Touch vs. Tap

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

Tapnoun

A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.

Tapnoun

A device used to dispense liquids.

Tapnoun

Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.

Tapnoun

A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.

Tapnoun

(mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)

Tapnoun

A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.

Tapnoun

An interception of communication by authority.

Tapnoun

A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.

Tapnoun

A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.

Tapnoun

A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

Tapnoun

tap dance

Tapnoun

(computing) The act of touching a touch screen.

Tapnoun

A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel; a heeltap.

Tapnoun

(military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.

Tapnoun

(phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

Tapnoun

An Indian malarial fever.

Tapverb

To furnish with taps.

Tapverb

To draw off liquid from a vessel.

Tapverb

To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.

Tapverb

To exploit.

Tapverb

To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.

Tapverb

To intercept a communication without authority.

Tapverb

(mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.

Tapverb

To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).

Tapverb

(informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.

Tapverb

To drain off fluid by paracentesis.

Tapverb

To strike lightly.

Tapverb

To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.

Tapverb

To make a sharp noise.

Tapverb

To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.

Tapverb

To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.

Tapverb

To have sexual intercourse with.

Tapverb

(combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.

Tapverb

To force (an opponent) to submit.

Tapverb

To put a new sole or heel on.

Tapverb

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

Tapverb

To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.

Tapverb

To strike a gentle blow.

Tapverb

To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, a keg of beer, etc.

Tapverb

Hence, to draw resources from (a reservoir) in any analogous way; as, to tap someone's knowledge of the Unix system; to tap the treasury.

Tapverb

To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.

Tapverb

To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut, a pipe, or tubing.

Tapverb

to connect a listening device to (a telephone or telegraph line) secretly, for the purpose of hearing private conversations; also, to obtain or record (information) by tapping; - a technique used by law enforcement agencies investigating suspected criminals. In the United States it is illegal without a court order permitting it.

Tapnoun

A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.

Tapnoun

A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

Tapnoun

A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, - usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.

Tapnoun

A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

Tapnoun

A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

Tapnoun

Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.

Tapnoun

A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.

Tapnoun

A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.

Tapnoun

the sound made by a gentle blow

Tapnoun

a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask

Tapnoun

a gentle blow

Tapnoun

a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing)

Tapnoun

a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads

Tapnoun

a plug for a bunghole in a cask

Tapnoun

the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information

Tapnoun

a light touch or stroke

Tapverb

cut a female screw thread with a tap

Tapverb

draw from or dip into to get something;

Tapverb

strike lightly;

Tapverb

draw from; make good use of;

Tapverb

tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information;

Tapverb

furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it;

Tapverb

make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Tapverb

walk with a tapping sound

Tapverb

dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes;

Tapverb

draw (liquor) from a tap;

Tapverb

pierce in order to draw a liquid from;

Tapverb

make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;

Tapnoun

a device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled

Tapnoun

an electrical connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component.

Tapnoun

a device connected to a telephone for listening secretly to someone's conversations

Tapnoun

an act of listening secretly to someone's telephone conversation.

Tapnoun

an instrument for cutting a threaded hole in a material.

Tapnoun

a taproom.

Tapnoun

a quick light blow, or the sound of such a blow

Tapnoun

tap dancing

Tapnoun

a piece of metal attached to the toe and heel of a tap dancer's shoe to make a tapping sound.

Tapnoun

a bugle call for lights to be put out in army quarters

Tapnoun

a bugle call sounded at a military funeral.

Tapnoun

(in the Guide movement) a closing song sung at an evening camp fire or at the end of a meeting.

Tapverb

draw liquid through the tap or spout of (a cask, barrel, or other container)

Tapverb

draw (liquid) from a cask, barrel, or other container

Tapverb

draw sap from (a tree) by cutting into it.

Tapverb

exploit or draw a supply from (a resource)

Tapverb

obtain money or information from (someone)

Tapverb

connect a device to (a telephone) so that conversation can be listened to secretly

Tapverb

cut a thread in (something) to accept a screw

Tapverb

strike with a quick light blow or blows

Tapverb

strike (something) against something else with a quick light blow or blows

Tapverb

produce (a rhythm) with a series of quick light blows on a surface

Tapverb

write or enter (something) using a keyboard or keypad

Tapverb

approach (a sports player) unlawfully with a view to signing them to another club while they are still under contract with their current one.

Tapverb

designate or select (someone) for a task or honour, especially membership of an organization or committee