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# kindling

noun (kindling); also verb form of kindle

«kindling» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Kindling is small dry sticks and wood used to start a fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#m1)
2. Kindling is the action of setting a fire alight; it is the -ing form of kindle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#m2)

### In the lessons

in tales, the stuff gathered to light a fire; the fire is started by kindling

### Examples

- Gather some dry kindling for the fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#x1)
- We lit the kindling with a match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#x2)
- They spent the evening kindling a fire of driftwood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## In Jewish tradition

in tales, the stuff gathered to light a fire; the fire is started by kindling

### Examples

- heaping on the wood, kindling the fire, that the flesh may be consumed; and preparing the mixture, that the bones also may be burned; (Prophets EZK.24.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kindling/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «kindling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kindling/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«kindling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/kindling.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «kindling» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/K/kindling/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«kindling» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/kindling.html) on Mova free.