toucan | (noun) brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak | - |
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toucanet | (noun) small toucan | - |
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touch | (noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touching |
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(noun) the feel of mechanical action | - |
(noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: signature |
(noun) the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands) | Synonyms: cutaneous senses, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality |
(noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation |
(noun) deftness in handling matters | - |
(noun) the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan) | - |
(noun) a suggestion of some quality | Synonyms: ghost, trace |
(noun) a communicative interaction | Synonyms: contact |
(noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touching |
(noun) a slight but appreciable amount | Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge |
(noun) a slight attack of illness | Synonyms: spot |
(verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
(verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint |
(verb) comprehend | - |
(verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, allude |
(verb) consume | Synonyms: partake |
(verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with | - |
(verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet |
(verb) tamper with | Synonyms: disturb |
(verb) cause to be in brief contact with | - |
(verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: stir |
(verb) perceive via the tactile sense | - |
(verb) deal with; usually used with a form of negation | - |
(verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
(verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, reach |
(verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
touchable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch | Synonyms: tangible |
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touchback | (noun) (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone | - |
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touchdown | (noun) a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line | - |
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(noun) a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes | - |
touched | (adjective) having come into contact | - |
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(adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, moved, stirred |
(adjective) slightly insane | Synonyms: fey |
toucher | (noun) a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something | - |
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touchily | (adverb) in a touchy manner | - |
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touchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, tetchiness |
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touching | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, poignant |
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(noun) the act of putting two things together with no space between them | Synonyms: touch |
(noun) the event of something coming in contact with the body | Synonyms: touch |
touchingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, poignantly |
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touchline | (noun) either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby | - |
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touchscreen | (noun) a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen | Synonyms: touch screen |
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touchstone | (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, measure, standard |
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touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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(adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |
tough | (adjective) resistant to cutting or chewing | - |
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(adjective) physically toughened | Synonyms: toughened |
(adjective) not given to gentleness or sentimentality | - |
(adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: hard |
(adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: sturdy |
(adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | Synonyms: bad |
(adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: ruffianly |
(adjective) very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution | Synonyms: rugged |
(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical |
(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie |
(noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo |
(noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing | Synonyms: street fighter |
toughen | (verb) make tough or tougher | - |
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toughened | (adjective) physically toughened | Synonyms: tough |
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(adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: hardened, tempered, treated |
toughie | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, stumper |
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(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough |
toughly | (adverb) in a ruggedly tough manner | - |
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toughness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: huskiness, ruggedness |
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(noun) enduring strength and energy | Synonyms: stamina, staying power |
(noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: formidability |
(noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: temper |
toupe | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupee |
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toupee | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupe |
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toupeed | (adjective) wearing a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | - |
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tour | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: circuit |
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(noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, spell, turn |
(noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty |
(verb) make a tour of a certain place | - |
touraco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: turaco, turacou, turakoo |
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tourer | (noun) large open car seating four with folding top | Synonyms: phaeton, touring car |
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(noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourist |
tourism | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: touristry |
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tourist | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourer |
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touristed | (adjective) visited by throngs of tourists | Synonyms: touristy |
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touristry | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: tourism |
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touristy | (adjective) visited by throngs of tourists | Synonyms: touristed |
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tourmaline | (noun) a mineral that is a complex borosilicate and hydroxide of aluminum containing iron and magnesium and calcium and lithium and sodium; it is usually black but occurs in transparent colored forms that are used as gemstones | - |
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tournament | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tourney |
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(noun) a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize | - |
tournedos | (noun) thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin | - |
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tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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(verb) engage in a tourney | - |
tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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tourtiere | (noun) a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec | - |
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tousle | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tangle |
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tousled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled |
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tout | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: touter |
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(noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tipster |
(noun) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit | Synonyms: ticket tout |
(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
(verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
touter | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: tout |
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