torrentn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtɒrənt/,

/ˈtɒrn̩t/, U.S.

/ˈtɔrənt/

Etymology: < French torrent (a1200 in Godefroy Compl.), < Latin torrēnt-em burning, boiling, rushing, impetuous, present participle of torrēre to scorch, burn; also as noun, a torrent. Compare the sense-transition of Latin aestus fire, fierce heat, the surging or flowing of the sea, the tide.

A. n.

1. A stream of water flowing with great swiftness and impetuosity, whether from the steepness of its course, or from being temporarily flooded; more esp. applied (as in French) to a mountain stream which at times is full of rushing water and at other times is more or less dry: cf. winterbourne n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent

floodc1275

floodgatea1425

waterfall1578

torrent1609

torrent-stream1728

rattle1770

lavant1774

fiumara1820

torrent-flood1825

skookum chuck1888

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xiii. iii Of ryuers beþ twei manere kindes..one is icleped a lyuynge ryuer; þat oþer manere ryuer hatte Torreens and is a water þat comeþ wiþ swifte rees and passeþ; and hatte torrens for it creseþ in grete rayne and fordruyeþ in druye wedeir.

1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xxij So firste we come to Torrens Cedronn, which in somer tyme is drye. [Cf. Vulgate John xviii. 1, trans torrentem Cedron, in Lindisf. gl.  uinterburna cedron.]]

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xxvi. Comm. Torrent, the chanel where sometimes a vehement streame runneth, sometimes none at al.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 109 The Torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty Sinewes.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 54 The wary Ploughman, on the Mountain's Brow, Undams his watry Stores, huge Torrents flow.

1760 S. Johnson Idler 23 Feb. 57 He observed among the Hills many Hollows worn by Torrents.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. i. 14 The Ilissus..is a mere brook, which is sometimes swollen into a torrent.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 299 This green thread is the course of the torrent now called Kelt, possibly the ancient Cherith.

1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. I. 247 We discerned the dry beds of mountain torrents, which had lived too fierce a life to let it be a long one.

a. figurative. A violent or tumultuous flow, onrush, or ‘stream’, e.g. of words, feelings, opposition, etc.; a ‘flood’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of > violent surge of something > specifically of words or feeling

spatec1614

sally1676

torrent1702

shower bath1808

simoom1813

irruption1883

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 3 Those, who, out of Duty and Conscience, have opposed that Torrent, which did overwhelm them.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 28 The torrent of his Impetuous Passions.

1784 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 326 She poured forth again a torrent of unrelenting abuse.

1826 Margravine of Anspach Mem. I. viii. 304 He was forced to follow the torrent of his notes [in music].

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 249 The near approach of the resistless torrent of Turkish power.

b. transferred. A forcible stream or rushing body (of various physical things, as lava, loose stones, wind, light); also, a violent downpour of rain.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of > violent surge of something

tenth wave1585

billow1667

torrent1781

1781 More in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 52 The force of those violent torrents of wind.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 30 A soaking torrent of rain.

1821 Turner's Easy Introd. Arts & Sci. (ed. 18) 37 Torrents of smoke and of flames, rivers of melted metals.

1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 573/1 The moon arose and shed a torrent of light upon the Langdale Fells.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 23 The rain coming down in torrents.

1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 360 The torrents of liquid lava which flow from volcanos.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. viii. 58 A torrent of what appeared to me to be stones and mud.

c. A mass of hanging foliage, drapery, etc. resembling in appearance a descending stream.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount

felec825

muchc1230

good wone1297

plentyc1300

bushelc1374

sight1390

mickle-whata1393

forcea1400

manynessa1400

multitudea1400

packc1400

a good dealc1430

greata1450

sackful1484

power1489

horseloadc1500

mile1508

lump1523

a deal?1532

peckc1535

heapa1547

mass1566

mass1569

gallon1575

armful1579

cart-load1587

mickle1599

bushelful1600–12

a load1609

wreck1612

parisha1616

herd1618

fair share1650

heapa1661

muchness1674

reams1681

hantle1693

mort1694

doll?1719

lift1755

acre1759

beaucoup1760

ton1770

boxload1795

boatload1807

lot1811

dollop1819

swag1819

faggald1824

screed1826

Niagara1828

wad1828

lashings1829

butt1831

slew1839

ocean1840

any amount (of)1848

rake1851

slather1857

horde1860

torrent1864

sheaf1865

oodlesa1867

dead load1869

scad1869

stack1870

jorum1872

a heap sight1874

firlot1883

oodlings1886

chunka1889

whips1888

God's quantity1895

streetful1901

bag1917

fid1920

fleetful1923

mob1927

bucketload1930

pisspot1944

shitload1954

megaton1957

mob-o-ton1975

gazillion1978

buttload1988

shit ton1991

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 284 A cliff over which the ivy pours in torrents.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 271 A loose white gown that was all torrents and cascades of lace.

B. adj.

Rushing like a torrent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with impetuous speed or headlong

ranka1250

whirling1382

hurlingc1400

whithering1513

headling?1518

vehement1528

heady1562

headlongc1565

precipitant1649

precipitate1654

torrent1667

precipitous1681

tearing1765

torrentuous1840

whirlwind1865

torrential1877

Gadarene1895

rocketing1952

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 581 Fierce Phlegeton Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 55 As one, That listens near a torrent mountain-brook.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. Simple attributive.

torrent-action n.

ΚΠ

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiv. 150 The evidences of torrent-action were unequivocal.

torrent-bed n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > river-bed

flood-womba1382

bottomc1400

river bottom1662

pole ground1773

riverbed1781

torrent-bed1867

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands vii. 203 We rode through this same torrent-bed, at this time of the year, dry.

torrent-flood n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent

floodc1275

floodgatea1425

waterfall1578

torrent1609

torrent-stream1728

rattle1770

lavant1774

fiumara1820

torrent-flood1825

skookum chuck1888

1825 J. Wilson Poems II. 209 Each misty cataract, and torrent-flood.

torrent-line n.

ΚΠ

1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye I. 287 They stand with all their scars and torrent-lines bare to the blue heavens.

torrent-scar n.

torrent-sound n.

torrent-stream n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent

floodc1275

floodgatea1425

waterfall1578

torrent1609

torrent-stream1728

rattle1770

lavant1774

fiumara1820

torrent-flood1825

skookum chuck1888

1728 D. Mallet Excursion i. 44 A thousand Torrent Streams, Each ploughing up its way.

torrent-voice n.

torrent-water n.

ΚΠ

1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Nov. 7/2 The feeding torrents might be diverted or blocked, and the Abyssinian torrent-water might be so interfered with as largely to deprive the river of the fertilising matter which it carries in suspension.

torrent-wise adv.

ΚΠ

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xii. 379 These..fly torrent-wise along the winds.

C2. Objective.

torrent-braving adj.

ΚΠ

1777 T. Warton Odes viii. vi The foam-beat pier, and torrent-braving mound.

C3. Instrumental.

torrent-bitten adj.

torrent-borne adj.

ΚΠ

1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 258 The huge sweeping wave whirling the torrent-borne sticks and boughs.

C4. Similative.

torrent-like adj.

ΚΠ

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 241 Salmon..gain the sources of the Lapland rivers in spite of their torrent-like currents.

torrent-mad adj.

C5. Special combinations:

torrent-bow n. a rainbow formed in the spray of a torrent.

ΚΠ

1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xxxi, in Poems (new ed.) 78 In steamy folds, that, floating as they fell, Lit up a torrentbow.

torrent-duck n. any species of duck of the South American genus Merganetta.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of

Roan duck1763

wood-duck1777

Rouen1785

lady1792

stranger1792

Rouen duck1795

tree-duck1824

Labrador duck1834

hareld1841

whio1847

pink-eyed duck1848

penguin duck1850

topknot duck1850

Aylesbury1854

roan1854

pink-eye1861

Peking duck1874

runner1878

bluebill1884

Steller's (eider) (duck)1884

Peking1885

half-bird1893

torrent-duck1899

1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 116 This peculiar and tame torrent-duck is rarely seen on the sea, though it can fly from one gorge to another.

Derivatives

ˈtorrentful adj. full of torrent or rush of words.

ˈtorrentfulness n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fluency

profluence1568

flowing1584

slidingnessa1586

currentness1586

smoothness1589

facility1598

fluidity1603

fluency1636

profluencya1683

volubleness1727

torrentfulness1873

sonority1876

unrestraint1885

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vi. 162 The torrent-fulness, the intoxicating charm of Pindar.

ˈtorrentless adj. void of torrents.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [adjective] > belonging to torrents > void of torrents

torrentless1911

1911 B. W. Bacon in Expositor Mar. 205 The rainless, torrentless, alluvial valley of the Nile.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	torrent
释义	torrentn.adj. Brit. /ˈtɒrənt/, /ˈtɒrn̩t/, U.S. /ˈtɔrənt/ Etymology: < French torrent (a1200 in Godefroy Compl.), < Latin torrēnt-em burning, boiling, rushing, impetuous, present participle of torrēre to scorch, burn; also as noun, a torrent. Compare the sense-transition of Latin aestus fire, fierce heat, the surging or flowing of the sea, the tide. A. n. 1. A stream of water flowing with great swiftness and impetuosity, whether from the steepness of its course, or from being temporarily flooded; more esp. applied (as in French) to a mountain stream which at times is full of rushing water and at other times is more or less dry: cf. winterbourne n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent floodc1275 floodgatea1425 waterfall1578 torrent1609 torrent-stream1728 rattle1770 lavant1774 fiumara1820 torrent-flood1825 skookum chuck1888 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xiii. iii Of ryuers beþ twei manere kindes..one is icleped a lyuynge ryuer; þat oþer manere ryuer hatte Torreens and is a water þat comeþ wiþ swifte rees and passeþ; and hatte torrens for it creseþ in grete rayne and fordruyeþ in druye wedeir. 1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xxij So firste we come to Torrens Cedronn, which in somer tyme is drye. [Cf. Vulgate John xviii. 1, trans torrentem Cedron, in Lindisf. gl.  uinterburna cedron.]] 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xxvi. Comm. Torrent, the chanel where sometimes a vehement streame runneth, sometimes none at al. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 109 The Torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty Sinewes. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 54 The wary Ploughman, on the Mountain's Brow, Undams his watry Stores, huge Torrents flow. View more context for this quotation 1760 S. Johnson Idler 23 Feb. 57 He observed among the Hills many Hollows worn by Torrents. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. i. 14 The Ilissus..is a mere brook, which is sometimes swollen into a torrent. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 299 This green thread is the course of the torrent now called Kelt, possibly the ancient Cherith. 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. I. 247 We discerned the dry beds of mountain torrents, which had lived too fierce a life to let it be a long one. 2. a. figurative. A violent or tumultuous flow, onrush, or ‘stream’, e.g. of words, feelings, opposition, etc.; a ‘flood’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of > violent surge of something > specifically of words or feeling spatec1614 sally1676 torrent1702 shower bath1808 simoom1813 irruption1883 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 3 Those, who, out of Duty and Conscience, have opposed that Torrent, which did overwhelm them. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 28 The torrent of his Impetuous Passions. 1784 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 326 She poured forth again a torrent of unrelenting abuse. 1826 Margravine of Anspach Mem. I. viii. 304 He was forced to follow the torrent of his notes [in music]. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 249 The near approach of the resistless torrent of Turkish power. b. transferred. A forcible stream or rushing body (of various physical things, as lava, loose stones, wind, light); also, a violent downpour of rain. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > bursting violently from rest or restraint > instance of > violent surge of something tenth wave1585 billow1667 torrent1781 1781 More in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 52 The force of those violent torrents of wind. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 30 A soaking torrent of rain. 1821 Turner's Easy Introd. Arts & Sci. (ed. 18) 37 Torrents of smoke and of flames, rivers of melted metals. 1839 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 573/1 The moon arose and shed a torrent of light upon the Langdale Fells. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast x. 23 The rain coming down in torrents. 1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 360 The torrents of liquid lava which flow from volcanos. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. viii. 58 A torrent of what appeared to me to be stones and mud. c. A mass of hanging foliage, drapery, etc. resembling in appearance a descending stream. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 284 A cliff over which the ivy pours in torrents. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 271 A loose white gown that was all torrents and cascades of lace. B. adj. Rushing like a torrent. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving with impetuous speed or headlong ranka1250 whirling1382 hurlingc1400 whithering1513 headling?1518 vehement1528 heady1562 headlongc1565 precipitant1649 precipitate1654 torrent1667 precipitous1681 tearing1765 torrentuous1840 whirlwind1865 torrential1877 Gadarene1895 rocketing1952 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 581 Fierce Phlegeton Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. View more context for this quotation 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 55 As one, That listens near a torrent mountain-brook. Compounds General attributive. C1. Simple attributive. a. torrent-action n. ΚΠ 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiv. 150 The evidences of torrent-action were unequivocal. torrent-bed n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > river-bed flood-womba1382 bottomc1400 river bottom1662 pole ground1773 riverbed1781 torrent-bed1867 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands vii. 203 We rode through this same torrent-bed, at this time of the year, dry. torrent-flood n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent floodc1275 floodgatea1425 waterfall1578 torrent1609 torrent-stream1728 rattle1770 lavant1774 fiumara1820 torrent-flood1825 skookum chuck1888 1825 J. Wilson Poems II. 209 Each misty cataract, and torrent-flood. torrent-line n. ΚΠ 1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye I. 287 They stand with all their scars and torrent-lines bare to the blue heavens. torrent-scar n. torrent-sound n. torrent-stream n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > torrent floodc1275 floodgatea1425 waterfall1578 torrent1609 torrent-stream1728 rattle1770 lavant1774 fiumara1820 torrent-flood1825 skookum chuck1888 1728 D. Mallet Excursion i. 44 A thousand Torrent Streams, Each ploughing up its way. torrent-voice n. torrent-water n. ΚΠ 1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Nov. 7/2 The feeding torrents might be diverted or blocked, and the Abyssinian torrent-water might be so interfered with as largely to deprive the river of the fertilising matter which it carries in suspension. b. torrent-wise adv. ΚΠ 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xii. 379 These..fly torrent-wise along the winds. C2. Objective. torrent-braving adj. ΚΠ 1777 T. Warton Odes viii. vi The foam-beat pier, and torrent-braving mound. C3. Instrumental. torrent-bitten adj. torrent-borne adj. ΚΠ 1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 258 The huge sweeping wave whirling the torrent-borne sticks and boughs. C4. Similative. torrent-like adj. ΚΠ 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 241 Salmon..gain the sources of the Lapland rivers in spite of their torrent-like currents. torrent-mad adj. C5. Special combinations: torrent-bow n. a rainbow formed in the spray of a torrent. ΚΠ 1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art xxxi, in Poems (new ed.) 78 In steamy folds, that, floating as they fell, Lit up a torrentbow. torrent-duck n. any species of duck of the South American genus Merganetta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of Roan duck1763 wood-duck1777 Rouen1785 lady1792 stranger1792 Rouen duck1795 tree-duck1824 Labrador duck1834 hareld1841 whio1847 pink-eyed duck1848 penguin duck1850 topknot duck1850 Aylesbury1854 roan1854 pink-eye1861 Peking duck1874 runner1878 bluebill1884 Steller's (eider) (duck)1884 Peking1885 half-bird1893 torrent-duck1899 1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 116 This peculiar and tame torrent-duck is rarely seen on the sea, though it can fly from one gorge to another. Derivatives ˈtorrentful adj. full of torrent or rush of words. ˈtorrentfulness n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fluency profluence1568 flowing1584 slidingnessa1586 currentness1586 smoothness1589 facility1598 fluidity1603 fluency1636 profluencya1683 volubleness1727 torrentfulness1873 sonority1876 unrestraint1885 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vi. 162 The torrent-fulness, the intoxicating charm of Pindar. ˈtorrentless adj. void of torrents. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [adjective] > belonging to torrents > void of torrents torrentless1911 1911 B. W. Bacon in Expositor Mar. 205 The rainless, torrentless, alluvial valley of the Nile. 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