A light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance.

Roget 388: fuel, firing, combustible.    [solid fuels] coal, wallsend^†, anthracite, culm^†, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder etc. (products of combustion) 384; ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou^†, bavin^†; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U.S.]; solid fueled rocket.    [fuels for candles and lamps] wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp oil, whale oil.    [liquid fuels] oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice [Coll.], gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.    [gaseous fuels] natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen.    brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve^†, vesuvian, vesta^†, fusee, locofoco^†; linstock^†.    candle etc. (luminary) 423; oil etc. (grease) 356.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: pochodnia

Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches.

synoniemen: Aaron's rod, common mullein, flannel mullein, great mullein, Verbascum thapsus, woolly mullein.

Pools: dziewanna drobnokwiatowa

A small portable battery-powered electric lamp.

synoniem: flashlight.

Roget 423: luminary; light etc. 420; flame etc. (fire) 382.    spark, scintilla; phosphorescence, fluorescence.    sun, orb of day, Phoebus, Apollo^†, Aurora; star, orb; meteor, falling star, shooting star; blazing star, dog star, Sirius; canicula, Aldebaran^†; constellation, galaxy; zodiacal light; anthelion^†; day star, morning star; Lucifer; mock sun, parhelion; phosphor, phosphorus; sun dog^†; Venus.    aurora, polar lights; northern lights, aurora borealis; southern lights, aurora australis.    lightning; chain lightning, fork lightning, sheet lightning, summer lightning; ball lightning, kugelblitz [G.]; [chemical substances giving off light without burning] phosphorus, yellow phosphorus; scintillator, phosphor; firefly luminescence.    ignis fatuus [Lat.]; Jack o'lantern, Friar's lantern; will-o'-the-wisp, firedrake^†, Fata Morgana [Lat.]; Saint Elmo's fire.    [luminous insects] glowworm, firefly, June bug, lightning bug.    [luminous fish] anglerfish.    [Artificial light] gas; gas light, lime light, lantern, lanthorn^†; dark lantern, bull's-eye; candle, bougie [Fr.], taper, rushlight; oil etc. (grease) 356; wick, burner; Argand^†, moderator, duplex; torch, flambeau, link, brand; gaselier^†, chandelier, electrolier^†, candelabrum, candelabra, girandole^†, sconce, luster, candlestick.    [non-combustion based light sources] lamp, light; incandescent lamp, tungsten bulb, light bulb; flashlight, torch [Brit.]; arc light; laser; [microwave radiation]; maser neon bulb, neon sign; fluorescent lamp.    [parts of a light bulb] filament; socket; contacts; filler gas.    firework, fizgig^†; pyrotechnics; rocket, lighthouse etc. (signal) 550.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: fakkel, zaklamp
Pools: latarka

A burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame.

synoniemen: blowlamp, blowtorch.

Nederlands: steekvlam, soldeerlamp, fakkel

Burn maliciously, as by arson.