Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Easily ignited material, such as dry sticks of wood, used to start a fire. Also called regionally fat pine, fatwood, lightwood.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A brood or litter.
- n. The act of causing to burn; setting on fire.
- n. Material, usually dry wood cut into small pieces, for starting a fire: as, put some kindling in the stove: most commonly in the plural.
- n. The bringing forth of young: applied by English fanciers to rabbits.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
- n. Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire, such as small twigs or paper; -- also used in the pl..
WordNet 3.0
- n. material for starting a fire
- n. the act of setting something on fire
Examples
“And it's an important point, because there's two things, really, with regards to what they called a kindling effect.”
“_ She takes some wood, or some coal, and puts under it some pine wood, which she calls kindling, and some shavings, and then takes a match and sets the shavings on fire, and very soon the fire is made.”
“Write to Done has been instrumental in kindling my passion to write again.”
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“Dry pine needles and dry wood shavings make good tinder to light the kindling from the burning cottonball.”
“She slipped and broke her hip while bringing in kindling during a blizzard and never recovered.”
“First tinder, then thin kindling, followed by bigger and bigger kindling, then small fire wood followed by bigger.”
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“Some people just won't be happy until the Inquisition has office space again and kindling is being piled up around the local stakes.”
“The kindling is stacked below, air between the logs, the firewood is dry and the chimney draws well.”
“Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. †Hannah Senesh”
“By contrast, kindling is a substance that will ignite from an open flame such as a match or butane lighter but is difficult to spark from a steel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kindling’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Fire
Words describing or related to fire.
burn, blaze, brand, sizzle, scorch, char, crisp, crackle, kindle, flame, inferno, pyre and 27 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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erinnbatykefer's Words
ewer, lace, grenadine, wick, haruspex, augur, distal, proximal, supine, labyrinthine, rivers, monongahela and 176 more...
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Words To Use In Creative Writing
hag-ridden, light-heeled, wendigo, longshanks, fatuous, insipid, sodden, bulging, sycophantic, uncourtly, gauche, assuasive and 102 more...
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kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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The Kindling
SAS Gr. 7 EAL Book Read
kindling, plague, vague, staccato, digress, barren, soothe, ten commandments, undulated, rant, whimper, callous and 18 more...
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trufutant's Words
conundrum, nonsense, foolishness, swell, cacophony, grizzled, hoary, despot, bloke, ravenous, sot, quirt and 83 more...
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windswept
windswept, yonder, valley, stony, terrain, squall, remote, kindling, plateau, parka, mist, embers and 14 more...
Tweets
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mollusque This pleasure either the young men copied from the older ones or the older ones always kept. The grown people, like the children, looked with kindling eyes at all turmoil, expecting delight for themselves and for you.
--Eudora Welty, 1946, Delta Wedding Dec 11, 2010