torch
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- noun
- /tɔrtʃ/
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antorcha
- Drizzt lighted a torch and led the way into the gloom, Regis close on his heels.
- light a torch
- carry a torch
- pass the torch
The lawns on which the torches will burn will be yours.
- The lawns on which the torches will burn will be yours.
- And we're all going to get this torch across America.
- Then write and tell me why you brought along those torches and ladders.
- But a dungeon, though, that's like brick, steel torches.
- And, and one where one day where where held the torch by his wife's face and suddenly he went, I can see my wife.
- There was fire inside, like there was a torch lit inside of my chest.
- And he says it, it was, its body was gleaming like Topaz and it had torches, fire, red glowing eyes.
Examples
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Holding them over her head like a torch, she went past the cart into the cave.
Fiction book (1992) -
Illuminated by the light of his torch, Golic eyeballs a sign on the wall in front of him.
Fiction book (1992) -
And we're all going to get this torch across America.
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Captain, bring a torch, that she may see the better.
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I'm gonna get a torch.
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"Now, shall we get on with it?" She handed him the torch and stepped back.
Fiction book (1992) -
Bring me a torch!
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Regis saw him wince, then brought the torch into the open, casting light on the dreadful scene.
Fiction book (1992) -
Karo of Raeth lifted his torch and drove his heels into his mount's flanks.
Fiction book (1992) -
We used a torch to illuminate the dark path through the cave.
Synonyms
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A small battery lamp that you hold to make light
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A small portable light with a clear cover that you can carry or hang
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A small plastic tube that glows when you bend or break it
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A flaming torch people carry in parades at night
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A small light you hold that uses batteries
A small lamp that uses batteries and gives light you can carry
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A torch that makes a very hot flame to cut or join metal using oxygen and acetylene
How Bright
Surface Forms
Etymology
Torch originally meant a stick with cloth twisted at the end and set on fire, and the word comes from Latin torquere 'to twist'. That's why a torch was a hand-held fire used for light, and the old image of a burning stick helps explain the word today.