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# touchstone

«touchstone» in Mova's school dictionary: **A dark stone that people once rubbed gold on to test…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (touchstones)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dark stone that people once rubbed gold on to test whether it was real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchstone/#m1)

2) Something you use as a standard to judge other things by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchstone/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a touchstone tests treasure; in lessons a rule or example used to check other work (old use for 1).

### examples

- The goldsmith rubbed the metal on the touchstone to test it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchstone/#x1)
- In the fairy tale the touchstone showed that the coins were fake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchstone/#x2)
- Her kind deeds were a touchstone for how we should behave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/touchstone/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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