torrent
To fall or flow in a torrentTo fall or flow in a torrent; to pour.
» Down came the rain in torrents.
Es regnete in Strömen. — Sudajaengi
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2 sensesTo fall or flow in a torrent; to pour.
(Internet, transitive)To download in a torrent.
The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
Examples
23 sentencesDown came the rain in torrents.
deEs regnete in Strömen. — Sudajaengi
Down come the rain in torrents.
It started to rain in torrents.
ruЛиванул дождь. — marafon
The cave was toward a torrent.
The rain came down in torrents.
ruДождь хлынул как из ведра. — Karok
deEs regnete in Strömen. — Sudajaengi
Origin
Borrowed from French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem, accusative of tBorrowed from French torrent, from Italian torrente, from Latin torrentem, accusative of torrēns (“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latin torrēre (“to parch, scorch”).
From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.
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Forms
torrents, torrenting, torrented, torrentedWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.