What is the meaning of Torch?
A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
In full electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”)
- A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
- A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
- The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
- A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
- A source of enlightenment or guidance.
- In carry, hand on, or pass on the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
A source of enlightenment or guidance.
In carry, hand on, or pass on the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
Short for torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
Short for blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
An arsonist.
- To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun sense 1).
- To set fire to (something), especially by use of a torch; specifically, to intentionally destroy (something) by setting on fire to try and claim compensation on a fire insurance.
To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun sense 1).
To set fire to (something), especially by use of a torch; specifically, to intentionally destroy (something) by setting on fire to try and claim compensation on a fire insurance.
To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
- Of a fire: to burn.
Of a fire: to burn.
To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.
Alternative form of torche
torque (tightly braided collar)
Source: wiktionary.org
- Of a fire: to burn.
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