touché — meaning in English

English meaning

• button noun A small disc sewn onto clothing and pushed through a hole to fasten it.
• catch verb To capture or seize something moving, such as a ball or a fleeing person.
• key noun A shaped piece of metal used to open or lock a particular lock.
• tinge noun A small trace of colour, or by extension, of any quality.
• touchdown noun In American football, a scoring play worth six points, made by getting the ball into the opponent's end zone.
• touché interjection Said to acknowledge that someone has made a good point against you, or scored a hit in an argument.

Senses

touché is used for these senses in English:

• button A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
• catch (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
• fingerboard (music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
• key (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
• key In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
• key (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
• tinge A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
• touchdown (American football, Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.

button — full definition

1. noun A small disc sewn onto clothing and pushed through a hole to fasten it.
2. noun A small device pressed with a finger to operate a machine, switch, or on-screen control.
3. noun A small pin-on badge worn on clothing.
4. verb To fasten with buttons.

catch — full definition

1. verb To capture or seize something moving, such as a ball or a fleeing person.
2. verb To become infected with an illness.
3. verb To notice, understand, or hear something.
4. noun A hidden difficulty or drawback in an otherwise appealing deal or plan.
5. noun Something captured, especially fish.

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