At a touch

Definition

touch / tʌtʃ / v ၁။ ထိသည္။ 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။ ထိသည္။ တို႔သည္။ 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။ ထိသည္။ 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) တို႔သည္။ You've hardly touched your meal. ❍ She never touches alcohol. ၅။ ထိခိုက္ သည္။ ခိုက္သည္။ a sad story that touched us all deeply ❍ I could see she was touched by what he said. ၆။ ( dated or fml ) ထိခိုက္သည္။ ထိေတြ႕သည္။ a region that has never been touched by industry ❍ matters touching/ that touch us all. ၇။ (usu in negative sentences) မီသည္။ 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။ တိုင္သည္။ 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. n ၁။ [C usu sing ] ထိျခင္း။ 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] အေတြ႕အထိအာ႐ံု။ ေဖာ႒ဗၺာ႐ံု။ Blind people rely a lot on (their sense of ) touch. See also mIDAS TOUCH ၃။ [sing] အေတြ႕။ အေတြ႕ အထိ။ be soft/ cold/ warm to the touch ❍ material with a smooth, silky touch. ၄။ [C] အႏုစိတ္ မြမ္းမံမႈ။ That was a nice touch. ❍ She's putting the finishing touches on her latest novel. ၅။ [sing] a ~ ( of sth ) စိုးစဥ္း။ အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ ‘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] လက္က်လက္န။ လက္ရာ။ လုပ္ပံုကိုင္ပံု။ 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] လက္ (ပ်က္သည္၊ မွန္သည္ စသည္)။ I can't do the crossword today— I must be losing my touch. ၈။ [U](in football and Rugby) စည္းအျပင္ ဘက္။ kick the ball into touch. ❏ at a touch [ IDM ] ထိ႐ံုႏွင့္။ The machine stops and starts at a touch. ❏ be touched with sth [ IDM ] အနည္းငယ္ ေရာစြက္သည္။ hair touched with grey ❍ an atmosphere touched with nostalgia. ❏ an easy / a soft touch [ IDM ] ( sl ) သေဘာလြယ္သူ။ ❏ in/ out of touch (with sb) [ IDM ] အဆက္အသြယ္ ရိွသည္၊ မရိွ။ 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 ] လက္ပြန္း တတီးရိွသည္၊ မရိွ။ keep in touch with current events by reading the newspaper. ❏ not touch sb/sth with a bargepole [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ပတ္သက္ဖို႔ လံုးဝစိတ္မကူး။ 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 ) အနည္းငယ္။ နည္းနည္း။ တစ္ဆိတ္။ စိုးစဥ္း။ It's a touch colder today. ❍ She hit the ball a touch too hard. ❏ touch-and-go adj ( infml ) ခ်ိန္ခြင္လွ်ာကစားေန [ေသာ]။ ကံဆိုးကံေကာင္း။ 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 ] ဒုတ္ဒုတ္ထိေရာက္သည္။ The property market seems to have touched bottom. ❏ touch down [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေလယာဥ္ေျမေပၚ) ဆင္းသည္။ ၂။ (ရတၢ္ဘီတြင္) တစ္ဖက္အသင္း၏ ဂိုးစည္းကို ေဘာလံုးႏွင့္ ထိသည္။ ❏ touch football n [U] ( US ) တစ္ဖက္အသင္းသား သယ္လာ သည့္ ေဘာလံုးကို ေျချဖင့္မဖ်က္ထုတ္ရဘဲ ထိ႐ံုျဖင့္ဖ်က္ရေသာ ေဘာလံုးကစားနည္း။ ❏ touch sb for sth [ PHRV ] ( sl ) ေငြခ်ဴသည္။ He tried to touch me for a fiver. ❏ touch-line n ေဘာလံုးကြင္း ေဘးတစ္ဖက္ တစ္ခ်က္ကို သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ မ်ဥ္း။ ❏ touch sth off [ PHRV ] အစပ်ဳိးေပးလိုက္သည္။ His arrest touched off a riot. ❏ touch on/upon sth [ PHRV ] ကိုင္တြယ္သည္။ ထည့္သြင္း စဥ္းစားသည္။ The article hardly touches on the central issue in the whole debate. ❏ touch-type v လက္ႏိွပ္စက္ကို မ်က္ႏွာလႊဲ ႐ိုက္သည္။ ❏ touch sb up [ PHRV ] ( sl ) မဖြယ္မရာ ကိုင္သည္၊ ႏိႈက္သည္။ ❏ touch sth up [ PHRV ] မႈန္းသည္။ touch up some scratches with a bit of paint. ❏ touch wood ( Brit ); (US ) knock on wood [ IDM ] ( catchphrase ) ဖြဟဲ့ လြဲေစဖယ္ေစ။ I've been driving for 20 years and never had an accident—touch wood!

Examples

1. Beth reached out and touched his cheek.
2. He was careful not to touch the blood.
3. [touch something to something] : ‘Be quiet!’ she said
4. touching her finger to her lips.
5. He touched the napkin briefly to his chin.
6. Kate touched a button and the machine whirred into action.
7. It was the first time he had touched her.
8. The chair was so high that his feet couldn’t touch the ground.
9. They stood next to each other
10. barely touching.
11. His comments really touched me.
12. He was touched by their suffering and offered to help.
13. [touch someone’s heart] : The plight of the orphans has touched the hearts of thousands of people.
14. I was really touched by the flowers he sent.
15. Eric was touched by her concern.
16. She touched many people’s lives through her charity work.
17. The old farmhouse has hardly been touched by modern trends.
18. A trace of a smile touched her lips.
19. She was so upset that she had barely touched her food.
20. I never touch meat or dairy products.
21. Don’t touch anything of mine while I’m away.
22. I haven’t touched any of the money she left me.
23. I haven’t touched the garden for weeks.
24. I wouldn’t touch such a difficult piece of work.
25. Most employers won’t touch you if you’ve got a criminal record.
26. Police recorded him driving at speeds touching 120 miles per hour.
27. He hardly touched the ball during the game.
28. He is a great sportsman
29. but he can’t touch his brother.