Torch vs. Tourch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Torch and Tourch
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Torch
A torch is a stick with combustible material at one end, which is ignited and used as a light source. Torches have been used throughout history, and are still used in processions, symbolic and religious events, and in juggling entertainment.
Tourch
Tourch (Breton: Tourc'h) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
Torch
A portable light produced by the flame of a stick of resinous wood or of a flammable material wound about the end of a stick of wood; a flambeau.
Torch
Chiefly British A flashlight.
Torch
Something that serves to illuminate, enlighten, or guide.
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Torch
(Slang) An arsonist.
Torch
A portable apparatus that produces a very hot flame by the combustion of gases, used in welding and construction.
Torch
Longstanding unrequited romantic feelings for a person
My torch for her has finally gone out.
Torch
To cause to burn or undergo combustion, especially with extraordinary rapidity, force, or thoroughness.
Torch
A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.
The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire's castle.
Torch
(Commonwealth) A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.
Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.
Torch
(US) An arsonist.
Torch
A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.
Torch
(scifi) A torch drive ("a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion").
Torch
To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).
Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.
Torch
(scifi) To travel in a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive ("a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion").
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.
They light the nuptial torch.
Torch
A flashlight.
Torch
A light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
Torch
Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
Torch
A small portable battery-powered electric lamp
Torch
A burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
Torch
Burn maliciously, as by arson;
The madman torched the barns
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