English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key): /ˈtɒɹ.ənt/
- (General American)IPA(key): /ˈtɔɹ.ənt/
- (NYC)IPA(key): /ˈtɑɹ.ənt/
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Directed by Monta Bell. With Ricardo Cortez, Greta Garbo, Gertrude Olmstead, Edward Connelly. A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After more than 16 years, The Pirate Bay remains afloat. After suffering substantial. TorrentFreak is a publication dedicated to bringing the latest news about copyright, privacy, and everything related to filesharing.
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Frenchtorrent, from Italiantorrente, from Latintorrentem, accusative of torrēns(“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latintorrēre(“to parch, scorch”).
Noun[edit]
torrent (pluraltorrents)
- A violentflow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
- 1841, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Excelsior
- The roaring torrent is deep and wide.
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
- A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.
- 1841, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Excelsior
- (figurative) A large amount or stream of something.
- 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:
- A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, / The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor ...
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Adjective[edit]
torrent (comparativemore torrent, superlativemost torrent)
- Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons],[…], ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…], 1873, :
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Etymology 2[edit]
From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (
.torrent
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torrent (pluraltorrents)
- (Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.
- I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.
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Verb[edit]
torrent (third-person singular simple presenttorrents, present participletorrenting, simple past and past participletorrented)
- (Internetslang,transitive) To download in a torrent.
- The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
- 2009, Rick Dakan, Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues, page 38:
- They had two thousand CDs burned with Listnin loaded on them, including versions for every major phone OS, and they'd set up a dozen servers in seven different countries for people to torrent the file from.
Derived terms[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Noun[edit]
torrentm (pluraltorrents)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italiantorrente, from Latintorrens.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
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Noun[edit]
torrentm (pluraltorrents)
- A torrent
Descendants[edit]
- → English: torrent
- → Romanian: torent
Further reading[edit]
- “torrent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
torrent
- third-personpluralpresentactiveindicative of torreō
Welsh[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- torren(colloquial)
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔrɛnt/
Verb[edit]
torrent
- (literary)third-personpluralimperfect/conditional of torri
- (literary)third-personpluralimperative of torri
Mutation[edit]
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
torrent | dorrent | nhorrent | thorrent |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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Torrent or torrents may refer to:
- A fast flowing stream
Animals[edit]
- Torrent duck, a species of the family Anatidae
- Torrent frog, various unrelated frogs
- Torrent robin, a bird species
- Torrent salamander, a family of salamanders
Utorrent Pro
Arts and entertainment[edit]
- Torrent (1926 film), starring Greta Garbo
- The Torrent (1921 film), film directed by Stuart Paton
- The Torrent (1924 film), film directed by William Doner and A. P. Younger
- The Torrent (Le Torrent), 2012 Canadian film directed by Simon Lavoie
- The Torrents, a 1955 Australian play
- Torrent (play) (狂流, Kuángliú), a Chinese play about the life of Tian Han
- Torrent (TV series), a technology show
Computing[edit]
- BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol
- Torrent file, stores metadata used for BitTorrent
Corporations[edit]
- Torrent Group, an Indian business house, and its subsidiary companies:
People[edit]
- Ana Torrent (born 1966), Spanish actress
- Domènec Torrent (born 1962), Spanish professional football manager
- Marion Torrent (born 1992), French footballer
- Ramon Torrents (born 1937), Spanish comic book artist
- Stanislas Torrents (1839–1916), French painter
Places[edit]
- Torrent, Valencia, a city in Spain
- Torrent, Girona, a Spanish village
- Torrent Bay, New Zealand
- Torrent Falls, an outdoor area in Kentucky, United States
- Torrent River, which feeds into the bay
- River Torrent, Northern Ireland
Vehicles[edit]
- Pontiac Torrent, a crossover SUV automobile by GM's Pontiac from 2005 to 2009
- Torrent (ship), an American sailing ship wrecked in 1868
Torrents
Other uses[edit]
- Les Torrents, the sports teams of the Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Uweb Torrent
See also[edit]
Pirate Bay Torrent
- Torrentz, a meta-search engine for BitTorrent
Utorrent Apk
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