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
• n. An effort to vomit; a retching.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

relate

• v. (transitive) To tell in a descriptive way.
• v. (transitive) To give an association.
• v. (transitive) To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
• v. (intransitive) To have a connection.
• v. (intransitive) To interact.
• v. (intransitive) To respond through reaction.
• v. (intransitive, with to) To identify with, understand.
• v. (obsolete) To bring back; to restore.

rival

• n. A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same…
• n. Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.
• n. (obsolete) One having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
• adj. Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.
• v. (transitive) To oppose or compete with.
• v. To be equal to or to surpass another.
• v. To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

signature

• adj. Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
• n. A person’s name, written by that person, used to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a…
• n. The act of signing one's name.
• n. (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
• n. (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo.
• n. (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) pages printed such that, when folded, they become a…
• n. (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
• n. (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed…
• n. (figuratively) A mark or sign of implication.
• n. (mathematics) A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical…

solicitation

• n. the action or instance of soliciting; petition; proposal.
• n. (US, law) an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit a…

soupcon

• n. Alternative form of soupçon.

speck

• n. (countable) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
• n. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
• n. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma (Doration) stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
• v. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
• n. Fat; lard; fat meat.
• n. (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
• n. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
• n. The fat of the hippopotamus.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

stir

• v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
• v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
• v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
• v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
• v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
• v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
• v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
• v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
• n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
• n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
• n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
• n. (slang) Jail; prison.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

striking

• adj. Making a strong impression.
• v. present participle of strike.
• n. The act by which something strikes or is struck.

style

• n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
• n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
• n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
• n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
• n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
• n. (nonstandard) A stylus.
• n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
• n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
• n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
• n. A long, slender, bristle-like process.
• n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
• n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
• v. (transitive) To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
• v. (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.

suggest

• v. (transitive) To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.
• v. To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).
• v. (transitive) To ask for without demanding.
• v. (transitive) To recommend.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

suggestion

• n. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).
• n. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
• n. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
• n. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

tinct

• n. (archaic) a tint or colour.
• v. to tint, tinge or colour.
• adj. tinged or lightly coloured.
• n. Abbreviation of tincture.

tinge

• n. A small amount of something, especially of an added color.
• n. The degree of vividness of a color; shade, hue or tint.
• v. (transitive) To add a small amount of color; to tint.
• v. (transitive) To imbue or impregnate.

tint

• n. A slight coloring.
• n. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast…
• n. A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
• n. A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shade, to color.
• contract. (Yorkshire, colloquial) it is not; it isn't; 'tisn't; it'sn't.

touch

• v. Primarily physical senses.
• v. Primarily non-physical senses.
• v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
• v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
• v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
• v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
• v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
• v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
• n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
• n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
• n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
• n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
• n. A little bit; a small amount.
• n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
• n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
• n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
• n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
• n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
• n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
• n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
• n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
• n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
• n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
• n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
• n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
• n. The children's game of tag.
• n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
• n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
• n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

touching

• v. present participle of touch.
• adj. Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
• n. The act by which something is touched.

trace

• n. An act of tracing.
• n. An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
• n. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
• n. A very small amount.
• n. (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
• n. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
• n. One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree…
• n. (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting…
• n. (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
• n. The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
• n. (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been…
• v. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
• v. To follow the history of.
• v. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
• v. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To copy; to imitate.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
• v. (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction,…

understand

• v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
• v. To believe, based on information.
• v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
• v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

vie

• v. (intransitive) To rival; to struggle for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
• v. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
• v. To stake; to wager.
• v. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

way

• n. (heading) To do with a place or places.
• n. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
• n. A state or condition.
• n. (heading) Personal interaction.
• n. (paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft,…
• n. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
• n. A degree, an amount, a sense.
• n. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions…
• n. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large…
• n. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table…
• interj. (only in reply to no way) It is true.
• v. (obsolete) To travel.
• adv. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
• adv. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
• adv. (informal) Far.
• n. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.