Definitions from Wiktionary (torch)
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (by extension) A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
▸ noun: (by extension, Commonwealth) In full electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”)
▸ noun: (by extension, botany)
▸ noun: A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
▸ noun: A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
▸ noun: (chiefly in the plural) The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
▸ noun: (obsolete) A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
▸ noun: (figurative)
▸ noun: A source of enlightenment or guidance.
▸ noun: In carry, hand on, or pass on the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
▸ noun: (US, slang) An arsonist.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun sense 1).
▸ verb: (originally and chiefly US, 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.
▸ verb: (figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: Of a fire: to burn.
▸ verb: (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
▸ verb: (UK, dialectal, figurative) To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
▸ verb: (US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
▸ verb: (transitive, masonry, archaic or historical) To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.
▸ noun: (science fiction) Short for torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”). [(science fiction) A spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion.]
▸ noun: (chiefly Canada, US) 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”). [A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.]
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▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (by extension) A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
▸ noun: (by extension, Commonwealth) In full electric torch: synonym of flashlight (“a battery-powered hand-held light source”)
▸ noun: (by extension, botany)
▸ noun: A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
▸ noun: A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
▸ noun: (chiefly in the plural) The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
▸ noun: (obsolete) A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
▸ noun: (figurative)
▸ noun: A source of enlightenment or guidance.
▸ noun: In carry, hand on, or pass on the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
▸ noun: (US, slang) An arsonist.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun sense 1).
▸ verb: (originally and chiefly US, 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.
▸ verb: (figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: Of a fire: to burn.
▸ verb: (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (“an engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
▸ verb: (UK, dialectal, figurative) To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
▸ verb: (US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
▸ verb: (transitive, masonry, archaic or historical) To point (“fill up and bring to a smooth finish”) (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.
▸ noun: (science fiction) Short for torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”). [(science fiction) A spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion.]
▸ noun: (chiefly Canada, US) 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”). [A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.]
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