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# touching

«touching» in Mova's school dictionary: **putting your hand or another part on something, or being…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb, -ing form of touch (touch, touches, touched, touching); adjective (touching); preposition (touching — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) As part of the verb, touching means putting your hand or another part on something, or being in contact: «Stop touching the paint». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#m1)

2) Touching (adjective) means making you feel sad or kind and warm inside: a touching story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#m2)

3) Two things that are touching have no space between them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In body safety, children learn about safe and unsafe touching: hugs you want are okay; no one should touch your private parts or make you keep touching a secret — tell a trusted adult; you can say no to touching you do not like. In science, the sense of touch uses skin; objects «touching» transfer heat. In maths, shapes touching share an edge or point. In stories, a touching moment shows love or kindness.

### examples

- Stop touching your sister's things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x1)
- Please don't touch — the paint is wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x2)
- Safe touching includes hugs you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x3)
- You can say no to touching you don't like. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x4)
- It was a touching story about a lost dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x5)
- The two circles are touching at one point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x6)
- No touching the exhibits in the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x7)
- The balloon burst when it was touching the heater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x8)
- ‘Yet what she says sounds very sad and touching.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/#x9)

### note

Double c-h: touch → touching. «Touched» can also mean moved emotionally: «I was touched by your card». «Touching» as an adjective is about feelings, not hands.

### In the corpora

- [You should always ask before touching someone's bump.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/9/)
- [A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/15/)
- [Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives without serious crime touching them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/3/)
- [Never touching the remote again is not the answer; knowing what to do next time is.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/58-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident/19/)
- [Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/21-elephants-the-trunk/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «touching» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touching/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.