Word Finder - torch

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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.

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The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire's castle.

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A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.

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Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.

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An arsonist.

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A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.

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To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).

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Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.

He ripped open the door, blinded by the torch light in the halls.

Kris lit another torch to display a darkened case on the wall.

The chamber beyond was dark, lit by the soft glow of a single torch beside a clear sarcophagus.

He took in the gilded sconces and carved statues until his sensitive eyes watered, and he closed his eyes to the torch light.

Relieved, he snatched a torch and waved it thrice, until Vara wheeled and disappeared into the forest.

In the wash of the hand torch, the tunnel opened up before them.

It had now reached a degree of sanctity and only the priest might touch it; it was sprinkled with water, and anointed with butter; finally, the priest made three turns round it with a lighted torch in his hand, which finally separated it from the world and fitted it for its high purpose.

Always follow safety instructions when using a welding torch.

One of the guards at the mouth of the cage strode in with a torch, illuminating the dead bodies surrounding her.

If the latter view is correct, the torch race would be closely akin to the Lemnian fire-ritual which has been mentioned.

Alone of the gods besides Helios, she witnessed the abduction of Persephone, and, torch in hand (a natural symbol for the moon's, light, but see Farnell), assisted Demeter in her search for her daughter.

Meanwhile the study of mathematics was not neglected, as appears not only from his giving instruction in geometry to his younger brother Daniel, but from his writings on the differential, integral, and exponential calculus, and from his father considering him, at the age of twenty-one, worthy of receiving the torch of science from his own hands.

As a goddess of the moon she wears a long robe, carries a torch, and her head is surmounted by a crescent.

It was dim inside the stronghold, and the first torch they crossed that burned with black flames mesmerized her long enough for her to lose sight of Darkyn around a corner.

Kris lit another torch to shed light on the murals on the floor.

This was notably the case with some of the Aristotelian writings, so that in this field, as in some others, the Syriac writers handed on the torch of Greek thought to the Arabs, by whom it was in turn transmitted to medieval Europe.

It might not be easy to formulate precisely the doctrines for which he died, and certainly some of them, as, for example, that regarding the church, were such as many Protestants even would regard as unguarded and difficult to harmonize with the maintenance of external church order; but his is undoubtedly the honour of having been the chief intermediary in handing on from Wycliffe to Luther the torch which kindled the Reformation, and of having been one of the bravest of the martyrs who have died in the cause of honesty and freedom, of progress and of growth towards the light.

Performing the TORCH panel requires obtaining a sample of the infant's blood.

Ready to torch those calories in a whole new way?

Playfair (1789-1857), but it was not till 1883 that the building was completed by the dome, crowned by the bronze figure of Youth bearing the torch of Knowledge, on the facade in South Bridge Street.

As already suggested, it cannot be allowed that Hobbes falls into any regular succession from Bacon; neither can it be said that he handed on the torch to Locke.

The pediatrician may order the TORCH test to be performed when a newborn has these symptoms, in order to determine if any of the five types of infection may be involved.

Besides general symptoms that may encourage a pediatrician to order the TORCH panel of tests, each of the TORCH infections has its own origins and may have a characteristic cluster of symptoms in newborns.

Syphilis was added to the TORCH panel because of an increase in reported cases after 1990.

Since the TORCH test is a screening or first-level test, the pediatrician may order tests of other body fluids or tissues to confirm the diagnosis of a specific infection.

His love cheated on him and left him - and he carried a torch for her until he finally stopped loving her on the day he died.

Their father fought the Dark One and left his children to carry the torch.

It took all her strength to shove the hefty door wide enough for her to enter the dark chamber beyond that was lit by a single torch.

Torch in hand, her sorrowing mother sought her through the wide world, and finding her not she forbade the earth to put forth its increase.

The growth of the anti-Masonic movement was due to the political and social conditions of the time rather than to the Morgan episode, which was merely the torch that ignited the train.

Those of 1735, 1762, 1780 and 1791 have been mentioned; those of 1817, 1832, 1859 and 1904-1905 were no less powerful, and their history is interwoven with Calvinistic Methodism, the system of which is so admirably adapted for the passing on of the torch.

He relied in fact upon a domestic explosion, and the armada The Great was only to be the torch.

His attributes are the bow and arrows and a burning torch.

Liberty is a gigantic figure of a woman in Greek draperies, holding in her right hand a torch....

A spiral stairway leads from the base of this pedestal to the torch.

So he had his engineers take a chainsaw and welding torch to a sedan; the next day he was driving around in a convertible.

You can use a basic blow torch, but be sure you have extra pieces of bamboo in case you make mistakes!

Heat the bamboo pieces slowly and treat them with several passes of the torch to achieve a rich, dark brown patina.

At 18, he toured with the stage production of Torch Song Trilogy.

She was one of the bearers of the 2004 Summer Olympics Torch Relay.

Torch lights illuminate from a different level than the ground lighting.

The technique of hand forming glass beads is known as lamp or flame working and rods of glass are heated in the flame of a torch until molten and then formed into shapes.

If you encounter pathways blocked by spiderwebs, you can burn them with your torch.

Give a gourmet basket that includes a bottle of wine - Select foods and wines that pair well together, such as a Sauternes, a crème brulee mix, brulee torch and a ramekins or a wine and cheese pairing.

It has since been followed up by such BlackBerry smartphones as the BlackBerry Pearl 9100, BlackBerry Bold 9780, and BlackBerry Torch 9800.

The TORCH test, sometimes called the TORCH panel, belongs to a category of blood tests called infectious-disease antibody titers.

The TORCH test screens for the presence of IgM antibodies, and the titer determines their concentration in the blood.

A TORCH test is performed to help screen for certain virus infections in infants who may have been exposed to a causative organism.

The five groups of disease-causing organisms whose antibodies are measured by the TORCH test are grouped together because they can cause a cluster of symptomatic birth defects in newborns.

This group of defects is sometimes called the TORCH syndrome.