tinder

UK /ˈtɪn.də/ US /ˈtɪn.dɚ/

verb 2name 2noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

burned, dry, important, light, many, popular, used

VERB + TINDER

doesn't, downloaded, found, isn't, like, matched, met, recommend

TINDER + NOUN

anybody, bumble, giue, hoa, material, pretext

PREP.

from, on, with, with

ADV.

famously

Definitions

noun

Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.

Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]

verb

To set fire to; torch.

Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?

name

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — material for starting a fire

kindling
touchwood
spunk
punk

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]

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Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?

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So sure, she’s a romantic, but quite a pragmatic one. “I was just thinking, ‘You know what? I’ve had shit luck with boys. I’ll try Tinder, Bumble and Love Island.’”

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Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.

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I haven't been Tindering or doing the Plenty of Fish thing in quite some time because I've been seeing Date #2, and he's lovely. […] I'm not Tindering or frequenting POF because my heart still belongs

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With Tinder, the pretext is to hook-up, but the real pleasure is derived from the Tindering process. […] Summing up the Tindering experience, Tinderers would rather judge 50 pictures in two minutes th

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