touched

«touched» in Mova's school dictionary: put a hand or part of the body on something, or came into… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, past form of touch (touch, touches, touched, touching); adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Touched means put a hand or part of the body on something, or came into contact with it. tree →

2) Touched (adjective) means feeling grateful and moved because someone was kind. tree →

3) Touched on means mentioned briefly. tree →

4) Touched (old-fashioned, informal) means a little crazy. tree →

sense in the lessons

In hygiene, think about what you have touched: wash hands after touching animals, raw meat, rubbish or the toilet. In body safety lessons, you have the right to say no to being touched in a way you don't like, and to tell a trusted adult. In stories, a character who is touched feels warmth because of a kind act. In maths geometry, lines or shapes that touch meet at a point. Phrases: touched by, deeply touched, touched down (landed), touched on.

examples

• I touched the snow and it was cold. tree →
• Wash your hands after you've touched the hamster. tree →
• I was touched by your kind card. tree →
• The plane touched down safely. tree →
• The teacher touched on fractions briefly. tree →
• Nobody should touch you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable. tree →
• The circle touched the line at one point. tree →
• He touched it and felt something hard within. tree →

note

Pronounced "tucht", one syllable. "Touched" (moved by kindness) is a nice feeling, not a sad one. In maths, a line that just touches a circle at one point is called a tangent.

In the corpora

• Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they pass quickly and leave people feeling warm.
• Porcupines cannot shoot their quills; the barbed quills come out easily when touched and stick into the attacker.
• A Venus flytrap shuts in a fraction of a second when two trigger hairs inside the trap are touched within about 20 seconds.
• Pull one thread and the whole web moves, like a spider's web when one strand is touched.
• A stick insect sways like a twig in the wind and drops to the floor stiff as a stick when touched.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «touched» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.