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# torrent

«torrent» in Mova's school dictionary: **a fast, strong rush of water, like a stream in flood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural torrents)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A torrent is a fast, strong rush of water, like a stream in flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrent/#m1)

2) A torrent of something is a great flow of it: a torrent of words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrent/#m2)

3) «In torrents» means pouring very heavily, as rain does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrent/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, torrents of rain pour down during a storm, so the rain seems to fall in a rushing flood

### examples

- The rain was falling in torrents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrent/#x1)
- Torrents of water poured down the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrent/#x2)
- A torrent of questions came from the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrent/#x3)
- The river became a torrent after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/torrent/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; a torrent is a flow of water, not a counted amount, though «torrents» is plural.

### Trees and pragmatics

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