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What (who) is kindling - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Kindling (neurology); Kindlings; Kindling (novel); Kindling (disambiguation)
kindling
¦ noun
1. small sticks or twigs used for lighting fires.
2. (in neurology) a process by which an event in the brain is initiated and its recurrence made more likely.
kindling
Kindling is small pieces of dry wood and other materials that you use to start a fire.
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Kindling
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Kindle.
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Kindling
Kindling is material for firelighting
Kindling may also refer to:
- Kindling (album), a 1973 album by Gene Parsons
- Kindling (film), a 1915 film by Cecil B. DeMille
- Kindling (Mick Farren novel)
- Ruined City (novel) or Kindling, a novel by Nevil Shute
- Kindling (substance withdrawal), a process by which each subsequent withdrawal episode produces a more severe withdrawal syndrome
- Kindling, a campus humor magazine for North Central College
Examples of use of kindling
1. "When Mormons get mobilized, they‘re like dry kindling.
2. Traders, meanwhile, have turned their own wooden stalls into kindling.
3. By Chris Floyd The kindling has been piled high, stuffed with tinder and doused with gasoline.
4. Wooden homes were reduced to kindling and thousands of acres of crops were flattened.
5. "He had brilliantly prepared the kindling; the spark was the conference speech.