Partake
Part of speech: verb
Definition: (formal) To take part in an activity; to participate To share (of)
Touch
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.A distinguishing feature or characteristic.A little bit; a small amount.The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.A relationship of close communication or understanding.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: Primarily physical senses.# To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.#: I touched her face softly.# To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.#: Sitting on the bench, the hem of her skirt touched the ground.# To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.#: They stood next to each other, their shoulders touching.# To make physical contact with a thing.#: Please can I have a look, if I promise not to touch?# To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.#: If you touch her, I'll kill you.# To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.#: Frankly, this wood's so strong that sandpaper won't touch it.# To consume, or otherwise use.#: Are you all right? You've hardly touched your lunch.# Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).#* 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:#*: Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko, and its commander--from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for a sea captain--this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a pretty young princess just turned of ten.# To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.#: Her parents had caught her touching herself when she was fifteen.Primarily non-physical senses.# To imbue or endow with a specific quality.#: My grandfather, as many people know, was touched with greatness.# To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.#* 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.vii:#*: Next to sorrow still I may annex such accidents as procure fear; for besides those terrors which I have before touched, [...] there is a superstitious fear [...] which much trouble many of us.# To concern, to have a bearing on.#: Stay out of this, it doesn't touch you in any way.# To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.#: Stefan was touched by the song's message of hope.# To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.#: He had been drinking over lunch, and was clearly touched.# To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.#: The bill was finally touched after many hours of deliberation.# To steal, or obtain money; to borrow money from.#: I was running short, so I touched old Bertie for a fiver.# To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane.#: You must be touched if you think I'm taking your advice.# To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.#* 1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in Lord Peter Views the Body,#*: There was his mistress, Maria Morano. I don't think I've ever seen anything to touch her, and when you work for the screen [as I do] you're apt to have a pretty exacting standard of female beauty.
Example sentence: There is no great genius without some touch of madness.