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  • 41Touchstone (groupe) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Touchstone. Touchstone est un groupe de rock progressif britannique créé en 2003 autour du claviériste Rob Cottingham et du guitariste Adam Hodgson. Ils ne sortent leur premier album qu’en 2007 et ont depuis… …

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  • 42Touchstone Energy 300 — Aaron’s 312 Veranstaltungsort: Talladega Superspeedway Hauptsponsor: Aaron’s Erstes Rennen: 1992 Distanz: 311,22 Meilen (500,88 km) Anzahl Runden: 117 Ehemalige Namen: Fram Filter 500K (1992–1994) Humminbird Fishfinder 500K (1995–1996) Birmingham …

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  • 43touchstone — noun a) A stone used to test the quality of gold alloys. b) A standard of comparison or evaluation …

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  • 44touchstone — Synonyms and related words: acid test, assay, barometer, benchmark, blank determination, brouillon, canon, check, criterion, crucial test, crucible, degree, demonstration, determination, docimasy, essay, feeling out, first draft, gauge, graduated …

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  • 45touchstone — n. yardstick, criterion …

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  • 46touchstone — 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 …

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  • 47touchstone — n. 1. Basanite, black jasper, Lydian stone. 2. Test, criterion, proof, ordeal, assay, touch …

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  • 48touchstone — n 1. norm, standard, criterion; measure, gauge, scale, yardstick; reference point, point of reference, bench mark; acid test, proof, test, try out, trial, Obs. assay; guideline, rule of thumb, guide, Eccles. formulary. 2. ideal, exemplar, example …

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  • 49touchstone — [ˈtʌtʃˌstəʊn] noun [C] a standard that is used for testing or judging other things …

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  • 50touchstone — touch•stone [[t]ˈtʌtʃˌstoʊn[/t]] n. 1) a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing 2) mel a black stone once used to test gold and silver by rubbing them on it • Etymology: 1475–85 …

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