See touching on Wiktionary
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168:",
"text": "But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act by which something is touched."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Indian English"
],
"glosses": [
"A snack served with alcoholic drinks in an informal environment."
],
"links": [
[
"snack",
"snack"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(India, in the plural) A snack served with alcoholic drinks in an informal environment."
],
"tags": [
"India",
"in-plural"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtʌt͡ʃɪŋ/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-touching.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f8/En-us-touching.ogg/En-us-touching.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/En-us-touching.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌtʃɪŋ"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "lams",
"sense": "The act by which something is touched",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "لَمْس"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dokosvane",
"sense": "The act by which something is touched",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "докосване"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "The act by which something is touched",
"word": "dokunuş"
}
],
"word": "touching"
}
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