(n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
Example Sentences:
(1) You know it’s just full of people having excellent Tinder dates.
(2) From then on she became best known for the occasional declamatory remark: "America is founded on genocide"; "the quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth"; and "the white race is the cancer of history" are just three sparky sentences she threw into the tinder box of an America at war with the world and itself in the mid-60s.
(3) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
(4) On a Saturday in January, according to Palmer and court documents, she and a friend went to Fort Bragg to connect with men they met on Tinder Social .
(5) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
(6) Few guessed, though, that this tinder in the box was lit at least as much by the long arm of the law as the invisible hand of the market.
(7) But part of the reason people stop messaging is surely because you were only ever a wrong thumb swipe away from be swooshed into the "no" pile, forgotten forever before they are presented with infinite more options (has anyone ever run out of possibilities on Tinder?).
(8) The bonus of this tactic is that you’ll never be able to use Tinder again.
(9) It's an app you can download at the click of an iPhone and play at the bus stop, one that uses your smartphone's GPS to track down other Tindering singles in your area.
(10) Tinder announced the move on its blog : “Now when notable public figures, celebrities and athletes appear in your recommendations, you’ll know it’s for real.” Verified profiles for celebrities have long been in development, and were first mooted back in March 2014 , when Tinder’s chief executive, Sean Rad, said: “This will allow celebrities to enter Tinder in a different way.” The app’s chief marketing officer, Justin Mateen, added : “Tinder gives them [celebrities] the control to filter through the noise and communicate with people they want to know.” lily (@lilyallen) Just discovered tinder.
(11) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
(12) But even I've noticed something horrible has happened to romance lately, and I'm placing the blame on Tinder .
(13) People who use Tinder understand that, although some people who don’t might be more hesitant to sign up.
(14) It feels uncomfortably shallow at first but, as one of my fellow Tindering friends points out, "You'd just be doing it in your head at the pub anyway."
(15) But there are heartening stories from around the world of people teaming up to go Pokémon hunting and of people helping each other find elusive Pokémon – and the app is now officially more popular than Tinder , which suggests Pokemon Go might start bringing people together in very special ways indeed.
(16) I don't want people to know I sit on my bedroom floor on a Friday night and order two pizzas while watching Nothing To Declare and scrolling through Tinder.
(17) So as soon as you make one wrong move, write one badly worded message, or they simply can't be arsed, you're mentally swiped to the side – not as satisfying as the initial, physical Tinder swipe, but just as effective.
(18) A heat wave and tinder-dry brush had created a dynamic, dangerous situation, California fire captain Mike Mohler told local television reporters.
(19) Or the dreamy sex expert inspired by the time Demetriou swiped right on Tinder.
(20) In a nation with rampant inequality, endemic segregation and massive poverty guns are the spark on a huge pile of dry tinder.
Tinker
Definition:
(n.) A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
(n.) One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.
(n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff.
(n.) A young mackerel about two years old.
(n.) The chub mackerel.
(n.) The silversides.
(n.) A skate.
(n.) The razor-billed auk.
(v. t.) To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
(v. i.) To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
Example Sentences:
(1) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(2) "We should be working out how it should be ended, rather than tinkering around the edges."
(3) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
(4) Tinker with the tax treatment of the elderly and prepare to be accused of imposing a "granny tax" .
(5) He also says that continual tinkering with pension rules by successive governments could deter people from investing in pensions.
(6) As the global financial crisis deepens, the rich nations will be forced to recognise that their problems cannot be solved by tinkering with a system that is constitutionally destined to fail.
(7) The pre-briefing we’re seeing, tinkering with schedules, now going on about pay, it’s very, very threatening to an institution that’s loved, [even one] that needs to reform.” Jeremy Hunt was the last culture minister to try to increase NAO oversight at the BBC, in 2010.
(8) Jean-Claude Juncker , the European commission president, told the Guardian in December that Cameron could tinker with British law on social security and migrant rights, but that enshrining discrimination in EU law was a no-go area.
(9) The tinkering with the tort system following the 1975 malpractice crisis will not ease the constantly increasing cost burden on the health care delivery system.
(10) At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985 .
(11) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
(12) Happily, there are suddenly more alternatives, indies, blended play and new tech enabled hybrids, toys that encourage tinkering, making and individuality.
(13) This suggests that Labour’s answer to Ukip cannot be purely tactical or about tinkering with policy.
(14) The existence of multiple neuronal representations of sensory information and multiple circuits for the control of behavioral responses should provide the necessary freedom for evolutionary tinkering and the invention of new designs.
(15) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(16) The Tasmanian Liberal premier, Will Hodgman, opposed “tinkering” with the system.
(17) His personal favourite is probably his own 1926 vintage Bentley, and he admits to being in seventh heaven tinkering "to a fault" with any old engine he can get his hands on.
(18) I think a lot of the things they publish tinker on racism and Islamophobia … but at the same time I think they have a right to do what they do.
(19) But if these opportunities are squandered because tinkering at the edges seems safer than radical reform, we will have failed every future rape victim.
(20) The sounds he discovered on his guitar, refined during hours of solitary tinkering in his home studio, adorned records by Elvis Presley, Hank Williams and thousands of other artists, both country and pop.