touch is on the Basic English 850 List. top - touch - town touch is one of the 1000 most common headwords. total - touch - toward Pronunciation enPR: tûch, IPA (key): /tʌʧ/ SAMPA: /tVtS/ Audio (US)(file) Verb Plain form touch Third-person singular touches Past tense touched Past participle touched Present participle touching The man is touching the computer (transitive) If you touch something, you feel it with your hand. Don't touch the oven -- it's hot and you will get a burn. (transitive) If you touch something, you move so near to it that there is no space between you and it. Noun Singular touch Plural es (countable & uncountable) Touch is the act of feeling or coming into physical contact with something. A gentle touch of the fabric told her it was silk. (uncountable) Touch is ability to feel through the skin by physical contact. After the accident, he lost his sense of touch. (countable) A touch of something is a small amount of it. There was a touch of sadness in his voice. Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.