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Meaning of स्पर्श in English

  • 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.
  • To perceive by the sense of feeling.
  • To come to; to reach; to attain to.
  • To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • To relate to; to concern; to affect.
  • To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.
  • To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books.
  • To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.
  • To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • To infect; to affect slightly.
  • To make an impression on; to have effect upon.
  • To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music.
  • To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • To harm, afflict, or distress.
  • To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
  • To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.
  • To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
  • To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points.
  • To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
  • To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; -- often with on or upon.
  • To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
  • The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.
  • 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.
  • Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • An emotion or affection.
  • Personal reference or application.
  • A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof.
  • A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • Feature; lineament; trait.
  • The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes.
  • A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash.
  • A hint; a suggestion; slight notice.
  • A slight and brief essay.
  • A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side.
  • A boys' game; tag.
  • of Tang
  • The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
  • of Touch
  • Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.
  • Concerning; with respect to.
  • The sense or act of feeling; touch.
  • The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

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