| torch | set on fire, ignite, set ablaze; intentionally light fires, set on fire maliciously | en | (fiil) | en |
| torch | piece of wood that is lit on fire to provide light, lamp; flashlight, small portable light powered by a battery; (Slang) arsonist, one who intentionally lights fires, one who maliciously burns property | en | (isim) | en |
| torch | a light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns | en | en |
| torch | A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame | en | en |
| torch | A torch is a small electric light which is powered by batteries and which you can carry in your hand | en | en |
| torch | 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 | en | en |
| torch | A torch is a device that produces a hot flame and is used for tasks such as cutting or joining pieces of metal. The gang worked for up to ten hours with acetylene torches to open the vault. see also blowtorch | en | en |
| torch | If someone torches a building or vehicle, they set fire to it deliberately. The rioters torched the local library | en | en |
| torch | If you say that someone is carrying a torch for someone else, you mean that they secretly admire them or love them. He has always carried a torch for Barbara | en | en |
| torch | If you say that someone is carrying the torch of a particular belief or movement, you mean that they are working hard to ensure that it is not forgotten and continues to grow stronger. This group aims to carry the torch for the millions who demonstrated and the thousands who died. to deliberately make a building, vehicle etc start to burn | en | en |
| torch | a light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance | en | en |
| torch | tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches | en | en |
| torch | a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | en | en |
| torch | a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | en | en |
| torch | burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns" | en | en |
| torch | A campaign item used from the mid 19th century to the very early 20th century in which a wick, saturated with oil from a small self-contained reservoir is ignited for illumination of a night-time parade | en | en |
| torch | For our purposes, I will ignore all but the liquid fueled "torches", as well as those lantern-like torches (known as "smudge pots" used as safety markers, etc "Torch" was used as the name of the type of light that commonly had a wall-hung fount shaped like a frying pan, with a long downwards tube with a 90 deg bend at the bottom leading to a burner that protruded abot 18 to 24" away from the wall For "home" use, these gravity feed lights burned either gasoline/petrol or kerosene/paraffin with an open flame, with no chimney or shade The same type of lamp was referred to in Australia as a "stall lantern", used to both heat and light outdoor stalls in markets, etc | en | en |
| torch | Operational code name for the Allied landings in North West Africa - November 1942 | en | en |
| torch | ignition and subsequent envelopment in flames, usually from bottom to top, of a tree or small group of trees | en | en |
| torch | A device used for fusing sprayed coatings; it mixes and controls the flow of gases | en | en |
| torch | British for "flashlight" - In scuba, it's an underwater battery powered light source | en | en |
| torch | An apparatus for mixing Oxy-fuels in controlled proportions for cutting and welding | en | en |
| torch | A device used in the TIG (GTAW) process to control the position of the electrode, to transfer current to the arc, and to direct the flow of the sheilding gas | en | en |
| torch | Nickname for Jimmy Martino, first baseman whose game-time smoking habits (not his stellar play) earned him the moniker "the Torch " | en | en |
n,v:torched / torches torching Etymology :Middle English torche, from Old French, bundle of twisted straw or tow, torch, from Vulgar Latin torca; akin to Latin torquEre to twist; more at TORTURE. Pronunciation :'torch. Function :noun. Date :14th century.
