tinder

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tin·der /ˈtɪndə $ -ər/ noun [uncountable]  DBURNdry material that burns easily and can be used for lighting fires 引火物，火绒，火媒

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tinder• An ancient tallow candle stood fixed in its grease on one of the cross-beams, with a tinder beside it.• Well don't stand like a lump of dozy puddin' - take some sticks and tinder and get started.• But Cincinnati seems to have been unusually dry tinder.• Logs in the grate, tinder box on the hearth.• At a spark from her tinder, a sheet of flame could envelop the Genoese.• They will think of what happened to you and hide tinder their beds.• As news of the shooting spread, Overtown exploded like tinder in a lightning storm.• This was not the first time the tinder box called Hebron has been touched by flame.Origin tinder Old English tynder

tin·der nounChineseSyllable  

material burns be can Corpus easily that and dry used

tinder
tin‧der /ˈtɪndə $ -ər/ noun [uncountable]dry material that burns easily and can be used for lighting fires

tin·derBrE /ˈtɪndə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtɪndər/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] dry material, especially wood or grass, that burns easily and can be used to light a fire 引火物；火绒；火种◆The fire started late Saturday in tinder-dry grass near the Snake River. 大火是星期六晚些时候在斯内克河附近干枯的草地上燃起的。🔊🔊