Touch vs. Brush

Touchverb

Primarily physical senses.

Touchverb

(transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.

Touchverb

(transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.

Touchverb

(intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.

Touchverb

(intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.

Touchverb

(transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.

Touchverb

(transitive) To cause to be briefly in contact with something.

Touchverb

(transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.

Touchverb

(transitive) To consume, or otherwise use.

Touchverb

(intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).

Touchverb

To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.

Touchverb

To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.

Touchverb

To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

Touchverb

(nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touchverb

To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touchverb

(nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.

Touchverb

Primarily non-physical senses.

Touchverb

(transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.

Touchverb

To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.

Touchverb

(intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).

Touchverb

(transitive) To concern, to have to do with.

Touchverb

(transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.

Touchverb

To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.

Touchverb

To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.

Touchverb

To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).

Touchverb

To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".

Touchverb

To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.

Touchverb

(transitive) To come close to; to approach.

Touchverb

To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.

Touchverb

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

Touchverb

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

Touchverb

(obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.

Touchverb

To strike; to manipulate; to play on.

Touchverb

To perform, as a tune; to play.

Touchverb

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

Touchnoun

An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.

Touchnoun

The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.

Touchnoun

The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.

Touchnoun

A distinguishing feature or characteristic.

Touchnoun

A little bit; a small amount.

Touchnoun

The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.

Touchnoun

A relationship of close communication or understanding.

Touchnoun

The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) An emotion or affection.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) Personal reference or application.

Touchnoun

A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) A brief essay.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

Touchnoun

(obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

Touchnoun

(music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.

Touchnoun

(shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

Touchnoun

The children's game of tag.

Touchnoun

(bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.

Touchnoun

(slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.

Touchnoun

tallow

Touchverb

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

Touchverb

To perceive by the sense of feeling.

Touchverb

To come to; to reach; to attain to.

Touchverb

To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

Touchverb

To relate to; to concern; to affect.

Touchverb

To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

Touchverb

To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.

Touchverb

To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity, compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in.

Touchverb

To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

Touchverb

To infect; to affect slightly.

Touchverb

To make an impression on; to have effect upon.

Touchverb

To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.

Touchverb

To perform, as a tune; to play.

Touchverb

To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.

Touchverb

To harm, afflict, or distress.

Touchverb

To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; - rarely used except in the past participle.

Touchverb

To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

Touchverb

To lay a hand upon for curing disease.

Touchverb

To compare with; to be equal to; - usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire.

Touchverb

To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from.

Touchverb

To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.

Touchverb

To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.

Touchverb

To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; - often with on or upon.

Touchverb

To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.

Touchnoun

The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

Touchnoun

The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile.

Touchnoun

Act or power of exciting emotion.

Touchnoun

An emotion or affection.

Touchnoun

Personal reference or application.

Touchnoun

A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.

Touchnoun

A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.

Touchnoun

Feature; lineament; trait.

Touchnoun

The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.

Touchnoun

A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.

Touchnoun

A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.

Touchnoun

A slight and brief essay.

Touchnoun

A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.

Touchnoun

Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.

Touchnoun

The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

Touchnoun

The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.

Touchnoun

That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.

Touchnoun

A boys' game; tag.

Touchnoun

A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040.

Touchnoun

An act of borrowing or stealing.

Touchnoun

Tallow; - a plumber's term.

Touchnoun

the event of something coming in contact with the body;

Touchnoun

the faculty of touch;

Touchnoun

a suggestion of some quality;

Touchnoun

a distinguishing style;

Touchnoun

the act of putting two things together with no space between them;

Touchnoun

a slight but appreciable addition;

Touchnoun

a communicative interaction;

Touchnoun

a slight attack of illness;

Touchnoun

the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan);

Touchnoun

the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin;

Touchnoun

deftness in handling matters;

Touchnoun

the feel of mechanical action;

Touchverb

make physical contact with, come in contact with;

Touchverb

perceive via the tactile sense;

Touchverb

affect emotionally;

Touchverb

have to do with or be relevant to;

Touchverb

be in direct physical contact with; make contact;

Touchverb

have an effect upon;

Touchverb

deal with; usually used with a form of negation;

Touchverb

cause to be in brief contact with;

Touchverb

to extend as far as;

Touchverb

be equal to in quality or ability;

Touchverb

tamper with;

Touchverb

make a more or less disguised reference to;

Touchverb

comprehend;

Touchverb

consume;

Touchverb

dye with a color

Touchverb

come into or be in contact with

Touchverb

bring one's hand or another part of one's body into contact with

Touchverb

come or bring into mutual contact

Touchverb

strike (a ball) lightly in a specified direction

Touchverb

be tangent to (a curve or surface) at a certain point.

Touchverb

handle in order to interfere with, alter, or otherwise affect

Touchverb

cause harm to (someone)

Touchverb

consume or use (food, drink, money, etc.)

Touchverb

used to indicate that something is avoided or rejected

Touchverb

affect or concern

Touchverb

(of a quality or expression) be or become visible or apparent in

Touchverb

produce feelings of affection, gratitude, or sympathy in

Touchverb

reach (a specified level or amount)

Touchverb

be comparable to in quality or excellence

Touchverb

ask someone for (money or some other commodity) as a loan or gift

Touchverb

lightly mark in features or other details with a brush or pencil.

Touchnoun

an act of touching someone or something

Touchnoun

the faculty of perception through physical contact, especially with the fingers

Touchnoun

a musician's manner of playing keys or strings.

Touchnoun

the manner in which a musical instrument's keys or strings respond to being played

Touchnoun

a light stroke with a pen, pencil, etc.

Touchnoun

a small amount; a trace

Touchnoun

a small distinctive detail or feature

Touchnoun

a distinctive manner or method of dealing with something

Touchnoun

an ability to deal with something successfully

Touchnoun

the area beyond the sidelines, out of play

Touchnoun

an act of asking for and getting a loan or gift from someone

Touchnoun

a series of changes shorter than a peal.

Touchnoun

a thing that tests the worth or character of something

Brushnoun

An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair.

Brushnoun

The act of brushing something.

Brushnoun

A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine.

Brushnoun

A brush-like electrical discharge of sparks.

Brushnoun

(uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees (Wikipedia).

Brushnoun

A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.

Brushnoun

The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.

Brushnoun

(zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

Brushnoun

(archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.

Brushnoun

(music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.

Brushnoun

(computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.

Brushnoun

(video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area.

Brushnoun

The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.

Brushnoun

(North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in wreathmaking.

Brushverb

(transitive) To clean with a brush.

Brushverb

(transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.

Brushverb

(transitive) To apply with a brush.

Brushverb

(transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.

Brushverb

(ambitransitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.

Brushverb

(intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.

Brushnoun

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

Brushnoun

The bushy tail of a fox.

Brushnoun

A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

Brushnoun

Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.

Brushnoun

A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

Brushnoun

land covered with brush{5}; in Australia, a dense growth of vegetation in good soil, including shrubs and trees, mostly small.

Brushnoun

A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

Brushnoun

The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed.

Brushnoun

A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy; a brush with the law.

Brushnoun

A short contest, or trial, of speed.

Brushverb

To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc., with a brush.

Brushverb

To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush.

Brushverb

To remove or gather by brushing, or by an act like that of brushing, or by passing lightly over, as wind; - commonly with off.

Brushverb

To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by.

Brushnoun

a dense growth of bushes

Brushnoun

an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle

Brushnoun

momentary contact

Brushnoun

conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor

Brushnoun

a minor short-term fight

Brushnoun

the act of brushing your teeth;

Brushnoun

the act of brushing your hair;

Brushnoun

contact with something dangerous or undesirable;

Brushverb

rub with a brush, or as if with a brush;

Brushverb

touch lightly and briefly;

Brushverb

clean with a brush;

Brushverb

sweep across or over;

Brushverb

remove with or as if with a brush;

Brushverb

cover by brushing;

Brushnoun

an implement with a handle and a block of bristles, hair, or wire, used especially for cleaning, applying a liquid or powder to a surface, or arranging the hair

Brushnoun

an act of sweeping, applying, or arranging with a brush or with one's hand

Brushnoun

a light and fleeting touch

Brushnoun

a brief encounter with someone or something unpleasant or notable

Brushnoun

the bushy tail of a fox.

Brushnoun

a drumstick with long wire bristles, used to make a soft hissing sound on drums or cymbals.

Brushnoun

a piece of carbon or metal serving as an electrical contact with a moving part in a motor or alternator.

Brushnoun

girls or women regarded sexually

Brushnoun

undergrowth, small trees, and shrubs.

Brushnoun

land covered with undergrowth, small trees, and shrubs.

Brushnoun

cut brushwood.

Brushnoun

dense forest.

Brushverb

remove (dust or dirt) by sweeping or scrubbing

Brushverb

use a brush or one's hand to remove dust or dirt from (something)

Brushverb

clean (one's teeth) with a brush.

Brushverb

arrange (one's hair) by running a brush through it

Brushverb

apply a liquid to (a surface) with a brush

Brushverb

touch lightly and gently

Brushverb

push (something) away with a quick movement of the hand

Brush

A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments. It generally consists of a handle or block to which filaments are affixed in either a parallel or perpendicular orientation, depending on the way the brush is to be gripped during use.