torch

Определение torch в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: To set fire to, especially using a torch (1) above
Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.; A portable source of electric light
Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.; A stick with a flame on one end used as a light source
The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire's castle.; A torch is a small electric light which is powered by batteries and which you can carry in your hand; {n} a large waxlight, flambeau, link, staff; burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns"; a light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance; 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 burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame; 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; a small portable battery-powered electric lamp; A device used for fusing sprayed coatings; it mixes and controls the flow of gases; If someone torches a building or vehicle, they set fire to it deliberately. The rioters torched the local library; Nickname for Jimmy Martino, first baseman whose game-time smoking habits (not his stellar play) earned him the moniker "the Torch "; {f} set on fire, ignite, set ablaze; intentionally light fires, set on fire maliciously; A device used in the TIG (GTAW) process to control the position of the electrode, to transfer current to the arc, and to direct the flow of the sheilding gas; A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame; British for "flashlight" - In scuba, it's an underwater battery powered light source; ignition and subsequent envelopment in flames, usually from bottom to top, of a tree or small group of trees; A campaign item used from the mid 19th century to the very early 20th century in which a wick, saturated with oil from a small self-contained reservoir is ignited for illumination of a night-time parade
torch runner: one who collects used torches for a bonfire society on bonfire night
torch runner: A torchbearer, as in the Olympics
torch runners: plural form of torch runner
torch singer: a singer of torch songs; most often a woman
torch song: a song, often sentimental, lamenting an unrequited love; normally sung by a woman
torch race: (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner to the next
torch race: A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece
torch singer: a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs
torch song: a popular song concerned with disappointment in love
torch song: {i} sad or sentimental song of disappointment or unhappiness in love
torch song: A torch song is a sentimental popular song about love, usually sung by a woman. A sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited love.torch singer n. a sad song about love singer
acetylene torch: An oxyacetylene torch
carry a torch for: To love or to be romantically infatuated with, especially when such feelings are not reciprocated
Lachey, for his part, seems to still carry a torch for his estranged wife.
carrying a torch for: Present participle of carry a torch for
hold a torch for: Alternative form of carry a torch for
oxyacetylene torch: A torch that burns acetylene with a pure oxygen source to produce the flame
A torch: tead
A torch: teade
Olympic Torch: {i} Olympic Flame, torch that is symbol of the Olympic Games which burns throughout the celebration of the Olympic games and is extinguished at end of the closing ceremony (lit to commemorate the fire that was stolen from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus)
blow torch: torch that shoots out a hot flame
carry a torch: {f} feel love for someone who doesn't reciprocate, feel an aching love which is not reciprocated; be in love with someone without reciprocation; be romantically interested in a person; carry on a cause
carry a torch for: {f} feel love for someone who doesn't reciprocate, feel an aching love which is not reciprocated; be in love with someone without reciprocation; be romantically interested in a person; carry on a cause
carry the torch: {f} feel an aching love which is not reciprocated; be in love with someone without reciprocation; be romantically interested in a person; carry on a cause
carry the torch for: be in love with (generally without having the affection returned)
cutting torch: blowtorch whose flame is used for cutting metals
electric torch: flashlight
oxyacetylene torch: a blowtorch that burns oxyacetylene
soldering torch: torch used to attach metal parts by heating them
torched: Simple past and past participle of torch
torches: third-person singular of torch
torches: plural of torch
torching: The ignition and flare-up of a tree or small group of trees, usually from bottom to top
torching: The burning of fuel at the end of the exhaust pipe or stacks of an aircraft engine due to excessive richness of the fuel/air mixture
torching: The burning of the foliage of a single tree or a small group of trees from the bottom up
torching: Fire burning principally as a surface fire that intermittently ignites the crowns of trees or shrubs as it advances
torching: present participle of torch
water torch: The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil
welding torch: torch used to heat an fuse metal together

torch

Турецкое произношение

tôrç

Синонимы

brand, flashlight, burn, firebomb, ignite, inflame, set, ablaze

Произношение

/ˈtôrʧ/ /ˈtɔːrʧ/

Этимология

[ 'torch ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English torche, from Old French, bundle of twisted straw or tow, torch, from Vulgar Latin torca; akin to Latin torquEre to twist; more at TORTURE.