torrent

1 of 3

noun

tor·rent ˈtȯr-ənt How to pronounce torrent (audio)

ˈtär-

plural torrents

: a violent or forceful flow of fluid

Terrifying video captured near Hawaii volcano Kilauea shows a torrent of lava violently flowing down the slopes of the erupting mount …

Aurora Bosotti

especially : a rushing stream of water

Beneath the area's dense canopy of vegetation, rugged hills and valleys are bisected by streams that rage as torrents during the rainy season, forbidding terrain for any unwelcome stranger.

Anthony Loyd

… the vast network of storm-water drains that move great torrents of water out of the city when it rains …

Duncan Murrell

As church bells pealed yesterday, a torrent of water was unleashed through a manmade gap in the 162-year-old Edwards Dam in the first U.S. government-ordered demolition of a dam in the name of conservation.

Glen Adams

: a heavy downpour of rain

… a torrent of rain poured down.

Walter Farley

—usually used in plural

The rain is coming down in torrents. Lightning is flashing.

Alice WalkerTorrents of rain drenched the Hamptons …

Chris Mundy

: a tumultuous outpouring : rush

Injuries, a 13-game losing streak and a torrent of criticism have turned this into the toughest season of Vince Carter's four-year career.

Ian Thomsen

The torrent of money flowing into the field can only be described in superlatives—hundreds of millions of dollars for efforts such as Princeton's Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior and MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Charles Barber

— often used in plural

… torrents of unsolicited e-mail advertising …

Peter H. Lewis… once he becomes fixed on a subject, the words come in torrents.

Jeffrey Goldberg

: a channel of a mountain stream

As we advanced up the valley, the road presented yet another vertiginous challenge. Being a single track carved out of the mountain wall that flanked a glacial torrent, it meant that when a car came from the opposite direction, one had to back to the nearest turnaround.

June P. Wilson

computing : a protocol (see protocol sense 3b) that is used to distribute a large computer file (such as of digitized music or video) that has been segmented in small pieces between a large number of peer-to-peer users

… user behaviour, such as use of file-sharing services and protocols like torrent …

Shelley Boose

Over the weekend, several ISPs … began showing a warning to users when they visited certain torrent or other file-sharing websites.

Rajat Agrawal

also : a file or set of files that is transferred with this protocol

Let me just share the best way I know how to download torrents without setting off any red flags.

Daniel Bulygin

Torrent files have been a top choice of users across the internet to share files for almost two decades.

Ivan Mehta

torrent

2 of 3

verb

torrented; torrenting; torrents

intransitive : to move in a torrent (see torrent entry 1 sense 1a)

rivers of torrenting water

Water torrents off hillsides, thunders over falls, sparkles in ponds and pools.

Sunset

transitive + intransitive : to download via a torrent (see torrent entry 1 sense 4)

Torrenting itself isn't illegal, but downloading unsanctioned copyrighted material is. It's not always immediately apparent which content is legal to torrent and which isn't.

Paul Bischoff

[Dan] Schlosser said that when he was caught torrenting, the University forwarded him a notice of copyright infringement from HBO and warned that if he were caught again, he would have to meet with a representative from the Office of Judicial Affairs.

Aaron Fisher

torrent

3 of 3

adjective

: torrential

Example Sentences

Noun The storm turned the stream into a raging torrent. The rain came down in torrents.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

In a matters of hours, what was about a foot of rain became a torrent of water.

Susannah George, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022 Leah Hextall faced a torrent of online harassment and abuse during her first year as ESPN's NHL broadcaster.

Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022 When rains came strangely hard and fast, the vast network of dams slowed a torrent of water raging down the mountain, protecting his hay crop.

The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022 The final painting, titled Kiss (Bones and All), features a torrent of brushstrokes in bruise-like shades of purple, blue, and black; appearing almost entirely abstract at first, the features of the actors begin to emerge on closer inspection.

Liam Hess, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2022 By March 2021, according to a survey by Turner, nearly 1,500 U.S. businesses were pitching the suspect treatments at more than 2,700 clinics, reflecting a torrent of openings since 2016, when Turner and Knoepfler jointly started tracking the field.

Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022 The court’s deference to the sovereign will of the people in Gobitis, for example, had unleashed a torrent of abuse and violence against members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022 During the recent exercises, the People’s Liberation Army put out a torrent of videos, pictures and reports that blurred the line between propaganda and misinformation.

New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022 On July 7, 2022, the erosive power of the water cut a new channel, sending a torrent of lake water flooding into the creek.

Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022

Adjective

During his torrent week for Norfolk, Stowers hit three homers in one game and knocked in 10 RBIs.

Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

borrowed from French & Latin; French, "violent stream of liquid," going back to Old French, borrowed from Latin torrent-, torrens "rushing stream, river current," noun derivative of torrens, adjective, "flowing headlong, rushing," probably going back to a participial derivative of an Indo-European stative present *tr̥s-eh₁- "be dried out, be dessicated," from a verbal base *ters- "dry up, become thirsty" — more at thirst entry 1

Note: According to the hypothesis suggested in the etymology, the original meaning of the noun torrens would have been "dessicated area, dry stream bed"; as such stream beds, particularly in Mediterranean climates, could be filled with fast-flowing water during rainy periods, the meaning shifted to "rushing stream." Hence the homonymy between torrens and the present participle of the causative verb torrēre "to heat so as to dry, scorch, parch" (from *tors-see torrid) would be fortuitous. Such a shift was already hypothesized by the Roman grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus.

Verb

verbal derivative of torrent entry 1

Adjective

borrowed from Latin torrent-, torrens "flowing headlong, rushing" — more at torrent entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

1858, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Adjective

1667, in the meaning defined above

torrent

noun

as in flood

a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms the dam broke, unleashing a torrent down the dry riverbed

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

flood
stream
tide
deluge
influx
inundation
river
avalanche
overflow
spate
flood tide
waterfall
bath
alluvion
blizzard
cataclysm
cascade
cataract
outflow
outpouring
inflow
cloudburst
current
gush
Niagara
washout
glut
surplus
flux
engulfment
overabundance
excess
flush
surfeit
discharge
overkill
superabundance
oversupply
overage
superfluity
overmuch

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

drought
trickle
drip
drouth
dribble

单词	torrent
释义	torrent 1 of 3 noun tor·rent ˈtȯr-ənt ˈtär- plural torrents 1 a : a violent or forceful flow of fluid Terrifying video captured near Hawaii volcano Kilauea shows a torrent of lava violently flowing down the slopes of the erupting mount … Aurora Bosotti especially : a rushing stream of water Beneath the area's dense canopy of vegetation, rugged hills and valleys are bisected by streams that rage as torrents during the rainy season, forbidding terrain for any unwelcome stranger. Anthony Loyd … the vast network of storm-water drains that move great torrents of water out of the city when it rains … Duncan Murrell As church bells pealed yesterday, a torrent of water was unleashed through a manmade gap in the 162-year-old Edwards Dam in the first U.S. government-ordered demolition of a dam in the name of conservation. Glen Adams b : a heavy downpour of rain … a torrent of rain poured down. Walter Farley —usually used in plural The rain is coming down in torrents. Lightning is flashing. Alice WalkerTorrents of rain drenched the Hamptons … Chris Mundy 2 : a tumultuous outpouring : rush Injuries, a 13-game losing streak and a torrent of criticism have turned this into the toughest season of Vince Carter's four-year career. Ian Thomsen The torrent of money flowing into the field can only be described in superlatives—hundreds of millions of dollars for efforts such as Princeton's Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior and MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Charles Barber — often used in plural … torrents of unsolicited e-mail advertising … Peter H. Lewis… once he becomes fixed on a subject, the words come in torrents. Jeffrey Goldberg 3 : a channel of a mountain stream As we advanced up the valley, the road presented yet another vertiginous challenge. Being a single track carved out of the mountain wall that flanked a glacial torrent, it meant that when a car came from the opposite direction, one had to back to the nearest turnaround. June P. Wilson 4 computing : a protocol (see protocol sense 3b) that is used to distribute a large computer file (such as of digitized music or video) that has been segmented in small pieces between a large number of peer-to-peer users … user behaviour, such as use of file-sharing services and protocols like torrent … Shelley Boose Over the weekend, several ISPs … began showing a warning to users when they visited certain torrent or other file-sharing websites. Rajat Agrawal also : a file or set of files that is transferred with this protocol Let me just share the best way I know how to download torrents without setting off any red flags. Daniel Bulygin Torrent files have been a top choice of users across the internet to share files for almost two decades. Ivan Mehta torrent 2 of 3 verb torrented; torrenting; torrents 1 intransitive : to move in a torrent (see torrent entry 1 sense 1a) rivers of torrenting water Water torrents off hillsides, thunders over falls, sparkles in ponds and pools. Sunset 2 transitive + intransitive : to download via a torrent (see torrent entry 1 sense 4) Torrenting itself isn't illegal, but downloading unsanctioned copyrighted material is. It's not always immediately apparent which content is legal to torrent and which isn't. Paul Bischoff [Dan] Schlosser said that when he was caught torrenting, the University forwarded him a notice of copyright infringement from HBO and warned that if he were caught again, he would have to meet with a representative from the Office of Judicial Affairs. Aaron Fisher torrent 3 of 3 adjective : torrential Synonyms Noun alluvion bath cataclysm cataract deluge flood flood tide inundation Niagara overflow spate See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun The storm turned the stream into a raging torrent. The rain came down in torrents. Recent Examples on the Web Noun In a matters of hours, what was about a foot of rain became a torrent of water. Susannah George, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022 Leah Hextall faced a torrent of online harassment and abuse during her first year as ESPN's NHL broadcaster. Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2022 When rains came strangely hard and fast, the vast network of dams slowed a torrent of water raging down the mountain, protecting his hay crop. The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022 The final painting, titled Kiss (Bones and All), features a torrent of brushstrokes in bruise-like shades of purple, blue, and black; appearing almost entirely abstract at first, the features of the actors begin to emerge on closer inspection. Liam Hess, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2022 By March 2021, according to a survey by Turner, nearly 1,500 U.S. businesses were pitching the suspect treatments at more than 2,700 clinics, reflecting a torrent of openings since 2016, when Turner and Knoepfler jointly started tracking the field. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022 The court’s deference to the sovereign will of the people in Gobitis, for example, had unleashed a torrent of abuse and violence against members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022 During the recent exercises, the People’s Liberation Army put out a torrent of videos, pictures and reports that blurred the line between propaganda and misinformation. New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022 On July 7, 2022, the erosive power of the water cut a new channel, sending a torrent of lake water flooding into the creek. Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Aug. 2022 Adjective During his torrent week for Norfolk, Stowers hit three homers in one game and knocked in 10 RBIs. Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2022 See More Word History Etymology Noun borrowed from French & Latin; French, "violent stream of liquid," going back to Old French, borrowed from Latin torrent-, torrens "rushing stream, river current," noun derivative of torrens, adjective, "flowing headlong, rushing," probably going back to a participial derivative of an Indo-European stative present tr̥s-eh₁- "be dried out, be dessicated," from a verbal base ters- "dry up, become thirsty" — more at thirst entry 1 Note: According to the hypothesis suggested in the etymology, the original meaning of the noun torrens would have been "dessicated area, dry stream bed"; as such stream beds, particularly in Mediterranean climates, could be filled with fast-flowing water during rainy periods, the meaning shifted to "rushing stream." Hence the homonymy between torrens and the present participle of the causative verb torrēre "to heat so as to dry, scorch, parch" (from tors-see torrid) would be fortuitous. Such a shift was already hypothesized by the Roman grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus. Verb verbal derivative of torrent entry 1 Adjective borrowed from Latin torrent-, torrens* "flowing headlong, rushing" — more at torrent entry 1 First Known Use Noun 1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Verb 1858, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Adjective 1667, in the meaning defined above Kids Definition torrent noun tor·rent ˈtȯr-ənt 1 : a rushing stream of liquid 2 : a large amount of something especially that is released suddenly a torrent of rain The mice came out in a torrent. Robert McCloskey, Homer Price torrent noun as in flood a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms the dam broke, unleashing a torrent down the dry riverbed Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance flood stream tide deluge influx inundation river avalanche overflow spate flood tide waterfall bath alluvion blizzard cataclysm cascade cataract outflow outpouring inflow cloudburst current gush Niagara washout glut surplus flux engulfment overabundance excess flush surfeit discharge overkill superabundance oversupply overage superfluity overmuch Antonyms & Near Antonyms drought trickle drip drouth dribble
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torrent

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