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touchstone

/ˈtʌʧstəʊn/

/ˈtʌtʃstoʊn/

Translations

touchstonenoun

touchstones

/ˈtʌʧstəʊn/

/ˈtʌtʃstoʊn/

The new software became the touchstone for all future developments.

Новое программное обеспечение стало эталоном для всех будущих разработок.

Honesty is the touchstone of a good relationship.

Честность — это критерий хороших отношений.

Additional translations

камень для испытания золота

Synonyms

touchstoneadjective

/ˈtʌtʃstəʊn/

/ˈtʌtʃstoʊn/

Used attributively before nouns to mean ‘serving as a test or standard’.

touchstonenoun

A standard or criterion by which something is judged or recognized.

The novel became a touchstone for modern American literature.

A piece of fine-grained dark schist or jasper formerly used for testing alloys of gold by observing the color of the mark that they made on it.

The jeweler used a touchstone to determine the purity of the gold.

touchstoneadjective

Serving as a test, standard, or benchmark for judging something.

The court issued a touchstone decision that shaped future legislation.