touche — meaning in English
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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
touche 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
- noun A small disc sewn onto clothing and pushed through a hole to fasten it.
- noun A small device pressed with a finger to operate a machine, switch, or on-screen control.
- noun A small pin-on badge worn on clothing.
- verb To fasten with buttons.
catch — full definition
- verb To capture or seize something moving, such as a ball or a fleeing person.
- verb To become infected with an illness.
- verb To notice, understand, or hear something.
- noun A hidden difficulty or drawback in an otherwise appealing deal or plan.
- noun Something captured, especially fish.