torch
IPA: tˈɔrtʃ
noun
- A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.
- (Commonwealth) A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.
- (US) An arsonist.
- A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.
- (science fiction) A torch drive ("a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion").
verb
- To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).
- (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive ("a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion").
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Examples of "torch" in Sentences
- The man lighted the torch.
- The roof of the dome has a cylindrical torch.
- The wood is often used for torches and firewood.
- Torch relay and the lighting of the flame cauldron.
- The android Human Torch was found and joined the Wca.
- There it will meet a torch from the summit of Everest.
- Inside the flame of the torch, the year 1854 is visible.
- The book and the torch symbolize intelligence and wisdom.
- A hypodermic needle was originally used for the torch tip.
- As he did so, Toryn removed a torch from the wall and lit it.
- Windflower is destroyed by the flaming torches of the Islanders.
- The ceremony ended with the lighting of the torch on the Aspire Tower.
- The torch is passed on for one politician for the people to another politician for the people.
- Protesters in Paris attempted to take the olympic torch from a wheel chair bound amputee torch bearer.
- It seems to me that the "torch" is being handed off to Esser, and there really is, right now, no real competition.
- Collecting herself, she stretches slowly, pats Phillipa's head, takes her torch from the drawer and flicks the light switch for the driveway.
- Â The question now becomes, who will pick up the torch from the interim torchbearers, and which former Global Guardian will end up on the new roster?
- The torch is then passed to hammy ham ham-ham Val Kilmer, who has not one iota of consistency to his performance, which exists only for him to try and out-weird Brando.
- As the torch is passed news outlets should really consider if Ed Rendell, Terry McAuliffe and Harold Ford are really the people who should be on representing the Dem side in this presidential race.
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