Word Finder - torrent

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A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

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A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.

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A large amount or stream of something.

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They endured a torrent of inquiries.

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Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

She faced the windows, watching the torrent outside.

Several days of unseasonable melt had boiled the river to a noisy torrent of cascading water.

For nearly its entire length it is an impetuous torrent running through a succession of gorges.

The rainfall on the west very much exceeds that on the east, and the Periyar used to find its way by a short torrent course to the sea, rendering no service to mankind.

Another argument is that of Professor von Morlot, based on a railway section through a conical accumulation of gravel and alluvium, which the torrent of the Tiniere has gradually built up where it enters the Lake of Geneva near Villeneuve.

In the midst of the torrent of his most strenuous and passionate deliverances, he suddenly rises aloof from his immediate subject, and in all tranquillity reminds us of some permanent relation of things, some enduring truth of human life or human society.

Many of the factories derive their motive power from the falls of a mountain torrent known as the Salto de las Aguas.

But all routes are difficult, winding between granite and limestone rocks, and abounding in narrow defiles and rugged torrent beds.

It is true that the use of glass for windows was only gradually extending itself at the time when Roman civilization sank under the torrent of German and Hunnish barbarism, and that its employment for optical instruments was only known in a rudimentary stage; but for domestic purposes, for architectural decoration and for personal ornaments glass was unquestionably much more used than at the present day.

One and a half mile from Altdorf by the Klausen road is the village of Burglen, where by tradition Tell was born; while he is also said to have lost his life, while saving that of a child, in the Schachen torrent that flows past the village.

Its mountains are insufficient in elevation and extent to attract their full share of the monsoon rains, which fall so abundantly on the Abyssinian highlands on the other side of the Red Sea; for this reason Arabia has neither lakes nor forests to control the water-supply and prevent its too rapid dissipation, and the rivers are mere torrent beds sweeping down occasionally in heavy floods, but otherwise dry.

After the overthrow of the Scottish accomplices in this notable project, Mary poured forth upon Elizabeth a torrent of pathetic and eloquent reproach for the many wrongs she had suffered at the hands of her hostess, and pledged her honour to the assurance that she now aspired to no kingdom but that of heaven.

It is almost immediately joined on the left by the Mutt torrent, coming from a small glacier to the S.E., and then flows S.W.

Carmen stared at the raging torrent.

Electric furnaces are at an advantage over others as regards the removal of sulphur and of iron oxide from the molten steel, because their atmosphere is free from the sulphur always present in the flame of coal-fired furnaces, and almost free from oxygen, because this element is quickly absorbed by the carbon and silicon of the steel, and in the case of arc furnaces by the carbon of the electrodes themselves, and is replaced only very slowly by leakage, whereas through the Bessemer converter and the open-hearth furnace a torrent of air is always rushing.

Here all is rock, gorge, almost inaccessible mountain, precipice and torrent, while over or along all these rude features of nature are drawn countless lines of stone walls by which man makes or supports the soil in which the vines find their subsistence..

From this point to Reyes the river is a torrent.

The town is finely situated overlooking the Vienne and a small torrent, and has two interesting Romanesque churches, both restored in modern times.

Sometimes the storm had burst over Gaul, and there had been need of a Marius to stem the torrent of Cimbri and Teutons, or of a Caesar to drive back the Helvetians into their mountains.

The speed of its course was like a mountain torrent.

Built on the left bank of the Adige, in the widest portion of the Val Lagarina (the name given to the Adige valley from Acquaviva, above Rovereto, to the Italian frontier), it is divided into two parts by the Leno torrent.

The court was surrounded with arcades, all of which constituted the prayer chamber, so that its plan is necessarily different to the normal type; the existing buildings date only from the first half of the 17th century, as the whole mosque was destroyed by a torrent in 1626.

This river, which, at ordinary times, was little more than an ill-smelling brook at one side of an immense bed, was occasionally converted into a formidable and destructive torrent.

The coalition, and Fox in particular, were assailed in a torrent of most telling invective and caricature.

It issues as a torrent, at the height of 5909 ft., from the great Rhone glacier at the head of the Valais, the recent retreat of this glacier having proved that the river really flows from beneath it, and does not take its rise from the warm springs that are now at some distance from its shrunken snout.

Then at the beginning of the 5th century, during a furious irruption of Germans fleeing before Huns, the limes was carried away (406407); and for more than a hundred years the torrent of fugitives swept through the Empire, which retreated behind the Alps, there to breathe its last.

Bossuet, Louis XIV.s mouthpiece, triumphed in his turn over the quietism of Madame Guyon, a mystic who recognized neither definite dogmas nor formal prayers, but abandoned herself to the torrent of the forces of God.

In its upper course the Benue is a mountain torrent falling over 2000 ft.

The belief that the torrent, almost dry except after rains, which flows by Caravan bridge, is the ancient Meles, flatly contradicts the ancient descriptions.

One of these, called the "Bourne," bursts forth a short way above the town at irregular intervals of one to ten years or more; and after running a torrent for two or three months, as quickly vanishes.

A fortnight later they again met in Switzerland, and together measured the rise of the temperature of the water in a mountain torrent due to its fall.

This pipe, called a penstock, ranged from forty-four inches down to two feet in diameter and paralleled the Uncompahgre River far above its torrent as it coursed down the deep gorge.

He paused, leaning against a concrete abutment, mesmerized by the never-ending torrent as it flowed over the edge of the dam.

I now seem to be borne along on the tide of a tempestuous torrent, through rocky defiles and beneath frowning precipices.

What does however is the torrent of abuse that welcomed Hoddle whenever he left the dugout to direct proceedings on the pitch.

When they first met McVeigh subjected Fr Smith to a torrent of racist abuse and threw excrement at him.

In other words, all was quiet at the bottom of the torrent moss world, despite the storm of rushing water overhead.

On the mainland a torrent of water descending the mountainside above Cwm Idwal was seen from here.

Instead she emits a bloodcurdling squeal, accompanied by a torrent of tears.

Pools pour forth a cool torrent of living water.

A torrent file is just a small file with some text in which gives torrent clients the details it needs.

Does anyone know how I can create a bit torrent file without the need for a tracker?

The CDs are shared on something called a " torrent tracker ".

One of the fastest and easiest ways to download free MP3 music is to make use of Bit Torrent search engines.

The Bit Torrent (sometimes combined as bittorrent or abbreviated as BT) system is one of the most expedient ways to download music online.

Before we proceed any further, it might be useful to describe what Bit Torrent is all about.

Fully one-half of its length is through the mountainous districts of central Bolivia, where it is fed by a large number of rivers and streams from the snowclad peaks, and may be described as a raging torrent.

After the passing of this torrent the Visigoths, under their kings Ataulphus, Wallia and Theodoric, still dazzled by the splendours of this immense empire, established themselves like submissive vassals in Aquitaine, with Toulouse as their capital.

It faces the Adriatic to the north, has the torrent Aprusa, now called Ausa, on the east and the river Marecchia on the west.

The confessions they offered add to the torrent of them from those who planned the Iraq war and then grossly mismanaged its searing aftermath.