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How to pronounce “torch”
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Pronunciation guide for torch
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of torch with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- My Life on the Road
who are you passing the torch to, right?
- Definition summary
- A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce torch
My Life on the Road
who are you passing the torch to, right?
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “torch”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
- (by extension, botany)
- (figurative)
- (science fiction) Ellipsis of torch drive (“a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion”).
- (chiefly Canada, US) Ellipsis of blowtorch (“a tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame”).
- (US, slang) An arsonist.
- [Verb]
- (transitive)
- (intransitive)
Practice Nearby Words
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