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
Operational code name for the Allied landings in North West Africa - November 1942
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
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
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
a light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns
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
tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
An apparatus for mixing Oxy-fuels in controlled proportions for cutting and welding
{i} 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
şalome
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şa·lo·me
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() Related to the Hebrew word shalom and the male given name Solomon, both meaning "peace".