A torch is a handheld light. Although flashlights are sometimes called "torches," technically a torch has a burning flame.
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.
Noun
a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
Noun
a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
Noun
a light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
Noun
tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
Verb
burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns"
n.
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.
n.
A flashlight.
Torch
They light the nuptial torch.
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.
Usage Examples
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
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Other Usage ExamplesScience knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
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