torch

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
5. A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
6. The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
7. (obsolete) A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
8. A source of enlightenment or guidance.
9. In carry, hand on, or pass on the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
10. Short for torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
11. Short for blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
12. (slang) An arsonist.

Verb

1. To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun sense 1).
2. (slang) To set fire to (something), especially by use of a torch; specifically, to intentionally destroy (something) by setting on fire to try and claim compensation on a fire insurance.
3. To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
4. Of a fire: to burn.
5. To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
6. To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
7. To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.

Verb

To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.

Sinonimi

flashlight

🔦

lamp

light

flambeau

lantern

🏮

flare

brand

flame

link

🔗

fire-brand

common mullein

blowlamp

flannel mullein

woolly mullein

great mullein

blowtorch

Aaron’s rod

burn

small lamp

destroy by fire

torchlight

scorch

candle

🕯️

firebrand

Verbascum thapsus

set afire

cresset

faggot

fan

fir

fire

🔥

flashing

flower

🌸

fritter away

funk

gage

gangster

gash

gas lamp

gauge

Ghana

🇬🇭

glass

globe

grass

grata

greeter

greta

has

hay

headlight

headlights

hemp

herb

🌿

homegrown

hooch

ignite

kali

kilter

kind

lamplight

lens

light bulb

lighter

limbo

loaf

lobo

loco

locoweed

Lucas

machinery

macon

Mary

mother

👩‍🍼

mullein

parch

pat

pharos

pin

pitch pine

pocket lamp

pod

poke

pot

punk

put out

red cross

reefer

retire

root

rope

🪢

scissors

✂️

sear

seeds

sen

set on fire

shake

skunk

🦨

smoke

spotlight

stack

stems

sting

strike out

supergrass

tag

thirteen

thumb

urticate

wheat

churus

coli

flash lamp

flash light

Indian hemp

lima

Mary Ann

Mary Jane

Meg

mota

sess

set fire to

stink weed

red dirt

salt and pepper

endo

yerba

griff

Rose Marie

night ornament

gange

dagga

djamba

grefa

grifa

Kentucky blue

blue sage

crazy weed

flannel leaf

green goddess

velvet plant

burning brand

kaya

fine stuff

gas torch

fu

🖕

moto

herba

m.o.

yeh

firestick

cheeba

Juanita

brun down

handlamp

doobie

moocah

cochornis

Chicago green

Colorado cocktail

pocket rocket

muggles

love weed

viper's weed

chira

llesca

marley

dona Juana

gauge butt

aunt Mary

African bush

giggle smoke

Columbus black

drag weed

white-haired lady

esra

yellow submarine

jive stick

Pakistani black

lubage

mor a grifa

mooca

bullyon

don Jem

giggle weed

snop

duby

cosa

messorole

dawamesk

Texas tea

frajo

jay smoke

kiff

grass brownies

mooster

mutah

righteous bush

flower tops

gunja

Wacky terbacky

laughing grass

potten bush

killer weed

gunga

pretendo

durog

coliflor tostao

yesco

kgb

mutha

pretendica

sezz

fraho

sasfras

kumba

griffa

Mary weaver

dubbe

laughing weed

bo-bo

hanhich

zambi

pakalolo

sweet Lucy

rasta weed

mohasky

m.u.

Mary Jonas

wacky weed

bammy

queen Ann's lace

modams

canamo

draf weed

splim

Panama gold

Meggie

cheeo

dry high

Acapulco red

magic smoke

baby bhang

gunney

Panama cut

p.r.

smoke Canada

diambista

butter flower

African black

yesca

dinkie dow

manhattan silver

joy smoke

lakbay diva

vipe

canappa

Mary and Johnny

cavite all star

Indian boy

mootie

crying weed

cannabis tea

takkouri

rainy day woman

o.j.

burnie

muggie

Mexican red

griffo

moota

mootos

blowing smoke

siddi

lamb's bread

good giggles

bobo bush

black bart

black gunion

funny staff

railroad weed

m.j.

bambalacha

ghanja

tex-mex

gungun

taima

doradilla

Mary Warner

yen pop

Texas pot

dona Juanita

chillums

Canadian black

duros

sugar weed

griefo

santa Marta

gold star

weed tea

sinse

light stuff

jolly green

Columbian

carmabis

airplane

✈️

ashes

baby

👶

bake

bale

bar

bash

beacon

block

blonde

boo

boom

💥

broccoli

🥦

bud

burn off

burn up

burrito

🌯

cauterise

cauterize

charge

chimney

crotch

deflagrate

dew

ding

ditch

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tɔːtʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

The noun is derived from Middle English torch, torche (“large candle; lighted stick; (figurative) sunbeam”), from Old French torche, torque (“torch; bundle of (twisted) straw”) (modern French torche); further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *torca (“coiled object”) (referring to a torch made from twisted plant fibres dipped in a flammable substance such as pitch), from Latin torqua, a variant of torquis (“collar of twisted metal, torque; wreath”), from torqueō (“to twist, wind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
Sense 2.3 (Verbascum thapsus) is either due to the plant’s spike of yellow flowers, or because its leaves and stalks were used to make torches (noun sense 1). Sense 3.2 (“precious cause, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others”) is derived from Latin lampada trādere, from Ancient Greek λᾰμπᾰ́δᾰ πᾰρᾰδιδόναι (lampáda paradidónai, “to hand over the torch”), a reference to the torch race held at various festivals such as the Panathenaic Games in Ancient Greece, which involved a relay where a torch was passed from one runner to another.
The verb is derived from the noun.