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torch noun

  /tɔɹt͡ʃ/ , /tɔːtʃ/
  • (by extension) A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
  • 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.
  • A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.
  • A source of enlightenment or guidance.
  • In carry, hand on,take up pass on the torch: a precious cause, principle, tradition, etc., which needs to be protected and transmitted to others.
 soihtu

torch verb

  /tɔɹt͡ʃ/ , /tɔːtʃ/
  • (US, fishing) To catch fish or other aquatic animals by torchlight; to go torch-fishing.
 kalastaa soihdunvalossa
  • (science fiction) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive.
 matkustaa fuusiolla toimivalla avaruusaluksella
  • Of a fire: to burn.
 palaa
  • (informal, originally, US) To intentionally destroy (something) by setting it on fire, especially when committing arson in furtherance of some other criminal act (e.g. insurance fraud or the destruction of evidence).
 polttaa tahallaan
  • (figurative) To make damaging claims about (someone or something); to ruin the reputation of (someone or something); to disparage, to insult.
 polttaa, sytyttää tuleen
  • (UK, dialectal, figurative) To (appear to) flare up like a torch.
 syttyä kuin soihtu
  • To illuminate or provide (a place) with torches (noun sense 1).
 valaista soihduin

torch verb

  /tɔɹt͡ʃ/ , /tɔːtʃ/
  • (transitive, masonry, archaic, or, historical) To point (inside joints of slates laid on laths) using lime hair mortar.
 rapata hiuksilla vahvistetulla kalkkilaastilla
Swedish torch
jätkänkynttilä
pass the torch
antaa kapula eteenpäin
tiki torch
bambusoihtu
benzine torch
polttopullo
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