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tinder

noun

  1. combustible material for starting a fire
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /tɪndəː/ / [tʰɪndəː] / /tɪndɚ/ / /ˈtɪn.dəː/ / [ˈtʰɪn.dəː] / /ˈtɪn.dɚ/

name

Etymology: The application's name is likely derived from the verb tinder (“to set fire to, to torch”), and a play on the various meanings of match (the prototype was called MatchBox).

  1. An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.

    “So sure, she’s a romantic, but quite a pragmatic one. “I was just thinking, ‘You know what? I’ve had shit luck with boys. I’ll try Tinder, Bumble and Love Island.’””

    “Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.

  1. Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.

    “Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.

  1. To set fire to; torch.

    “Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?”