touch-type

/ˈtʌtʃtʌɪp/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈtʌtʃtʌɪp/

touchtype

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

touch - type -> touch type

Myanmar meaning

လက်နှိပ်စက်ကို မျက်နှာလွှဲ ရိုက်သည်။

Full entry

touch / tʌtʃ / v

၁။ ထိသည်။ The two wires were touching. ❍ One of the branches was just touching the water. ❍ These seats are so high that my feet don't touch the ground. ❍ Don't let your coat touch the wall—the paint's still wet.
၂။ ထိသည်။ တို့သည်။ Don't touch that dish—it's very hot! ❍ Can you touch your toes (ie reach them with your hands)? ❍ He touched her gently on the cheek.
၃။ ထိသည်။ I told you not to touch my things! ❍ He says I twisted his arm, but I never even touched him! ❍ Fortunately the paintings were not touched by the fire. ❍ What he did was perfectly legal—the police can't touch (ie arrest) him for it.
၄။ (usu in negative sentences) တို့သည်။ You've hardly touched your meal. ❍ She never touches alcohol.
၅။ ထိခိုက် သည်။ ခိုက်သည်။ a sad story that touched us all deeply ❍ I could see she was touched by what he said.
၆။ (dated or fml ) ထိခိုက်သည်။ ထိတွေ့သည်။ a region that has never been touched by industry ❍ matters touching/ that touch us all.
၇။ (usu in negative sentences) မီသည်။ No one can touch him (ie He is the best) as a designer/in design ❍ There's nothing to touch mountain air for giving you an appetite.
၈။ တိုင်သည်။ touch the depths of despair ❍ The speedometer was touching 120 mph. ❍ After touching 143, the share price fell back to 108 by the close of trading.
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၁။ [C usu sing ] ထိခြင်း။ I felt the touch of her hand on my arm. ❍ That pile of books looks as though it will collapse at the slightest touch.
၂။ [U] အတွေ့အထိအာရုံ။ ဖောဋ္ဌဗ္ဗာရုံ။ Blind people rely a lot on (their sense of ) touch. See also mIDAS TOUCH
၃။ [sing] အတွေ့။ အတွေ့ အထိ။ be soft/ cold/ warm to the touch ❍ material with a smooth, silky touch.
၄။ [C] အနုစိတ် မွမ်းမံမှု။ That was a nice touch. ❍ She's putting the finishing touches on her latest novel.
၅။ [sing] a ~ (of sth ) စိုးစဉ်း။ အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ ‘Do you take sugar?’ ’Just a touch. ’ ❍ There's a touch of frost in the air. ❍ I think the sauce needs a touch more garlic. ❍ I've got a touch of flu.
၆။ [sing] လက်ကျလက်န။ လက်ရာ။ လုပ်ပုံကိုင်ပုံ။ play the piano with a light/heavy/ firm/ delicate touch ❍ service with a personal touch ❍ a computer graphics programme that gives your work the professional touch.
၇။ [sing] လက် (ပျက်သည်၊ မှန်သည် စသည်)။ I can't do the crossword today— I must be losing my touch.
၈။ [U](in football and Rugby) စည်းအပြင် ဘက်။ kick the ball into touch.
❏ at a touch [IDM ] ထိရုံနှင့်။ The machine stops and starts at a touch.
❏ be touched with sth [IDM ] အနည်းငယ် ရောစွက်သည်။ hair touched with grey ❍ an atmosphere touched with nostalgia.
❏ an easy / a soft touch [IDM ] (sl ) သဘောလွယ်သူ။
❏ in/ out of touch (with sb) [IDM ] အဆက်အသွယ် ရှိသည်၊ မရှိ။ Let's keep in touch. ❍ Do get in touch soon (eg by phone). ❍ Our head office can put you in touch with a branch in your area. ❍ I'll be in touch again towards the end of the week. ❍ We've been out of touch with Roger for years now.
❏ in/ out of touch with sth [IDM ] လက်ပွန်း တတီးရှိသည်၊ မရှိ။ keep in touch with current events by reading the newspaper.
❏ not touch sb/sth with a bargepole [IDM ] (Brit infml ) ပတ်သက်ဖို့ လုံးဝစိတ်မကူး။ I can't think why she wants to marry that awful man—I wouldn't touch him with a bargepole.
❏ a touch [IDM ]( with an adj or adv ) အနည်းငယ်။ နည်းနည်း။ တစ်ဆိတ်။ စိုးစဉ်း။ It's a touch colder today. ❍ She hit the ball a touch too hard.
❏ touch-and-go adj (infml ) ချိန်ခွင်လျှာကစားနေ [သော]။ ကံဆိုးကံကောင်း။ It was touch- and-go whether we would get to the airport in time. ❍ She was so ill that it was touch-and-go whether she would live or not.
❏ touch bottom [IDM ] ဒုတ်ဒုတ်ထိရောက်သည်။ The property market seems to have touched bottom.
❏ touch down [PHRV ]
၁။ (လေယာဉ်မြေပေါ်) ဆင်းသည်။
၂။ (ရတ္ဂ်ဘီတွင်) တစ်ဖက်အသင်း၏ ဂိုးစည်းကို ဘောလုံးနှင့် ထိသည်။
❏ touch football n [U] (US ) တစ်ဖက်အသင်းသား သယ်လာ သည့် ဘောလုံးကို ခြေဖြင့်မဖျက်ထုတ်ရဘဲ ထိရုံဖြင့်ဖျက်ရသော ဘောလုံးကစားနည်း။
❏ touch sb for sth [PHRV ] (sl ) ငွေချူသည်။ He tried to touch me for a fiver.
❏ touch-line n ဘောလုံးကွင်း ဘေးတစ်ဖက် တစ်ချက်ကို သတ်မှတ်ထားသော မျဉ်း။
❏ touch sth off [PHRV] အစပျိုးပေးလိုက်သည်။ His arrest touched off a riot.
❏ touch on/upon sth [PHRV ] ကိုင်တွယ်သည်။ ထည့်သွင်း စဉ်းစားသည်။ The article hardly touches on the central issue in the whole debate.
❏ touch-type v လက်နှိပ်စက်ကို မျက်နှာလွှဲ ရိုက်သည်။
❏ touch sb up [PHRV ] (sl ) မဖွယ်မရာ ကိုင်သည်၊ နှိုက်သည်။
❏ touch sth up [PHRV ] မှုန်းသည်။ touch up some scratches with a bit of paint.
❏ touch wood (Brit ); (US ) knock on wood [IDM ] (catchphrase ) ဖွဟဲ့ လွဲစေဖယ်စေ။ I've been driving for 20 years and never had an accident—touch wood!

More examples

Beth reached out and touched his cheek.
He was careful not to touch the blood.
[touch something to something] : ‘Be quiet!’ she said, touching her finger to her lips.
He touched the napkin briefly to his chin.
Kate touched a button and the machine whirred into action.
It was the first time he had touched her.
The chair was so high that his feet couldn’t touch the ground.
They stood next to each other, barely touching.
His comments really touched me.
He was touched by their suffering and offered to help.
[touch someone’s heart] : The plight of the orphans has touched the hearts of thousands of people.
I was really touched by the flowers he sent.
Eric was touched by her concern.
She touched many people’s lives through her charity work.
The old farmhouse has hardly been touched by modern trends.
A trace of a smile touched her lips.
She was so upset that she had barely touched her food.
I never touch meat or dairy products.
Don’t touch anything of mine while I’m away.
I haven’t touched any of the money she left me.
I haven’t touched the garden for weeks.
I wouldn’t touch such a difficult piece of work.
Most employers won’t touch you if you’ve got a criminal record.
Police recorded him driving at speeds touching 120 miles per hour.

Synonyms

stroke, feel, handle, finger, contact, tap, lay a hand on, pat, ability, abut, acquaintance, adeptness, adjoin, adroitness, affect, allude to, amount, approach, arouse, art, artistry, awareness, bad tempered, be a match for, be a party to, be associated with, be in contact, be in the same league, be on a par, bear on, bear upon, belong to, bit, blow, border, bring in, brush, butt on, caress, carry, center upon, characteristic, collision, come close to, come into contact, come near, come to, come together, come up to, command, communicate, communication, compete with, concern, concern oneself with, consume, contingence, converge, cover, crash, cuddling, dab, dash, deal with, deftness, detail, direction, discuss, disturb, drink, drop, eat, effect, embrace, equal, examine, excite, facility, faculty, familiarity, feel out, feel up, feeling, finish, flair, fondle, fondling, frisk, get involved in, get through to, get to, gift, glance, go over, grab, graze, grope, hand, handiwork, handling, hint, hit, hold a candle to, hug, impact, impinge upon, impress, influence, inkling, inspect, inspire, interest, intimation, involve, join, jot, junction, kiss, knack, lay a finger on, lick, line, link, little, liverish, low-down and dirty, low-down dirty, lowdown and dirty, make an impression, make mention, manipulate, manipulation, manner, march, mark, massage, mastery, match, mean, measure up, meet, melt, mention, method, move, neighbor, note, nudge, osculate, palm, palpate, palpation, parallel, partake, partake of, paw, peck, perception, percuss, percussion

Antonyms

abstain, avoid, build, calm, conceal, cower, disconnect, discourage, disjoin, dissuade, divide, fail, failure, hide, ignorance, ignore, impotence, inability, incapacity, ineptitude, lack, lose, loss, lot, manhandle, miss, neglect, order, pacify, quiet, refrain, secrete, separate, shrink, shy away, suppress, weakness, whole