Crossword clues for igniting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ignite \Ig*nite"\ ([i^]g*n[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ignited; p. pr. & vb. n. Igniting.] [L. ignitus, p. p. of ignire to ignite, fr. ignis fire. See Igneous.]
To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
(Chem.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of ignite English)
Usage examples of "igniting".
Langdon Peaslee and nearly igniting a riot among the rowdier crooks as he went, while the ragged boys above cheered and hooted.
Chrysalis-bred supermen from becoming common knowledge, for fear of igniting full-scale genetic warfare and panic, of the sort that had destroyed entire civilizations on Alba IV or Trasker Prime.
Yrrei, is rising through a pink fleece of fine-weather cloudlets and igniting little rainbows in all the dewy foliage.
As beautiful as he found herher black locks and blue eyes igniting some very uncomfortable flames of imaginationthe images were always somehow hollow, colorless at heart, lacking the amber-and-rose glow such daydreams had possessed when Carline had been a distant, unapproachable, and unknown figure.
Damiem's yellow sun, called here Yrrei, is rising through a pink fleece of fine-weather cloudlets and igniting little rainbows in all the dewy foliage.
The squeak of bedsprings merged with the pictures of the struggling tangled limbs in her mind, igniting again a tiny smoldering spark between her own legs.
I knew every creak the old frame house made, the rush of gas flame igniting under the hot water heater, the tin crack of the stove cooling after I'd boiled water for tea, the pickup that blattered down the road each night at ten thirty.
Each night when they stopped to rest the horses, she would test small cantrips: summoning lights, igniting small fires-things Halruaan children could do.
The flames, igniting the petrol in the carburettors, had melted the unions of the petrol-pipes.
When it is done, the MAGI task force decelerates through the forest at a diminished thirty gravities, the fusion-flame tails of the torchships igniting any tree fragments that have escaped the initial attack.
She pushed, and the roiling wall of gas, burning like a sun, swept down the hillside like a great wave, igniting the air as it went, rolling out onto the alluvial fan with a mind-numbing roar to drown out the screams of men and horses standing in its path.
Without really wanting to, he remembered what he had learned about Arkon bombs: set to the electron number of one or more elements, they brought the atoms of those elements into the nuclear reaction and detonation, igniting an atom fire of sorts which could be extinguished only when the 'fuel' had been exhausted.
Each time they touched, brushing against each other not quite accidentally, it was like fire licking along the nerves, igniting his body to fever heat.
In what I did read of fusion bombs, however, I read nothing about their ignition that would have eliminated the fission bomb as the igniting mechanism.
I suspect, then, that based, in part, on this negative evidence, the fission bomb was the igniting mechanism.