toque — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bunt verb In baseball, to deliberately tap the ball softly with the bat instead of swinging fully, so it stays hard to field.
- hint noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
- ring noun A small circular band, often worn on a finger as jewelry.
- streak noun A thin line or smear, often left by dirt, color, or motion.
- tap noun A fitting on a pipe or container that controls the flow of a liquid or gas.
- tinge noun A small trace of colour, or by extension, of any quality.
- touch verb To make physical contact with something using the hand, finger, or another part of the body.
- touchstone noun A dark stone once used to test the purity of gold or silver by rubbing the metal on it and examining the streak left behind.
Senses
toque is used for these senses in English:
- bunt (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
- bunt (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
- ring (colloquial) A telephone call.
- streak A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
- tinge A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
- tinge The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.
- touch The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- touch (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
bunt — full definition
- verb In baseball, to deliberately tap the ball softly with the bat instead of swinging fully, so it stays hard to field.
- verb To push or nudge with the head or horns, as an animal does.
hint — full definition
- noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
- noun A very small trace or amount of something.
- verb To suggest something indirectly, without saying it outright.