torcherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈtɔɹt͡ʃɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɔːt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
• Homophone: torture
• ハイフネーション: torch‧er

名詞

torcher (plural torchers)

1. One who torches something.

   The torchers of buildings must be dealt with.

2. (obsolete) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 162:

     Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring
     Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, […]

3. (music) A torch song
   • 1988 August 26, Neil Tesser, “Montgomery, Plant & Stritch”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     […] their set includes a Patsy Cline torcher and reaches some sort of peak with a 29-song Irving Berlin medley.

4. (music) A singer of a torch song
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, chapter 20, in The Big Sleep, New York: Knopf:

     What did the girl do before she married Eddie Mars?
     Torcher.
     Can’t you get any old professional photos?

5. (science fiction) The pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).

参照

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2026), “torcher, n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.