Definition of Touch base

1. Verb. Establish communication with someone. "Did you finally connect with your long-lost cousin?"

Exact synonyms: Connect, Get In Touch
Generic synonyms: Interact
Related verbs: Connect
Derivative terms: Connection, Connexion

Definition of Touch base

1. Verb. (baseball) To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic colloquial US Canada usually with "with") ''(derived from the baseball term)'' To consult, visit, or communicate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Touch Base

touch-screen
touch-screens
touch-tone
touch-tone dialing
touch-tone dialling
touch-type
touch-typed
touch-types
touch-typing
touch-typist
touch-up
touch a chord
touch a nerve
touch a raw nerve
touch and go
touch base
touch bases
touch cell
touch cloth
touch corpuscle
touch down
touch football
touch hole
touch holes
touch labor
touch modality
touch move
touch of the tar brush
touch of the tarbrush
touch off

Literary usage of Touch base

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Migration and the Labour Market in Asia: Recent Trends and Policies by Nihon Rōdō Kyōkai, Japan Institute of Labour (2003)
"Before October, 1980, while immigration control was maintained between the border of China and Hong Kong, a "touch-base" policy was adopted, which allowed ..."

2. International Migration in Asia: Trends and Policies by Oecd (2001)
"Prior to October 1980, while immigration control was maintained between mainland China and Hong Kong, a ''touch-base" policy was in place, whereby illegal ..."

3. Athletic Games in the Education of Women by Gertrude Dudley, Frances Kellor (1909)
"... if they hold the ball in one hand and touch them with the other or their feet; if they catch the ball and touch base before the runner gets there, ..."

4. Scientific Baseball by John Joseph McGraw (1913)
"... or touch base runner out with it; but if base runner, in a- tempting to reach a base, detach it from its fastening before being touched or forced out, ..."

5. Child Training: A System of Education for the Child Under School Age by Virgil Mores Hillyer (1915)
"He then searches for them, and they try to run in and touch base before he spies them out, saying " I spy " and touches base. The first one caught becomes ..."

6. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical by Gloria S. Merker (2000)
"Right leg folded under, but knee does not touch base. Left lower leg stretched to corner of base; hand rests on ..."

7. Okay, Girls by Helen Gilbert (2006)
"I felt I just had to touch base with the family. Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Naval Air Station is a large base located on the Gulf of Mexico. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Touch base on Dictionary.com!Search for Touch base on Thesaurus.com!Search for Touch base on Google!Search for Touch base on Wikipedia!

Search