tinder

IPA: tˈɪndɝ

noun

  • Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
  • A surname.
  • An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.

verb

  • (transitive) To set fire to; torch.
  • (social media, intransitive) To use the dating application Tinder.
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Examples of "tinder" in Sentences

  • It may be used as tinder or char.
  • Is this bit of tinder and gasoline even needed
  • First, the tinder is piled up in a compact heap.
  • The fungus is a useful form of tinder for fire lighting.
  • The tinder is lit, and the kindling is allowed to catch fire.
  • A small fire consisting of tinder is then used to ignite kindling.
  • Dry tinder can be added to the coal, and then blown on to form flames.
  • Things are like a tinder box which only the slightest spark can set off.
  • Like a wildfire igniting in tinder-dry brush, it will only take one spark.
  • Once the tinder bundle bursts into flame, it is then placed into the fire lay.
  • These pockets of flames are embedded in tinder throughout the rest of the region.
  • Place this on top of a flat flint so that the edge of the tinder is right next to the edge that you are going to strike.
  • Another option for 'take along' tinder is the lint collected from the dryer after a load of towels BUT it should be kept bone dry in a 35mm film cannister.
  • Colonel von Falkenheyn, and his assistant, the latter a lieutenant of the guards, and the name tinder which they journeyed was an incognito one; indeed, so cleverly did they manage to conceal their identity that it was hardly ever revealed.

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