(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.
Winder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.
(n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like.
(n.) One in a flight of steps which are curved in plan, so that each tread is broader at one end than at the other; -- distinguished from flyer.
(v. t. & i.) To fan; to clean grain with a fan.
(n.) A blow taking away the breath.
(v. i.) To wither; to fail.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author and journalist Robert Winder detailed in his book Bloody Foreigners how Charles Dickens, in creating the character of Fagin for Oliver Twist , refashioned a real social problem.
(2) Darren Winder, an economist at Cazenove, is gloomy.
(3) Students scrambled “like ants, people screaming, ‘Get out!’” Winder said.
(4) It’s about making sure there are more books available that people will feel they are entitled to pick up and browse,” said Simon Winder, publishing director of Penguin Classics.
(5) | Robert Winder Read more Which brings us to housing.
(6) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Newcastle University Runner-up : University of Reading Runner-up : University of Bradford Social and community impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Belinda Winder and Lynn Saunders from Nottingham Trent University with Paul Sinha and their social and community impact award for The Safer Living Foundation.
(7) Next door, students heard a loud thud and then a volley of gunfire, Brady Winder, 23, told the newspaper.
(8) These data, coupled with the inhibition of actomyosin ATPase by calponin (Winder, S. J., and Walsh, M. P. (1990) J. Biol.
(9) We have tested the hypothesis of Winder and Walsh [(1990) J. Biol.
(10) Winder also posted on Facebook: Hey everybody, I am safe.
(11) Corresponding preventive measures were proposed to lower the labour intensity of female electric coil winders.
(12) Simon Winder, publishing director at Penguin, called him an "utterly remarkable man".
(13) 279, 65-68] that calponin phosphorylation is not involved in smooth muscle regulation in vivo, as has been suggested from in vitro studies [Winder, S. J.
(14) A camera equipped with 50 mm macro-objective lens, with automatic flash and winder is attached to a motor-operated rotatable stand.
(15) Darren Winder at Cazenove said the key driver of the improvement was likely to have been a rebuilding in inventories, which fell to exceptionally low levels in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of this year as manufacturing firms cut production levels.
(16) "Do you think that I planned and plotted, or lost a wink of sleep, scheming to spend a considerable part of my life trying to identify hog-slappers, cheese-winders' clerks, or theatre fireman's night companions?"
(17) Histological study of lungs from horses with mild, moderate and severe chronic small airway disease consistently revealed a greater density of lesions in the diaphragmatic lobes (Winder and von Fellenberg, 1988).
(18) So there’s some Chinese and Japanese and Arabic writing in there, as well as different religious texts,” said Winder.
(19) It’s about the incredible importance of having books lying around, and getting away from the curriculum.” Winder said it had been a “crushing responsibility” to select the 100 titles Penguin is offering.
(20) The article contains a hygienic assessment of the working conditions of female coil winders engaged in high-powered electric engines' assembling.