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torch
1[ tawrch ]
noun
- a light to be carried in the hand, consisting of some combustible substance, as resinous wood, or of twisted flax or the like soaked with tallow or other flammable substance, ignited at the upper end.
- something considered as a source of illumination, enlightenment, guidance, etc.:
the torch of learning.
- any of various lamplike devices that produce a hot flame and are used for soldering, burning off paint, etc.
- Slang. an arsonist.
- Chiefly British. flashlight ( def 1 ).
verb (used without object)
- to burn or flare up like a torch.
verb (used with object)
- to subject to the flame or light of a torch, as in order to burn, sear, solder, or illuminate.
- Slang. to set fire to maliciously, especially in order to collect insurance.
torch
2[ tawrch ]
verb (used with object)
- Masonry. to point (the joints between roofing slates) with a mixture of lime and hair.
torch
/ 迟蓴藧迟蕛 /
noun
- a small portable electric lamp powered by one or more dry batteries US and Canadian wordflashlight
- a wooden or tow shaft dipped in wax or tallow and set alight
- anything regarded as a source of enlightenment, guidance, etc
the torch of evangelism
- any apparatus that burns with a hot flame for welding, brazing, or soldering
- carry a torch forto be in love with, esp unrequitedly
- put to the torchto set fire to; burn down
the looted monastery was put to the torch
verb
- slang.tr to set fire to, esp deliberately as an act of arson
Derived Forms
- 藞迟辞谤肠丑藢濒颈办别, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 迟辞谤肠丑顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 迟辞谤肠丑顎僱别蝉蝉 adjective
- 迟辞谤肠丑顎僱颈办别顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of torch1
Idioms and Phrases
- carry the / a torch for, Slang. to be in love with, especially to suffer from unrequited love for:
He still carries a torch for his ex-wife.
More idioms and phrases containing torch
see carry a torch ; pass the torch .Example Sentences
Passengers on the Barcelona metro had to walk to safety using the torches on their mobile phones when their trains became stuck in tunnels.
As the bus cleared the rise of a hill, it was stopped by a man standing in the road flashing a torch.
The institute was torched by a Nazi student mob, every book in its library burned in Opera Square.
Earlier this month conservationists warned that some of the UK's rarest wildlife is being "torched alive" and pushed closer to extinction after weeks of intense grass fires.
The torched properties in his Altadena town were a reminder of how the fire that devastated his community is connecting to his work.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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