Torrent vs Gout - What's the difference?
torrent | gout |
A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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, title= (figurative) A large amount or stream of something.
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, title= * {{quote-book, passage=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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(Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.
(internet slang) To download in a torrent.
(pathology, not countable) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
(usually, followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
* , Macbeth , act 2, scene 1:
* 1981 , , Children of Men , ch. 20, page 137:
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(rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)
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As nouns the difference between torrent and gout
is that torrent is a violent flow, as of water, lava, etc; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice or torrent can be (internet|file sharing) a set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially bittorrent while gout is taste, flavour.As an adjective torrent
is rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.As a verb torrent
is (internet slang|transitive) to download in a torrent.torrent
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) torrentNoun
(en noun)- The roaring torrent is deep and wide.
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, passage=A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}
Derived terms
* torrential * torrentiality * torrentiallySee also
* barrage * inundate * deluge * torrentialEtymology 2
From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent).
Noun
(en noun)- I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.
Verb
(en verb)- The video rental place didn't have the film I was after, but I managed to torrent it.
gout
English
(wikipedia gout)Noun
(en noun)- I see thee still,
- And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.
- [S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.
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- Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.