17 April 2016
tinder
[tin-der]
noun
1. a highly flammable material or preparation formerly used for catching the spark from a flint and steel struck together for fire or light.
2. any dry substance that readily takes fire from a spark.
Origin of tinder
Middle English, Old English
900 before 900; Middle English; Old English tynder; akin to German Zunder, Old Norse tundr, Old English -tendan (as in ātendan to set on fire), Gothic tundnan to catch fire, German -zünden in entzünden to kindle
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Examples from the Web for tinder
Contemporary Examples
The men of OKCupid and tinder, too, often perform the virtual equivalent of looking right back at you.
Online Shaming Gives Creeps the Spotlight They Deserve
Samantha Allen
September 22, 2014
Historical Examples
For striking a light, a flint and steel with tinder were used.
The Historical Child
Oscar Chrisman
I always like to hear what he says when his tinder brain has a spark fall into it.
Over the Teacups
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We are each of us provided with a box of little phosphorus sticks by which we are to do away entirely with all use of tinder.
The Rose of Old St. Louis
Mary Dillon
Ormond took the hint like tinder, and grasped my hand on the bargain.
Captain Canot
Brantz Mayer
The fire engines throbbed up almost immediately, but the building was doomed from the start and went like tinder.
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill
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Today’s quote
When reading, we don’t fall in love with characters’ appearances. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls.
– Unknown
On this day
17 April 1521 – Martin Luther appears before the Diet of Worms to be questioned by representatives the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, over the alleged possession of heretical books. (Worms is a town in Germany and Diet is a formal assembly).
17 April 1961 – the U.S. government sponsor 1,500 Cuban exiles to invade the Bay of Pigs, Cuba in an effort to overthrow the socialist government of Fidel Castro. The attacks fails, resulting in the deaths or capture of all of the exiles.
17 April 1967 – the final episode of the sit-com, Gilligan’s Island, airs in the United States. The first episode aired on 26 September 1964. It told the story of four men and three women on board the S.S. Minnow are ship-wrecked on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean following a storm. Stranded are the ship’s mate, Gilligan and the ship’s skipper, a millionaire and his wife (the Howells), a sultry movie star (Ginger Grant), a professor and farm girl (Mary-Anne Summers).
17 April 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan convicted of 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was originally given a death sentence, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. Robert Kennedy was the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
17 April 2010 – A Manhattan library reveals that first President George Washington failed to return two library books, accruing overdue fees of $300,000. The library said they weren’t pursuing payment of the fees.