to examine by touch

  • 1touch# — touch vb 1 Touch, feel, palpate, handle, paw can all mean to lay the hand or fingers or an equally sensitive part of the body upon so as to get or produce a sensation often in examination or exploration. Touch usually stresses the act which leads …

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  • 2Touch Detective — Cover art Developer(s) BeeWorks Publisher(s) …

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  • 3touch — [n1] physical contact blow, brush, caress, collision, communication, contact, contingence, crash, cuddling, embrace, feel, feeling, fondling, graze, grope, handling, hit, hug, impact, junction, kiss, lick, manipulation, nudge, palpation, pat,… …

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  • 4touch — Synonyms and related words: ESP, Roman candle, ability, abut, access, adjoin, adroitness, affect, aid to navigation, alarm, alight, allegory, allude to, allusion, amber light, amount to, answer, answer to, appertain to, apply, apply to, apprehend …

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  • 5touch — v 1. feel, finger, thumb, palm; hold, pick up, handle, manipulate, twiddle, trifle with, play with; palpate, poke around in; examine or investigate or study with the hands, stroke, caress, pet, fondle, paw, Sl. feel up, Yiddish. glet; massage,… …

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  • 6touch upon — Synonyms and related words: address to, affect, allude to, answer to, appertain to, apply to, bear on, bear upon, belong to, blink, bring to attention, bring to notice, brush, brush by, call attention to, carefully ignore, cite, cold shoulder,… …

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  • 7The Medusa Touch (film) — Infobox Film name = The Medusa Touch image size= 175 caption = Original 1978 film poster. director = Jack Gold producer = Arnon Milchan, Anne V. Coates, Jack Gold writer = Peter Van Greenaway (novel), John Briley (screenplay) starring = Richard… …

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  • 8Palpate — To examine by touch or feel. On the physical examination of a patient, the edge of an enlarged liver may often be palpated below the rib cage. Palpate comes from the Latin palpare (to stroke or to pat). Just as the Latin word means to touch or… …

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  • 9feel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. touch, taste; experience; bear, suffer, endure (see durability); infer, intuit; explore. n. emotion, feeling; touch; informal, aptitude, understanding. See reasoning, intellect. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn …

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  • 10feel — /feel/, v., felt, feeling, n. v.t. 1. to perceive or examine by touch. 2. to have a sensation of (something), other than by sight, hearing, taste, or smell: to feel a toothache. 3. to find or pursue (one s way) by touching, groping, or cautious… …

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