What's the difference between torch and torchlight?

Torch


Definition:

  • (n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
  • (n.) A flashlight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
  • (2) Some of the TORCH tests are not accurate and should be avoided.
  • (3) This study compared soldering by a conventional torch procedure with an infrared soldering technique.
  • (4) In this review, the diagnostic problems encountered in the evaluation of a suspected perinatal infection have been discussed, as have the complexities of the evaluation process for the original four TORCH agents, as well as for three additional agents.
  • (5) What his death may mark, in fact, is the passing of the al-Qaida torch from one generation of militants to another.
  • (6) These skin lesions are not specific of leukemia and other diagnoses should be considered including histiocytosis, neuroblastoma, and skin erythropoiesis (in Torch syndrome, hemolytic disease of the newborn, hereditary spherocytosis, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome).
  • (7) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
  • (8) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
  • (9) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
  • (10) The importance of seroprevalence of the TORCH group of agents and syphilis on perinatal morbidity and mortality in Jamaican women is discussed, and appropriate recommendations for prevention and control of congenital infections in Jamaica are suggested.
  • (11) The experiment must equally succeed as a torch showing the way forward not only for an enlarging European Community, but also to the ever increasing interest in global harmonization of drug regulation.
  • (12) She took part in the Olympic torch relay and though she never met Mao, "Chairman Hu" – as she calls the Chinese president – visited her recently.
  • (13) But later protesters pulled down security cameras, smashed bus stops and torched cars.
  • (14) A few even said that Sunday’s looting and torching of a QuikTrip gas station near the scene of Brown’s killing should be interpreted as an attack on all outsider-owned businesses, which would continue.
  • (15) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
  • (16) In this study about melting and torchs employed in solder in fixed prosthodontics, it's analysed the accurate melting, adequate quantity, as well as protection of adjacent tissues with an accurate anti-melting.
  • (17) In the evenings the men's bodies were covered in toxic mercury deposits, left by the process of mining and washing the gold; they burned them off with a blow torch.
  • (18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
  • (19) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
  • (20) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.

Torchlight


Definition:

  • (n.) The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Taking as a starting point the American painter Alice Neel’s prophetic 1936 painting, Nazis Murder Jews , which depicts a Communist party torchlight parade through the streets of New York City, it collects new and recent pieces that address in different ways our own disorienting political moment.
  • (2) None of the unnamed men, who had to work by torchlight, are still at the site: some have retired, but most had to leave because they quickly reached their lifetime radiation dose limit.
  • (3) Biswas said 53 poor and low-caste women were rounded up and sterilised in operations carried out by torchlight that left three bleeding profusely and led to one woman who was three months pregnant miscarrying.
  • (4) From the rock we could see torchlights and small fires.
  • (5) "Mister Fox", the pseudonym of a well-spoken anti-cull activist in his 40s, can barely speak after three nights' stumbling by torchlight along the footpaths of Somerset in search of for badgers – dead or alive.
  • (6) On Saturday some voters cast their ballot in the dark and at many polling stations the count was started by torchlight or in the glow of mobile phones.
  • (7) We teeter back along the coast to the hostel by torchlight, and a few fellow guests decide to extend their stay en route.
  • (8) Indeed, the moral torchlight is shone on the odious Mr Collins when he tells Mr Bennet to "throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to repay the fruits of her own heinous offence".
  • (9) Justin Kavanagh notes: "That's two seasons in a row that Messi has made Almunia look like a cat trying to pounce on a torchlight."
  • (10) Chilling footage has emerged of “war zone”-like scenes during last week’s unrest at the Manus Island detention centre, showing dozens of asylum seekers – most unconscious or semiconscious and many with serious injuries – receiving treatment from frantic staff tending to them by torchlight.
  • (11) When a power cut turned off the lights in the capital, Abuja, undaunted electoral officers continued counting votes using torchlights .

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