torch
A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable…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.
» Tom was carrying a torch.
Tom hatte eine Taschenlampe in der Hand.
Tom trug eine Fackel.
Том ніс факел.
Том ніс ліхтарик.
Meaning
9 sensesA 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.
The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.
Fackel
фа́келfákel, све́точsvétoč
смолоски́пsmoloskýp, фа́келfákel
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.
(broadly)A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
(broadly)A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
(broadly)A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
(broadly, in the plural)The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
(figuratively)A source of enlightenment or guidance.
(figuratively)In carry, hand on, pass on, take up the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
(US, slang)An arsonist.
(broadly, obsolete)A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
- a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
- a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
- tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
Examples
113 sentencesTom was carrying a torch.
Том ніс факел.
deTom hatte eine Taschenlampe in der Hand.
Tom is carrying a torch.
Tom forgot to bring a torch.
Том забув взяти ліхтарик.
Take the torch—that we'll definitely need.
Візьми ліхтарик, він нам обов'язково стане в пригоді.
deNimm die Taschenlampe. Die werden wir auf jeden Fall brauchen.
Go find a torch in the attic.
Йди знайди ліхтарик на горищі.
Translations
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Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English torch, torche (“large candle; lighted stick; (figuThe noun is derived from Middle English torch, torche (“large candle; lighted stick; (figurative) sunbeam”), from Old French torche, torque (“torch; bundle of (twisted) straw”) (modern French torche); further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *torca (“coiled object”) (referring to a torch made from twisted plant fibres dipped in a flammable substance such as pitch), from Latin torqua, a variant of torquis (“collar of twisted metal, torque; wreath”), from torqueō (“to twist, wind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
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Forms
plural: torchesSynonyms
12 synonyms- a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame:blowtorchblowlamp
- a small portable battery-powered electric lamp:flashlight
- tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches:common mulleingreat mulleinAaron-ap-s rodflannel mulleinwoolly mulleinVerbascum thapsus