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tinder

/tin-der/US // ˈtɪn dər //UK // (ˈtɪndə) //

煤球,火柴人,煤球网,火柴盒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • Keep it burning Stock up on tinder, whether it be pine needles or cotton balls, and give your fire plenty of room to breathe.

  • A classic fire starting tinder of the northeast is the fungus that grows on birch trees.

  • At many news outlets, the comment magnets are articles that wade into the thorniest controversies, sparking flame wars from the tinder of entrenched political views.

  • The climate crisis has warmed and dried that tinder, leading to five of the six largest fires in California history just this year.

  • The fires follow a bone-dry winter in Northern California and a stretch of record-setting summer heat waves across the state, conditions that effectively turned grasslands and forests into tinder.

  • 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.