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 →

2) Touching (adjective) means making you feel sad or kind and warm inside: a touching story. tree →

3) Two things that are touching have no space between them. tree →

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 →
• Please don't touch — the paint is wet. tree →
• Safe touching includes hugs you want. tree →
• You can say no to touching you don't like. tree →
• It was a touching story about a lost dog. tree →
• The two circles are touching at one point. tree →
• No touching the exhibits in the museum. tree →
• The balloon burst when it was touching the heater. tree →
• ‘Yet what she says sounds very sad and touching.’ tree →

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.
• A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it.
• Crime is on the news a lot, but most people live their whole lives without serious crime touching them.
• Never touching the remote again is not the answer; knowing what to do next time is.
• Elephants greet and comfort each other by touching faces and twisting their trunks together.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «touching» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.