Crossword clues for tinder
tinder
- Dry flammable material
- Dicky tried new hookup app
- It's highly flammable
- Fire-starting stuff
- Fire-starting need
- You might find a match for it
- Relative of Bumble
- Popular dating app
- Modern dating service with a flame in its logo
- Kindling kin
- Inflammable material
- Flammable stuff
- Fire-starting twigs
- Fire-starter's material
- Dry twigs for a fire
- Contents of a risky box
- App with much swiping
- App with left-swipes
- Fire starter
- Inflammatory stuff
- Fast starter
- Twigs, perhaps
- Material for starting a fire
- Kind of box
- Flammable material
- Kindling's kin
- Flammable item
- Highly flammable wood
- Combustible material
- Can the German produce touchwood?
- What may help Kindle’s method of identifying date
- Kindling for romance?
- Firelighting material
- Find a match here: it'll burn nicely
- Dry matter for lighting fires
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tinder \Tin"der\, n. [OE. tinder, tunder, AS. tynder, tyndre; akin to tendan to kindle, D. tonder tinder, G. zunder, OHG. zuntara, zuntra, Icel. tundr, Sw. tunder, Dan. t["o]nder. See Tind.] Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
German tinder. Same as Amadou.
Tinder box, a box in which tinder is kept.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dry, inflammable substance," Old English tynder, from or related to tendan "to kindle," from Proto-Germanic *tund- "ignite, kindle" (cognates: Gothic tandjan, Swedish tända, German zünden "to kindle").
Wiktionary
n. small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire. vb. (context transitive English) To set fire to; torch.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tinder is easily combustible material used to start a fire. Tinder is a finely divided, open material which will begin to glow under a shower of sparks. Air is gently wafted over the glowing tinder until it bursts into flame. The flaming tinder is used to ignite kindling, which in turn is used to ignite the bulk material, to produce a fire.
Tinder can be made of any flammable substance, as long as it is finely divided, and has an open structure.
Tinder is a location-based social discovery service application (using Facebook) that facilitates communication between mutually interested users, allowing matched users to chat.
Originally incubated inside Hatch Labs, the app was launched in 2012, and by 2014 it was registering about one billion "swipes" per day. Tinder is among the first "swiping apps", where the user uses a swiping motion to choose between the photos of other users: swiping right for potentially good matches and swiping left on a photo to move to the next one.
Tinder is combustible material for fires.
Tinder may also refer to:
- Tinder (app), matchmaking software
- Tinder Foundation, a UK-based charity for digital inclusion
Usage examples of "tinder".
All I had to do was to get some sulphur and tinder, and the procuring of these two articles set all my wits to work.
And then Lobb, he thought supposing his slowmatch goes out and he spends twenty minutes with flint and steel trying to light more tinder.
After this heartfelt prayer I took my coat, unsewed it, and found-the tinder!
It was the deadly bacteriophage Doctor Alph had cultivated, multiplying with the incredible speed the scientist had spoken of, devouring the flesh of the Martians like flame devouring tinder!
All those long centuries they had smoldered, now and then breaking loose, feeding on the packed-up tinder that had been sifting into the shadows and the corners of Istanbul, its crooked angles dredged with dust and detritus and the filth of a million benighted souls.
He carried a bow, and tinder, and sharp steel, small precautions that counted in a Skyshiel gale, when cloud and relentless snowfall mantled the high peaks, and strength and experience lent no guarantee in the brute fight to maintain survival.
And everywhere the human creatures, harshly moulded by years of warfare or years of oppression or years of vain though supremely brave secret resistance to the foreign tyrant, are now too familiar with harshness, are unserene, are tinder to every spark.
Vervane came in through the archway to deposit an armload of sticks and tinder next to it.
We kept a supply of candlenut tapers ready for lighting on a shelf, along with a flint and steel and a box of tinder.
Nezzie had produced a small ember from another fireplace, and with it set fire to some fluff from the seedpods of fireweed collected for tinder.
His incendiarists checked their supplies: lucifers, flints, steels, tinder, and fuses.
While busied with Madame la Momie, our fire had burned low, for the dry case went like tinder.
She looked down as the flames grew brighter, consuming the dry grass, tinder, and the soft polewood that Steinman had cut and stacked.
And indeed, as she gazed at the piled tinder, her hand laid on the silken bag at her throat where, he guessed, she kept the starstone, the tinder burst suddenly into flame.
He projected the power past the slate roof of the round towerlike silo, sending a little spark into it to find tinder.