torch in English
- torch⇄adj. torchlike.
- torch⇄expr. carry a (or the) torch, (Slang.)
a. to be in love, especially without being loved in return.
Ex. He has been carrying the torch for her for months.
b. to crusade (for); campaign (for a cause).
Ex. Oddly enough, it is Coron - torch⇄expr. hand on the torch, to pass on the tradition; continue or perpetuate the custom, practice, or belief.
Ex. Those [sonnets] handed on the torch of courtly love for good and ill to the Elizabethans (C. C. Abbott). - torch⇄noun 1a. a light to be carried around or stuck in a holder on a wall. A piece of pinewood, or anything that burns easily, makes a good torch.
Ex. The Statue of Liberty holds a torch.
(SYN) firebrand.
b. a lamp carried or supported on - torch⇄torch, noun, verb.
- torch⇄v.i. 1. to flare like a torch; rise like smoke from a torch.
Ex. ""Law! how them clouds torch up, we shall have rain"" (James Halliwell).
2. (U.S.) to catch fish, or hunt, by torchlight. - torch⇄v.t. 1. to furnish, or light, with a torch.
Ex. (Figurative.) we sit, watching sunlight torch the wooded west (New York Times).
2. (in plastering) to point the inside joints of (slating) with a mixture of lime and hair.
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