What's the difference between torchwood and touchwood?
Torchwood
Definition:
(n.) The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the intervening years he has worked mostly for the BBC, creating the mini-series Casanova, starring the future Time Lord David Tennant, and the Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
(2) We have surprised audiences with different points of views and experiences – The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Indian Doctor, Lip Service and, for the aliens amongst us, Torchwood.
(3) The BBC's third series of Torchwood ended on Friday 10 July, winning its slot for the fifth night running with 5.8 million viewers and a 27% share, according to unofficial overnight figures.
(4) In the 9pm slot, the fourth episode of Torchwood increased the momentum it had built all week, attracting more than six million viewers for the first time since Monday.
(5) After all, he did take Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood from BBC3.
(6) It easily won its slot, beating BBC1's Torchwood: Miracle Day, which picked up 3.4 million viewers, a 14% share, and ITV1 cop drama Single-Handed, which drew 2.8 million viewers (11.4%).
(7) A BBC spokesman denied Torchwood was being "punished", saying the BBC1 controller, Jay Hunt, and the controller of drama commissioning, Ben Stephenson, wanted to create an "event" to launch the show on the channel, with the new series due to be shown at 9pm every weeknight next week.
(8) Torchwood drew 900,000 viewers on BBC3 from 10pm, losing out to Sky One's Lost.
(9) He was also the first controller of BBC3, where he commissioned Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh, Torchwood and Gavin and Stacey.
(10) In 2006, Torchwood's launch episode on BBC3 and the first instalment of Sky1's Terry Pratchett adaptation Hogfather each attracted a live audience of 2.4 million viewers .
(11) This was also BBC3's biggest ever audience, beating the 2.4 million who tuned in for the launch of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in October 2006 .
(12) Gay characters in TV dramas are now more commonplace, from Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood (Russell T Davies again) and Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks to US drama Brothers and Sisters and Netflix's acclaimed prison series Orange Is the New Black.
(13) BBC Worldwide said the top-selling programme brands in the year to the end of March were Top Gear, Doctor Who, Frozen Planet, Torchwood, Spooks, Sherlock, Planet Earth and Natural World.
(14) As a fan of Doctor Who and Torchwood, I asked if Cardiff had its own team.
(15) In a recent interview, Russell T Davies, saviour of Doctor Who and creator of Torchwood, argued provocatively that the rise and fall of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent was, whatever moral concerns it raises, the greatest drama of the year and challenges the makers of fiction to come up with stories that engage the public and the media at such a level.
(16) Little Dorrit and Torchwood actor Eve Myles will also play what ITV says is a "central role" in Broadchurch, while Blandings and Bad Education's Phoebe Waller-Bridge is also joining the cast.
(17) Writer Chris Chibnall, whose previous scripts include Life on Mars, Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood, said his influences stretch back further than that to the 1990s US cop show Murder One and David Lynch's Twin Peaks.
(18) And BBC America, who show Torchwood, are furious that we've changed the format.
(19) Last year, BBC3's Torchwood launched with 2.4 million viewers, and the first part of Sky One's Hogfather attracted the same audience just before Christmas.
(20) He points to such well-received offerings as Freefall, Occupation, Torchwood and The Street (although, for non-BBC reasons, the latter show will not return for another series).
Touchwood
Definition:
(n.) Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.
(n.) Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.
Example Sentences:
(1) I did a free app called TouchWood [it made the screen look like wood and made a sound when you knocked on it].