Usually means: Material used to start fires.
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  1. tinder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tinder: Merriam-Webster
  3. tinder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tinder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tinder: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tinder: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tinder, tinder: Wordnik
  8. tinder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tinder, tinder: Wiktionary
  10. tinder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tinder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tinder: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tinder: Dictionary.com
  14. tinder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tinder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tinder (app), Tinder (application), Tinder (disambiguation), Tinder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tinder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tinder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tinder: Rhymezone
  20. Tinder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tinder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tinder: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tinder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tinder: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tinder: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To set fire to; torch.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.
▸ verb:  (social media, intransitive) To use the dating application Tinder.

Similar:
kindling, touchwood, spunk, punk, fire-plough, matchwood, chatwood, kindlewood, firewood, Swedish torch, more...

Opposite:
match, lighter, spark

Types:
kindling, wood shavings, bark, leaves, paper, cardboard, more...

Phrases:
tinder box, tinder dry, tinder fungus, German tinder, The Tinder Swindler, more...

Adjectives:
dry, much, german, good, excellent, little, ready, inflammable, political, wet, black

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     flame,     scarlet, more...


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Similar:
kindling, touchwood, spunk, punk, fire-plough, matchwood, chatwood, kindlewood, firewood, Swedish torch, more...

Opposite:
match, lighter, spark

Types:
kindling, wood shavings, bark, leaves, paper, cardboard, more...

Phrases:
tinder box, tinder dry, tinder fungus, German tinder, The Tinder Swindler, tinder rejection, success on tinder, to tinder, tinder action, ignites with flint and tinder, opposite of tinder, more...

Adjectives:
dry, much, german, good, excellent, little, ready, inflammable, political, wet, black

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     flame,     scarlet, more...



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