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- DictionaryTorch/tôrCH/
noun
- 1. a portable means of illumination such as a piece of wood or cloth soaked in tallow or an oil lamp on a pole, sometimes carried ceremonially. historical
- 2. a portable battery-operated electric lamp; a flashlight. British
verb
- 1. set fire to: informal "the shops had been looted and torched"
The meaning of TORCH is a burning stick of resinous wood or twist of tow used to give light and usually carried in the hand : flambeau. How to use torch in a sentence.
TORCH definition: 1. a small light that is held in the hand and usually gets its power from batteries: 2. a thick…. Learn more.
TORCH meaning: 1. a small light that is held in the hand and usually gets its power from batteries: 2. a thick…. Learn more.
Torch definition: 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.. See examples of TORCH used in a sentence.
A torch is a handheld light. Although flashlights are sometimes called "torches," technically a torch has a burning flame. Torch can also be used as a verb indicating that something has been purposely set on fire.
1. (Electronics) a small portable electric lamp powered by one or more dry batteries. US and Canadian word: flashlight. 2. a wooden or tow shaft dipped in wax or tallow and set alight. 3. anything regarded as a source of enlightenment, guidance, etc: the torch of evangelism.
A torch is a long stick with burning material at one end, used to provide light or to set things on fire. They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch. ...a torch-lit march for peace.
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.
A torch is a long stick with burning material at one end, used to provide light or to set things on fire. The shepherd followed, carrying a torch to light his way. Synonyms: firebrand, brand, taper, flaming stick More Synonyms of torch. 2. countable noun.
a small electric light that you hold in your hand. torch noun [C] (STICK) a long stick with material that burns tied to the top of it. torch. verb [ T ] informal uk / tɔːtʃ / us. to destroy something by burning it: A number of houses were torched. (Definition of torch from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
