English-Swedish translations for torch

• fackla en
  – Herr talman! De brinnande bilarna i Frankrike har fungerat som en fackla, och visat att det förekommer diskriminering och social utslagning.Mr President, the burning cars in France have acted like a torch, revealing the presence of discrimination and social exclusion.
  Där som Portugal fram tills för en kort tid sedan var tvunget att bära denna fackla nästan ensamt sluter nu Europeiska unionen i sin helhet upp bakom den östtimoresiska strävan efter oberoende.Whereas up until recently Portugal was practically the only country to carry this torch, now all the countries of the European Union are rallying behind the East Timorese struggle for independence.
• bloss ett
• ficklampa en
  Jag håller med Graham Watson, utan vilken vi inte skulle ha nått så långt, att vi har fått en stark blåslampa att använda för handlingarna, i stället för den ficklampa vi haft tidigare.I agree with Mr Watson - without whom we should not have come so far - that we have obtained a powerful searchlight to use on documents, instead of the pocket torch we had previously.
• sätta eld på
• tända eld på

Definition of torch

• A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material
• A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight
• An arsonist
• To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick

Examples

• The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampires castle.
• Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.
• Some hoodlums had torched a derelict automobile, which emitted a ghastly pall of thick, black smoke that filled the street.

Related words

• blowtorch
• cryptorchidism
• headtorch
• torchecul
• torchlight
• torchbearer
• torchwood
• cryptorchism
• torchiere