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# torchlight

«torchlight» in Mova's school dictionary: **the light from a torch** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (torchlight — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Torchlight is the light from a torch. In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand a torch is a battery light you hold (a flashlight in the USA). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#m1)

2) In history and stories, torchlight is the light of burning sticks or flaming torches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it sets a scene: in a cave, at night, at a castle or a procession. Phrases: by torchlight, in the torchlight, a torchlight procession.

### examples

- We read comics under the covers by torchlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#x1)
- The castle hall flickered in the torchlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#x2)
- The cave walls glittered in the torchlight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#x3)
- The villagers held a torchlight procession. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#x4)
- By torchlight, we found the path back to the tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#x5)
- In the torchlight, the shadows looked like monsters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#x6)
- They took place by torchlight, and were conducted with the greatest solemnity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no plural. UK torch = US flashlight; a flaming torch is a stick with fire at the end. American readers may picture flames rather than a battery light.

### In the corpora

- [They eat tea by torchlight, which is an adventure until Lorcan gets cold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/488-the-electric-meter-the-food-bank-and-we-cant-afford-it/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «torchlight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torchlight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.