| 单词 | kindling |
| 释义 | kindling (once / 1789 pages) n The small pieces of wood you use to start a fire are called kindling. When you go camping, you can gather kindling, little twigs and branches, to use in a campfire. Kindling helps a fire get going because it's small and dry, easily flammable. Once the kindling is burning, it can ignite the larger pieces of wood in your fire. You can also use this word to mean "the act of lighting," so you could say, "Kindling this fire is so hard after all that rain we had." Kindling comes from the Old Norse root kynda, "to light a fire." WORD FAMILYkindling: kindlings+/enkindle: enkindled, enkindles, enkindling/kindle: enkindle, kindled, kindles, kindling, rekindle/kindled: unkindled/rekindle: rekindled, rekindles, rekindling USAGE EXAMPLESKawu, 25, escaped with what he could – his wife, their three children, and kindling for a fire. The Guardian(Nov 26, 2016) Kenneth Smith, 80, spends hours a day standing on the roadside in Mississippi, selling bags of kindling for $5 each. BBC(Nov 23, 2016) In his pocket, he always keeps a little plastic bag with a few cotton balls rubbed in Vaseline to use as kindling in the rain. Wall Street Journal(Nov 09, 2016) 1n material for starting a fire Syn|Hyper punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood igniter, ignitor, lighter a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire 2n the act of setting something on fire Syn|Hyper firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting burning, combustion the act of burning something |
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