torch

IPA: tˈɔrtʃ

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").

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").

Examples of "torch" in Sentences

There it will meet a torch from the summit of Everest.
As he did so, Toryn removed a torch from the wall and lit it.
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.