Torch Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This article is about torches. For the German rapper Torch, see Torch (rapper).

Originally, a torch was a portable source of fire used as a source of light, usually a rod-shaped piece of wood with a rag soaked in pitch or some other flammable material wrapped around one end.

The torch is a common emblem of enlightenment. Thus the Statue of Liberty, actually "Liberty Enlightening the World" lifts her torch. Crossed reversed torches were signs of mourning that appear on Greek and Roman funerary monuments. In England in the first half of the twentieth century a torch was used as the road sign indicating a school.

A torch carried in relay by cross-country runners is used to light the Olympic flame which burns without interruption until the following Olympics.

In modern British English, a torch is an electrical flashlight.

In construction usage, a torch is a hot flame, usually fueled by oxygen and acetylene, that is used for either cutting or welding metals, particularly iron and steel. For example, blowtorch, cutting torch, or welding torch, see gas welding.

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