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Torch vs. Tourch — What's the Difference?

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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