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| Main Entry: |
bear on
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | concern |
| Synonyms: | affect, appertain to, apply, bear upon, belong to, involve, pertain to, refer to, relate to, touch upon |
| Antonyms: | be immaterial, be irrelevant, be of no consequence |
| Main Entry: | concern |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | affect personally |
| Synonyms: | apply to, be relevant to, bear on, become involved, bother, disquiet, distress, disturb, interest, involve, make anxious, make uneasy, pertain to, perturb, regard, take pains, touch, trouble, worry |
| Main Entry: | concern |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relate to, have reference to |
| Synonyms: | answer to, appertain to, apply to, be about, be applicable to, be connected with, be dependent upon, be interdependent with, be pertinent to, be well taken, bear on, bear upon, belong to, deal with, depend upon, have a bearing on, have connections with, have implications for, have relation to, have significance for, have to do with, involve, pertain to, refer to, regard |
| Antonyms: | unconcern |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, angle toward |
| Synonyms: | be off, be slanted, bear on, beetle, bow, cant, careen, cock, curve, decline, deflect, dip, divert, drift, droop, fasten on, hang on, heel, incline, jut, list, nod, overhang, pitch, place, prop, put weight on, recline, repose, rest, rest on, roll, sag, sheer, sink, slant, slope, tilt, tip, turn, twist, veer |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | pertain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be relevant to |
| Synonyms: | affect, appertain, apply, associate, be appropriate, be part of, be pertinent, bear on, befit, belong, combine, concern, connect, inhere with, join, refer, regard, relate, touch, vest |
| Main Entry: | sit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rest on one's behind |
| Synonyms: | be seated, bear on, cover, ensconce, give feet a rest, grab a chair, have a place, have a seat, hunker, install, lie, park*, perch*, plop down, pose, posture, put it there, relax, remain, rest, seat, seat oneself, settle, squat, take a load off, take a place, take a seat |
| Notes: | to set is to place something; to sit is to be seated |
| Antonyms: | stand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | have to do with; regard |
| Synonyms: | affect, be a party to, be associated with, bear on, bear upon, belong to, center upon, concern, concern oneself with, consume, deal with, drink, eat, get involved in, handle, interest, involve, partake of, pertain to, refer to, use, utilize |
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| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
attingent, close to, contactual, conterminous, contiguous, end to end, hand to hand, haptic, in contact, intractible, itching, lambent, libant, osculatory, palpable, pertingent, tactile, tactual, tangential, tangible, touching, with no interval
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| Concept: | [Sensation of pressure] Touch. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; touch |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
touch; tact, taction, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation; manipulation; massage., [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus.
-verbs
touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.
-adjectives
tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent. [more]
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