tinder
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dər noun
1.
a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
2.
any dry substance that readily takes fire from a spark.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English tynder; akin to German Zunder, Old Norse tundr, Old English -tendan (as in ātendan to set on fire), Gothic tundnan to catch fire, German -zünden in entzünden to kindle
before 900; Middle English; Old English tynder; akin to German Zunder, Old Norse tundr, Old English -tendan (as in ātendan to set on fire), Gothic tundnan to catch fire, German -zünden in entzünden to kindle
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| —n | |
| 1. | dry wood or other easily combustible material used for lighting a fire |
| 2. | anything inflammatory or dangerous: his speech was tinder to the demonstrators' unrest |
| [Old English tynder; related to Old Norse tundr, Old High German zuntara] | |
| 'tindery | |
| —adj | |
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Tinder
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Word Origin & History
tinder
"dry, inflammable substance," O.E. tynder, related to tendan "to kindle," from P.Gmc. *tund- "ignite, kindle" (cf. Goth. tandjan, Swed. tända, Ger. zünden). Tinderbox "box in which tinder and flint are kept" is recorded from 1530; fig. sense of " 'inflammable' person or thing" is attested from
1598.
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Example sentences
It could be used as a dandy doorstop, or a stepstool, or tinder for a really good fire.
Nobody wants to drive their family around in a rolling tinder box.
Trees respond to this stress by shedding leaves, creating openings in the forest canopy and adding tinder to the forest floor.
The tinder that sparked last summer's rioting remains in plentiful supply.
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