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单词 torchwood
释义

torch /törch/

noun
  1. A piece of wood or inflammable material dipped in tallow or wax and lighted, carried or mounted on a wall, etc to give light
  2. A large candle
  3. A small, battery-powered portable electric lamp
  4. An appliance producing a hot flame for welding, burning, etc
  5. A source of enlightenment, guidance, etc
  6. An arsonist (US sl)
  7. A glowing flower or inflorescence, eg mullein
  8. A tall cactaceous plant
transitive verb
  1. To light with a torch or torches
  2. To set alight deliberately (slang, esp US)
  3. To sing (a torch song) (rare; US)
ORIGIN: Fr torche, from L torquēre, tortum to twist

torchˈer noun (Shakespeare)

A light-giver

torchˈing noun (slang, esp US)

The act of setting something alight, esp deliberately

torchˈbearer noun

  1. A person who carries a torch
  2. A leading, prominent figure in a cause, etc (figurative)

torchˈ-dance noun

torchˈlight noun

torchˈ-lily noun

The red-hot poker (Kniphofia or Tritoma)

torchˈ-race noun (historical)

A race in which the runners carried torches and passed them to others

torch singer noun

torch song noun

  1. A popular song of the 1930s giving lugubrious expression to the pangs of unrequited love
  2. A sentimental or melancholy love song

torchˈ-staff noun (pl torchˈ-staves) (Shakespeare)

A staff for carrying a torch

torchˈ-thistle noun

A cereus

torchˈwood noun

  1. Any of several resinous woods suitable for making torches
  2. Any tree yielding such wood, esp Amyris balsamifera, native to Florida and the West Indies

carry the (or a) torch (for)

To suffer unrequited love (for)

put to the torch

To burn down

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