Meaning of tinder in English

(Definition of tinder from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of tinder from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of tinder

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You touched the punk to glowing tinder, and it burst into flame.
It may be objected that with the whole country like tinder it will be impossible to exclude grass-fires either generally or continuously.
One reason why an annex is needed is to house these returnable empties, which are like tinder and are a great fire risk.
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All those factors provided the tinder that ignited the violence.
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But there is too much inflammable tinder around at the moment.
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Discharge by purchase for airmen was reintroduced on the same day as for soldiers, and tinder similar conditions.
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Trunk road schemes giving access to docklands worth £175 million have been completed or are tinder construction and a further £360 million of expenditure is planned.
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Pension sharing is available in relation to a person's shareable rights tinder any arrangement other than an excepted public service scheme.
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It has fallen from just over 800,000 to just tinder 400,000—a reduction in youth unemployment of 100,000 every year for four years.
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That does not create a conflagration unless, as she put it, the tinder is dry.
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Therefore, in that respect the independent minority will be entirely tinder their heel.
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We should all like to deal with many of the subjects which have come tinder review.
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It cannot be carried out tinder the trade union's own arrangements.
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There is a great deal of tinder lying about, and inflammatory situations can easily occur or be created.
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Section 15 (4) provides for the administration of medical benefit through existing systems and institutions tinder conditions there defined.
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Translations of tinder

in Chinese (Traditional)
火種, 引火物…
in Chinese (Simplified)
火种, 引火物…
in Spanish
yesca…
in Portuguese
estopa…
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