Definition of kindling
:easily combustible material for starting a fire
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Mortgage rates dropped below 4% for the first time since November, providing more kindling to an already hot housing market as the crucial spring selling season gets under way.
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What’s happening in this early stage of Alzheimer’s can be likened to the kindling that starts a house fire.
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The NES Classic Edition seems to suggest that the physical form and context of the original ignited the kindling that Nintendo has been arranging for years with sequels and re-releases of its original titles.
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The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom.
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More elaborate dishes, listed as the day’s specials, may include huaxmole, a creamy stew of guajillo peppers evoking cranberries and smoke, or a goat consommé with a kindling of chiles.
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If that was the kindling, the Obama administration’s decision in 2014 to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba served as the match.
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Continue this step another two to three times then light your kindling as usual.
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First Known Use of kindling
circa 1522
KINDLING Defined for English Language Learners
kindling
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Definition of kindling for English Language Learners
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: dry twigs, pieces of paper, etc., that burn easily and are used to start a fire
KINDLING Defined for Kids
kindling
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kin·dling
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Definition of kindling for Students
:material that burns easily and is used for starting a fire
Medical Dictionary
kindling
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kind·ling
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medical Definition of kindling
:the electrophysiological changes that occur in the brain as a result of repeated intermittent exposure to a subthreshold electrical or chemical stimulus (as one causing seizures) so that there develops a usually permanent decrease in the threshold of excitability
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