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 →

2) Something you use as a standard to judge other things by. tree →

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 →
• In the fairy tale the touchstone showed that the coins were fake. tree →
• Her kind deeds were a touchstone for how we should behave. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

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