Torrent

Noun

 * 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.

Derived terms

 * torrential
 * torrentiality
 * torrentially

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Adjectives for Torrent
wild; rushing; impetuous; irregular; tempestuous; streaming; furious; fiery; thundering; driving; angry; boiling; muddy; seething; dangerous; racing; living; windy; drenching; rapid; turbid; plunging; instantaneous; silver; deep; narrow; swirling; eddying; restless; tremendous; resistless; noisy; mad; fierce; hushed; flashing; swift; foaming; raging; radical; icy; mountain; descending; lava; turbulent; pent-up.

Verbs for Torrent
check—; dam—; immerse in—; pacify—; slacken—; staunch—; stem—; swell into—; tranquillize—: -batters; —buffets; —cascades; —deluges; —devastates; —foams. —gushes; —inundates; —issues from; -roars; —rolls; —surges; —sweeps; — swirls; —washes; —waves.

Thesaurus
Niagara, antelope, arrow, belch, blue darter, blue streak, burst, cannonball, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, courser, dart, debouchment, deluge, dissiliency, eagle, effusion, electricity, eructation, eruption, express train, flare-up, flash, flood, flooding, flow, fresh, freshet, gazelle, greased lightning, greyhound, gush, gushing, hare, inundation, jet, jet plane, light, lightning, mercury, outbreak, outburst, outpouring, overflow, pour, quicksilver, rapids, river, rocket, rush, scared rabbit, shot, spate, spew, spurt, streak, streak of lightning, stream, striped snake, swallow, thought, thunderbolt, tide, volcan, waterflood, wind

Etymology 1
From torrent

Etymology 2
From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata.

Noun

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: hyöky, vyöry
 * French:
 * German:, Schwall, Sturzflut
 * Portuguese:


 * Romanian: torent
 * Russian: поток
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: skur

Noun

 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) A torrent

Etymology
From torrens: