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# kindling

«kindling» in Mova's school dictionary: **small dry sticks and wood used to start a fire** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (kindling); also verb form of kindle

### meaning for a pupil

1) Kindling is small dry sticks and wood used to start a fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#m1)

2) Kindling is the action of setting a fire alight; it is the -ing form of kindle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, the stuff gathered to light a fire; the fire is started by kindling

### examples

- Gather some dry kindling for the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#x1)
- We lit the kindling with a match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#x2)
- They spent the evening kindling a fire of driftwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kindling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.