"touch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

touch verbo

touch + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 91
touch base • touch one's arm • touch one's hand • touch one's shoulder • touch one's face • touch one's cheek • touch one's lips • ...
verbo + touch
Kolokacji: 19
allowed to touch • want to touch • try to touch • avoid touching • seem to touch • ...
touch + preposición
Kolokacji: 48
touch down • touch upon • touch off • touch up • touched by • ...
touch + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 52
barely touch • lightly touch • gently touch • actually touch • hardly touch • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(1) barely, hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
(2) lightly, gently, softly
Kolokacji: 3
(4) deeply, profoundly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) directly, indirectly, easily
Kolokacji: 3
1. directly touch = bezpośrednio dotknięcie directly touch
2. easily touch = łatwo dotknięcie easily touch
3. indirectly touch = okrężną drogą dotknięcie indirectly touch
  • The effects of the Cultural Revolution directly or indirectly touched essentially all of China's population.
  • For many, the hopes touch directly or indirectly on their own lives and work.
  • But there is a far more important reason, indirectly touched on in "Give Campaign Reform a Chance" (editorial, July 6).
  • The Grove is a dedicated space and place in the national landscape where the millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember.
  • Some of the terms of the existing agreements indirectly touch on the quality of working life.
  • And he did so, not only for those of us whose lives he touched directly, but also for the millions whom he touched indirectly.
  • Nevertheless, although social issues are briefly or indirectly touched upon, the definite central theme of the novel is love.
  • If one considers the commitments of various members of Labour's Front Bench whose portfolios touch directly or indirectly on energy, one finds total conflict, one with the other.
  • The poll found that the number of Americans touched directly or indirectly by a lack of health insurance was much larger than commonly assumed.
  • My guess is that Mr. Kushner, like Peter, will indirectly touch a raw nerve - a 9/11 nerve - and that his audience will soon be hungry for more.
(8) merely, simply
Kolokacji: 2
(9) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(10) inappropriately, improperly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) oddly, strangely
Kolokacji: 2

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