Torch can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| torch - burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns" | ||
Noun |
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| torch - a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance | ||
| torch - a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | ||
| torch - a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | ||
| torch - tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches |
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| 1. | noun | I have melted small amounts of bronze in a crucible with a large propane torch (much larger than the plumbers torch, but it can be run of those propane cylinders you can buy for a gas grill). | |
| 2. | noun | She shone her torch onto the floor before us. | |
| 3. | noun | Rick and Carol broke up two months ago, but he's still carrying a torch for her. | |
| 4. | noun | Stan has always carried a torch for Liz. | |
| 5. | noun | Miyoko carried a torch so long, I think it gave her heartburn. | |
| 6. | noun | It was identified by telescope as a torch. | |
| 7. | noun | The torch does not light its own stand. | |
| 8. | noun | It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. | |
| 9. | noun | The sun is the torch, the lamp of the universe; if it is situated in the central region it's because this is the best place to illuminate the planets. | |
| 10. | noun | Tom is using the blow torch. | |
| 11. | noun | Tom extinguished his torch. | |
| 12. | noun | He had lit the torch before he entered the cave. | |
| 13. | noun | Tom's torch died on him before he could get out of the cave. | |
| 14. | noun | They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's. But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last. | |
| 15. | noun | A few steps behind them came another group of people, illumined by a torch. |
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| I have melted small amounts of bronze in a crucible with a large propane torch (much larger than the plumbers torch, but it can be run of those propane cylinders you can buy for a gas grill). |
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| She shone her torch onto the floor before us. | |
| Rick and Carol broke up two months ago, but he's still carrying a torch for her. | |
| Stan has always carried a torch for Liz. | |
| Miyoko carried a torch so long, I think it gave her heartburn. | |
| It was identified by telescope as a torch. | |
| The torch does not light its own stand. | |
| It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. | |
| The sun is the torch, the lamp of the universe; if it is situated in the central region it's because this is the best place to illuminate the planets. | |
| Tom is using the blow torch. | |
| Tom extinguished his torch. | |
| He had lit the torch before he entered the cave. | |
| Tom's torch died on him before he could get out of the cave. | |
| They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's. But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last. | |
| A few steps behind them came another group of people, illumined by a torch. | |