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1Touchstone — Pictures (engl. touchstone = „Prüfstein”), auch bekannt als Touchstone Films, ist eine US amerikanische Filmproduktionsfirma mit Firmensitz in Burbank, Kalifornien, die zur Walt Disney Company gehört. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Firmengeschichte 2… …
2Touchstone — Touch stone , n. 1. (Min.) Lydian stone; basanite; so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See {Basanite}. [1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Any test or… …
3TouchStone — is a 1980s rock band out of Vienna, Austria. The group was made up of founding member and singer/song writer Dain Turner, guitarist Hossein Yasery Manesh, keyboardist Christian Skokan, bassist Günter Kopler, and drummer Alfred Vollbauer. In 1982… …
4touchstone — index standard Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
5touchstone — (n.) late 15c., from TOUCH (Cf. touch) (v.) + STONE (Cf. stone) (n.). Black quartz, used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the color of the streak made by rubbing them on it. Cf. also BASALT (Cf. basalt). Figurative sense is… …
6touchstone — *criterion, *standard, gauge, yardstick Analogous words: test, proof, trial, demonstration (see under PROVE) …
7touchstone — ► NOUN 1) a piece of fine grained dark schist or jasper formerly used for testing alloys of gold by observing the colour of the mark which they made on it. 2) a standard or criterion …
8touchstone — [tuch′stōn΄] n. 1. a type of black stone formerly used to test the purity of gold or silver by the streak left on it when it was rubbed with the metal 2. any test of genuineness or value …
9Touchstone — A touchstone is a small tablet of dark stone such as fieldstone, slate, or lydite, used for assaying precious metal alloys. It has a finely grained surface on which soft metals leave a visible trace.Probing with a touchstoneBy rubbing a metal on… …
10touchstone — /tuch stohn /, n. 1. a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing. 2. a black siliceous stone formerly used to test the purity of gold and silver by the color of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal. [1475 85; TOUCH +… …
