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# tinder

«tinder» in Mova's school dictionary: **dry material that catches fire easily from a spark, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (tinder, no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Tinder is dry material that catches fire easily from a spark, used to start a fire. (old use) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinder/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a traveller strikes a spark to light a fire with tinder

### examples

- Have you got the tinder? asked the witch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinder/#x1)
- Dry leaves make good tinder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinder/#x2)
- The spark fell onto the tinder and it glowed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tinder/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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