Tra từ torch - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

torch [torch torches torched torching] noun, verb BrE [tɔːtʃ] NAmE [tɔːrtʃ]
noun
1. (BrE) (also flash·light NAmE, BrE)a small electric lamp that uses batteries and that you can hold in your hand
•Shine the torch on the lock while I try to get the key in.
2. (NAmE) = ↑blowtorch
3. a long piece of wood that has material at one end that is set on fire and that people carry to give light
•a flaming torch
•the Olympic torch
• (figurative)They struggled to keep the torch of idealism and hope alive.
more at carry a torch for sb at ↑carry

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French torche, from Latin torqua, variant of torques ‘necklace, wreath’, from torquere ‘to twist’. The current verb sense was originally US slang and dates from the 1930s.

Example Bank:
•I shone my torch through the crack.
•I'm ready to pass the torch on to the next generation.
•Servants were carrying lighted torches.
•The path to the castle was lit by blazing torches.
•The path was lit by blazing torches.
•The policeman flashed his torch over the men's faces.
•The torch flickered and went out.
•The torches were burning fiercely.
•They lit their torches from the fire.
•We struggled to read the map by the light of the torch.
•Supporters carried flaming torches to welcome him.
•The Olympic torch will arrive next month.
Idiom: ↑put something to the torch

verb ~ sth
to set fire to a building or vehicle deliberately in order to destroy it
•The houses had been looted and then torched.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French torche, from Latin torqua, variant of torques ‘necklace, wreath’, from torquere ‘to twist’. The current verb sense was originally US slang and dates from the 1930s.

Example Bank:
•All the shops on the street had been looted and torched.
•Rioters threw bottles at police and torched a number of cars.

See also: ↑flashlight