Torch

Quick meaning: Torch is a noun meaning A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.

Meaning

A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.

More Meanings

1. A spike (“kind of inflorescence”) made up of spikelets.
2. The common mullein, great mullein, or torchwort (Verbascum thapsus).
3. A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
4. A source of enlightenment or guidance.
5. (science fiction) Ellipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
6. 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.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

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

Enter at one doore Æneas, at another Paris, Deiphobus, Antemor [i.e., Antenor], Diomed [i.e., Diomedes] vvith torches.

He remembered […] how he heard Mrs Coldfield's feet and saw the light of the torch approaching along the upper hall and how she came and passed him, […]

The large lagoon-style pool has a sandy beach and swim-up bar. Coconut palms with white-painted trunks surround the lagoon, which is lit by flaming torches at night.

Word Forms

• torches
• torching
• torched

Synonyms for torch

Depending on context, synonyms include brand, firebrand, flambeau, burn, ignite, inflame.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blowtorch, blowlamp, flashlight, candle, oxyacetylene, lighter.

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