torrent
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[1601] From French torrent
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torrent (plural torrents)
- A large amount of something, especially water or rain; a heavy stream or flow.
- Rain fell on the hills in torrents.
- They endured a torrent of inquiries.
- A torrent of green and white water broke over the hull of the sail-boat.
- 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, 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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From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent).
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torrent (plural torrents)
- (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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torrent (third-person singular simple present torrents, present participle torrenting, simple past and past participle torrented)
- (Internet slang, transitive) To download in a torrent.
- The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
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From Latin torrens
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torrent m. (plural torrents)
- A torrent
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torrent
- third-person plural present active indicative of torreō
