(v. t.) To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
(v. t.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum.
(v. i.) To take fire; to begin to burn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hair ignited in room air only when struck repeatedly at high energy, but easily ignited in 100% oxygen.
(2) Eight of the nine best descriptive studies indicated that alcohol exposure was more likely among those who died in fires ignited by cigarettes than those attributable to other causes.
(3) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
(4) Twombly's work sold for millions and ignited the passions of followers.
(5) The Texas City Disaster on 16 April 1947 killed almost 600 people, when a fire ignited a huge quantity of ammonium nitrate on a ship moored in the Galveston Bay port, beginning a chain of explosions and fires.
(6) PA also spoke to Austin Yuill, whoa chef at the art school, who said he believed the blaze started when a spark ignited foam in the building's basement.
(7) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(8) Police have refused to speculate whether the blast was caused by anhydrous ammonia igniting in the heat of the fire, or if there could be a criminal connection.
(9) But the spacecraft's rocket boosters failed to ignite after it had been launched into a parking orbit around the Earth in November.
(10) The sample is ignited in a closed atmosphere of oxygen and, after a series of redox reactions, the iodine is determined spectrophotometrically as the triiodide ion.
(11) Changes in lattice parameters (principally in the a-axis dimensions) and in the character of the IR absorption bands are correlated with weight losses at pyrolysis temperatures of 100 degrees to 400 degrees C and with effect of rehydration and reignition of previously ignited samples.
(12) Photograph: supplied Nauru: a powder keg waiting to ignite All the signs suggest a moment of crisis is approaching on Nauru .
(13) When I speak to Irish people, they’re very worried about the Troubles being kind of re-ignited.
(14) This pattern is not unique to London: it is evident in past riots throughout the US, from Cincinnati to Crown Heights in New York to the Los Angeles riots ignited by the Rodney King beating.
(15) Ukip leaflets gloat: “Labour will keep you in.” In Westminster I hear some Labour MPs secretly hoping a Stoke loss would ignite a “Corbyn must go” move.
(16) It could not be any clearer that support for Mladic and his apotheosis in the media are an unfortunate endorsement of Dimitrijevic's assessment that survivors of the atrocities of the 1992-1995 war have no reason to think that Serbian culture has abandoned the ideology that ignited aggressions.
(17) Burns resulting from clothing ignition, both daywear and nightwear, have decreased slightly in recent years.
(18) We report a case of severe thermal injury to the conducting airways due to either inhalational injury or to intratracheal ignition of the ether vehicle used in free-basing cocaine resulting in severe reactive airways disease and tracheal stenosis requiring reconstructive surgery.
(19) Last year, General Motors paid $900m to end an investigation into an ignition switch defect, which cut engines and disabled systems such as power steering and airbags, linked to 124 deaths.
(20) The presented cases emphasize the hazard of serving ignited food and drinks without taking appropriate safety measures.
Torch
Definition:
(n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
(n.) A flashlight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(2) Some of the TORCH tests are not accurate and should be avoided.
(3) This study compared soldering by a conventional torch procedure with an infrared soldering technique.
(4) In this review, the diagnostic problems encountered in the evaluation of a suspected perinatal infection have been discussed, as have the complexities of the evaluation process for the original four TORCH agents, as well as for three additional agents.
(5) What his death may mark, in fact, is the passing of the al-Qaida torch from one generation of militants to another.
(6) These skin lesions are not specific of leukemia and other diagnoses should be considered including histiocytosis, neuroblastoma, and skin erythropoiesis (in Torch syndrome, hemolytic disease of the newborn, hereditary spherocytosis, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome).
(7) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
(8) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(9) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
(10) The importance of seroprevalence of the TORCH group of agents and syphilis on perinatal morbidity and mortality in Jamaican women is discussed, and appropriate recommendations for prevention and control of congenital infections in Jamaica are suggested.
(11) The experiment must equally succeed as a torch showing the way forward not only for an enlarging European Community, but also to the ever increasing interest in global harmonization of drug regulation.
(12) She took part in the Olympic torch relay and though she never met Mao, "Chairman Hu" – as she calls the Chinese president – visited her recently.
(13) But later protesters pulled down security cameras, smashed bus stops and torched cars.
(14) A few even said that Sunday’s looting and torching of a QuikTrip gas station near the scene of Brown’s killing should be interpreted as an attack on all outsider-owned businesses, which would continue.
(15) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
(16) In this study about melting and torchs employed in solder in fixed prosthodontics, it's analysed the accurate melting, adequate quantity, as well as protection of adjacent tissues with an accurate anti-melting.
(17) In the evenings the men's bodies were covered in toxic mercury deposits, left by the process of mining and washing the gold; they burned them off with a blow torch.
(18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
(19) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
(20) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.