Definizione monolingua

torrent

torrent (third-person singular simple present torrents, present participle torrenting, simple past and past participle torrented)

1. (Internet slang, transitive) To download in a torrent.

   The video rental place didnt have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.

torrent (plural torrents)

1. 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 ...

Definizione dizionario torrent

	acquata
	An extreme heavy shower.

torrent

torrente

Altri significati:

A large amount of something, especially water or rain; a heavy stream or flow.

tumbling (water)

(Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.