English[edit]
UTorrent is an efficient BitTorrent client for Windows from the originator of the BitTorrent protocol. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in uTorrent, including. The Best Torrent Search Engine on the net alternative to Torrentz.eu! Contact; Torrentz is a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines. Indexing 31,102,502 active torrents from 125,464,743 pages on 26 domains. What are the most-visited and working torrent sites at the start of 2020? As we do our best to continue a long-standing top 10 tradition, we see that The Pirate Bay is the favorite among. (60199 votes) Free Download. Compact BitTorrent free client with. 11 synonyms of torrent from the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, plus 30 related words, definitions, and antonyms. Find another word for torrent.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key): /ˈtɒɹ.ənt/
- (General American)IPA(key): /ˈtɔɹ.ənt/
- (NYC)IPA(key): /ˈtɑɹ.ənt/
Audio (US)
Etymology 1[edit]
From Frenchtorrent, from Italiantorrente, from Latintorrentem, accusative of torrēns(“burning, seething, roaring”), from Latintorrēre(“to parch, scorch”).
Noun[edit]
torrent (pluraltorrents)
Torrentz
- 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
).
Noun[edit]
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]
Utorrent Search
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.
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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. |