different between touching vs junction

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?t???/
• Rhymes: -?t???
• Hyphenation: touch?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch +? -ing.

Verb

touching

1. present participle of touch

Adjective

touching (comparative more touching, superlative most touching)

1. Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.

   a touching story

Synonyms

• emotional, moving, sad

Translations

Preposition

touching

1. Regarding; concerning.

   • Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge.

Synonyms

• about, apropos, as for; See also Thesaurus:about

Etymology 2

From Middle English touching, touchinge, touchynge, equivalent to touch +? -ing.

Noun

touching (plural touchings)

1. The act by which something is touched.
2. (India, in the plural) A snack served with alcoholic drinks in an informal environment.

Translations

Anagrams

• ungothic

English

Etymology

From Latin i?ncti? (“union, joining, uniting”), from iung? (“join, attach together”). Equivalent to join +? -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k??n/
• Rhymes: -??k??n

Noun

junction (plural junctions)

1. The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
2. A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
3. The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
4. (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
5. (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
6. (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
   • 2007, Gary Hudson, Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook (page 336)

     Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
7. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
8. (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.

Synonyms

• (place where two things meet): intersection

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ???? (jô??ôn)
• ? Japanese: ???????

Translations

See also

• crossroad
• intersection

Verb

junction (third-person singular simple present junctions, present participle junctioning, simple past and past participle junctioned)

1. (of roads or tracks) To form a junction.