torch
1. a light usually carried in the hand;
consists of some flammable substance (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
light, light source
• Hyponyms:
flambeau
2. a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
• Syn:
flashlight
• Hypernyms:
electric lamp
• Hyponyms:
penlight
• Part Meronyms:
flashlight battery
3. a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
• Syn:
blowtorch, blowlamp
• Hypernyms:
burner
• Hyponyms:
oxyacetylene torch
4. tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers;
ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
• Syn:
common mullein, great mullein, Aaron's rod, flannel mullein, woolly mullein, Verbascum thapsus
• Hypernyms:
mullein, flannel leaf, velvet plant
burn maliciously, as by arson
- The madman torched the barns
• Hypernyms:
burn, fire, burn down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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