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tinder
[ tin-der ]
noun
- a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
- any dry substance that readily takes fire from a spark.
tinder
/ ˈtɪndə /
noun
- dry wood or other easily combustible material used for lighting a fire
- anything inflammatory or dangerous
his speech was tinder to the demonstrators' unrest
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Derived Forms
- ˈtindery, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tinder1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tinder1
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Example Sentences
Tinder and OkCupid are both owned by IAC, the parent company of The Daily Beast.
This wasn't even my own account on JSwipe, which has been described as the Jewish Tinder.
On and offline, offenses ranged from awful Tinder messages to violent threats on Twitter to street stalking.
Things began to look up, she said in the post, when she met Phelps, 29, on Tinder.
When you met him on Tinder were you initially thinking of this as a hook-up or a relationship?
Three of the Spanish ships were burning like so much tinder, and it was plain that the battle was as good as won.
"I think you're a little tinder-box," he said, smiling ruefully.
She picked up the tinder box and the box of matches and put them in her pocket.
"It forms an excellent tinder-box," he replied, asking permission to retain it.
He also had a tinder-box, and some matches, to enable him to make a fire.
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