torch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.”

2. isim A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.

   “The degradation of the [Olympic] torch worldwide—it had to be snuffed out more than once to protect it from protesters—even provoked angry Chinese students to mobilise "150 strong and energetic runners" to defend it in Australia, raising the spectre of violence.”

3. isim Ellipsis of electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”).

   “Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.”

4. isim A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
5. isim A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.

   “Of this kinde, there is founde an other, the Spikes, eares, or torches wherof, are very dubble, ſo as in euery Spyky eare, in ſteede of the little knappes or heades, it bringeth forth a number of other ſmal torches, wherof eche one is lyke to the ſpike or torch of great Plantayne.”

6. isim The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
7. isim A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
8. isim A source of enlightenment or guidance.

   “[T]he Scholars of our eyes, / Our Beaux from Gallantry vvould ſoon be vviſe; / VVould gladly light, their homage to improve, / The Lamp of Knovvledge at the Torch of Love!”

9. isim 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.
10. isim Ellipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
11. isim Ellipsis of blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
12. isim An arsonist.
13. fiil To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
14. fiil To intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).

    “Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.”

15. fiil To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.

    “That influencer torched the company’s PR department.”

16. fiil Of a fire: to burn.

    “The flames torched up twenty feet in the air.”

17. fiil To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
18. fiil To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
19. fiil To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
20. fiil To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.