touchstone

See also: Touchstone

English

Etymology

touch +‎ stone

Noun

touchstone (plural touchstones)

1. A stone used to check the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them to leave a visible trace.
2. (figurative, by extension) A standard of comparison or evaluation.
   • South

     The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits.

Translations

stone used to test the quality of gold alloys

• Armenian: փորձաքար (hy) (pʻorjakʻar)
• Burmese: မှတ်ကျောက် (my) (hmatkyauk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試金石／试金石 (zh) (shìjīnshí), 试金石 (zh) (shìjīnshí)

• Dutch: toetssteen (nl) m
• Finnish: koetinkivi (fi)
• French: touchau (fr) m
• German: Prüfstein (de) m
• Hungarian: próbakő
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• Italian: pietra di paragone
• Japanese: 試金石 (しきんせき, shikin seki)
• Korean: 시금석 (sigeumseok)
• Polish: kamień probierczy m
• Portuguese: pedra de toque f
• Russian: проби́рный ка́мень m (probírnyj kámenʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: пробни камен m, probni kamen m
• Spanish: piedra de toque f, toque (es) m
• Swedish: probersten (sv) c, prövosten c

standard of comparison or evaluation

• Armenian: չափանիշ (hy) (čʻapʻaniš), փորձաքար (hy) (pʻorjakʻar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 試金石／试金石 (zh) (shìjīnshí), 试金石 (zh) (shìjīnshí)

• Dutch: maatstaf (nl) m, toetssteen (nl) m
• Finnish: koetinkivi (fi)
• French: pierre de touche (fr) f, 《l’exemple même de...》 m
• German: Prüfstein (de) m
• Hungarian: ismérv (hu), kritérium (hu)
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• Italian: pietra di paragone f
• Japanese: 試金石 (しきんせき, shikin seki)
• Korean: 기준 (ko) (gijun)
• Polish: probierz m
• Portuguese: pedra de toque f
• Spanish: norma (es) f
• Swedish: prövosten c

See also

• bellwether
• benchmark
• model
• norm
• exemplar
• standard

Anagrams

• touch-tones, touchtones