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Meaning of torch

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  torch
      n 1: a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some
           flammable substance
      2: 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},
         {torch}, {Verbascum thapsus}]
      3: a small portable battery-powered electric lamp [syn:
         {flashlight}, {torch}]
      4: a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame
         [syn: {blowtorch}, {torch}, {blowlamp}]
      v 1: burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the
           barns"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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