Torrent
noun
A strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid.
Rain poured down in torrents.
Often appears as...
- torrents of rain
- torrents of water
noun
A suddenly, violently, or unceasingly flowing stream of something.
A torrent of abuse poured out of him
Often appears as...
- torrents of abuse
- torrents of words
noun
A file sent using the BitTorrent protocol (a way to share large files quickly over the internet).
I downloaded the latest album through a torrent
Often appears as...
- download a torrent
- torrent file
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Disapproving
noun
A strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid.
Rain poured down in torrents.
Often appears as...
- torrents of rain
- torrents of water
noun
A suddenly, violently, or unceasingly flowing stream of something.
A torrent of abuse poured out of him
Often appears as...
- torrents of abuse
- torrents of words
noun
A file sent using the BitTorrent protocol (a way to share large files quickly over the internet).
I downloaded the latest album through a torrent
Often appears as...
- download a torrent
- torrent file
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Natural Force
Used to describe powerful movements in nature, like water, to emphasize strength and speed.
The melting snow turned into a torrent cascading down the mountain.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Can be used metaphorically to describe abundant or uncontrolled situations.
After the concert announcement, the band received torrents of fan messages.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Implies an intense, often overwhelming, and uncontrolled flow of liquid.
During the storm, a torrent of water flooded the streets.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Force
Used to describe powerful movements in nature, like water, to emphasize strength and speed.
The melting snow turned into a torrent cascading down the mountain.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Can be used metaphorically to describe abundant or uncontrolled situations.
After the concert announcement, the band received torrents of fan messages.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Implies an intense, often overwhelming, and uncontrolled flow of liquid.
During the storm, a torrent of water flooded the streets.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Force
Used to describe powerful movements in nature, like water, to emphasize strength and speed.
The melting snow turned into a torrent cascading down the mountain.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Can be used metaphorically to describe abundant or uncontrolled situations.
After the concert announcement, the band received torrents of fan messages.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Implies an intense, often overwhelming, and uncontrolled flow of liquid.
During the storm, a torrent of water flooded the streets.
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Rachel Botsman: The case...
So all of this is a lot of twittering, right? Well it was a lot of noise and complexity in my head, until actually I realized it was happening because of four key drivers. One, a renewed belief in the importance of community, and a very redefinition of what friend and neighbor really means. A torrent of peer-to-peer social networks
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The joyful, perplexing...
and in that shift, you completely reframe all the information you've been given. The hardest part of construction for me is coming up with a great idea for an aha. Fortunately, the world is a torrent of ideas and information. I've seen fantastic puzzles constructed out of the waggle dances of bees,
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Sting: How I started...
as soon as I decided to honor the community I came from and tell their story, that the songs started to come thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices,
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Coal Mine Floods PIPE...
he's closest to the torrent but he's not the miner in most danger gravity dictates that water always heads to the lowest point the deepest part of the mine are the tunnels in the main shaft just over half a kilometre away
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Everything you need to...
and pour a torrent of light onto our dark world." Although he accomplishes something awe-inspiring, he has played with fire at his own ethical expense. And that decision echoes throughout the novel,
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The myth of Loki’s...
releasing a torrent of saliva that became a furious river. While the beast was not dead, he was bound, and Odin celebrated his victory over fate. But in truth, his actions had only sealed his doom.
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Advocating for gender...
countries neither peace nor pause in fact every significant ambassador at the United Nations was lobbied in his or her office often more than once with a torrent of material and a cacophony of
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What will humans look...
So as a great physicist once said, there's these little upstream eddies of biology that create order in this rapid torrent of entropy. So as the universe dissipates energy,
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Doomsday Preppers
there's all kinds of dangers earthquake catastrophic collapse of all torrents trucks GM pairs the end of the world as we know it
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Dinosaur Massacre PIPE...
Severe monsoon rains have transformed shallow rivers into lethal torrents.
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Rachel Botsman: The case...
So all of this is a lot of twittering, right? Well it was a lot of noise and complexity in my head, until actually I realized it was happening because of four key drivers. One, a renewed belief in the importance of community, and a very redefinition of what friend and neighbor really means. A torrent of peer-to-peer social networks
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The joyful, perplexing...
and in that shift, you completely reframe all the information you've been given. The hardest part of construction for me is coming up with a great idea for an aha. Fortunately, the world is a torrent of ideas and information. I've seen fantastic puzzles constructed out of the waggle dances of bees,
Video examples
Sting: How I started...
as soon as I decided to honor the community I came from and tell their story, that the songs started to come thick and fast. I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices,
Video examples
Coal Mine Floods PIPE...
he's closest to the torrent but he's not the miner in most danger gravity dictates that water always heads to the lowest point the deepest part of the mine are the tunnels in the main shaft just over half a kilometre away
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Everything you need to...
and pour a torrent of light onto our dark world." Although he accomplishes something awe-inspiring, he has played with fire at his own ethical expense. And that decision echoes throughout the novel,
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The myth of Loki’s...
releasing a torrent of saliva that became a furious river. While the beast was not dead, he was bound, and Odin celebrated his victory over fate. But in truth, his actions had only sealed his doom.
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
countries neither peace nor pause in fact every significant ambassador at the United Nations was lobbied in his or her office often more than once with a torrent of material and a cacophony of
Video examples
What will humans look...
So as a great physicist once said, there's these little upstream eddies of biology that create order in this rapid torrent of entropy. So as the universe dissipates energy,
Video examples
Doomsday Preppers
there's all kinds of dangers earthquake catastrophic collapse of all torrents trucks GM pairs the end of the world as we know it
Video examples
Dinosaur Massacre PIPE...
Severe monsoon rains have transformed shallow rivers into lethal torrents.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Todd Gitlin
American Sociologist
The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spanish Philosopher
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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James L. Petigru
American Public Servant
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
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Mary Shelley
English Author
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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Shana Alexander
American Journalist
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
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Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
To be honest, it's not really hard to run a torrent site, or set one up.
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Theocritus
Greek Poet
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
French Lawyer
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Todd Gitlin
American Sociologist
The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spanish Philosopher
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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James L. Petigru
American Public Servant
If one has not influence to stem the torrent of popular delusion he is reduced to the melancholy part of a spectator in the midst of the ruin.
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Mary Shelley
English Author
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
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Shana Alexander
American Journalist
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
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Peter Sunde
Swedish Businessman
To be honest, it's not really hard to run a torrent site, or set one up.
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Theocritus
Greek Poet
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
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