Definition, Betydelse & Anagram | Engelska ordet TORCHES

Definition av TORCHES

1. böjningsform av torch

Exempel på hur man kan använda TORCHES i en mening

• Hecate is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied.
• The ancient Greeks used a coded alphabetic system of signalling with torches developed by Cleoxenus, Democleitus and Polybius.
• She was once a woman who lived upon the Earth at a time when it was eternally dark, and people could only move about with the aid of bark torches.
• They lived in permanent cedar-plank lodges, illuminated at night with torches or by burning fish heads or whale oil.
• Optical telegraphy dates from ancient times, in the form of hydraulic telegraphs, torches (as used by ancient cultures since the discovery of fire) and smoke signals.
• However, historical writings, documents, and newspaper reports indicate that the axle was taken back to "the yard" of the Chicago House Wrecking Company, and was eventually cut up for scrap when oxy-acetylene torches improved enough to cut the hardened steel.
• With the discovery of fire, the earliest form of artificial lighting used to illuminate an area were campfires or torches.
• Its most common use is in the pyrophoric ferrocerium "flint" ignition device of many lighters and torches, although an alloy of only rare-earth elements would be too soft to give good sparks.
• The legend of the resemblance of the three is said to stem from an onslaught of ball lightning on May 31, 1231, when the three shone like identical torches.
• His funeral and burial on 22 June at Thetford Priory were said to have been "spectacular and enormously expensive, costing over £1300 and including a procession of 400 hooded men bearing torches and an elaborate bier surmounted with 100 wax effigies and 700 candles", befitting the richest and most powerful peer in England.
• Suetonius gives four possible explanations of this surname: that the first of the family burnt a town he had besieged, using torches smeared with galbanum, a type of gum; or that, chronically ill, he made regular use of a type of remedy wrapped in wool, known as galbeum; or that galba was a Gallic word for someone very fat; or instead that he resembled a galba, a grub or caterpillar.
• Looters and arsonists were reported to have spread the flames by throwing torches or, acting in groups, hindering measures being made to halt or slow the progress of the flames.
• Other important historic uses included coating earthenware vessels for the preservation of wine, waterproofing wooden containers, and making torches.
• On waking up, he was pleased with this omen, he founded the city with outlines in the form of a ship mapped out according to the placement of the torches, about which he had dreamt.
• Boxes of ammo allow players to fire bullets at objects, gems increase health and are used as currency, torches light up a small area around the player in dark boards, and colored keys allow players to open same-colored doors.
• Downley traditions include the Guy Fawkes Night torch parade, where literally hundreds of people march up the common with tin can torches and throw then into the bonfire.
• Inmates were brutally butchered, dismembered, burned alive with torches and hung up in the cell house for display.
• The later Gravettian occupation, which occurred 27,000 to 25,000 years ago, left little but a child's footprints, the charred remains of ancient hearths, and carbon smoke stains from torches that lit the caves.
• The following signs are a foul and musky “death-like” odor, and torches getting brighter and brighter as the night marchers get closer.
• Probst keeps the snuffer that he uses to snuff the torches when a contestant is voted out of the game as a souvenir after every season of Survivor.

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