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Definition of kindling in English: kindlingnoun ˈkɪndlɪŋˈkɪndlɪŋ mass noun1Small sticks or twigs used for lighting fires. 引柴，引火之物 Example sentencesExamples - I bought diesel, petrol, meths, engine oil, kindling and even a light sprinkling of gunpowder.
- A couch and single-place chair made from leather cushions supported in wooden frames sat before a fireplace with logs and kindling already laid.
- David leaned over and kicked more kindling onto the fire, which was burning a bit too low for comfort.
- While they were collecting the pine cones, Erik was gather kindling and fire wood for that evening, making sure to only use wood from fallen branches and logs.
- At least four 15-year-old bushes were completely smashed to the ground, the canes splintered into kindling.
- Madala, Dixira, Cleo and five other warriors were handed coarse wool sheets and kindling for a fire.
- Place smaller wood, kindling and paper on top of this load and light from the top!
- He looked back down, gritted his teeth, and continued to chop wood into kindling.
- Her nephew approached, holding a cooking pot with herbs littered inside it, a pestle and mortar, a ladle, bowl and kindling.
- Each Monday morning he would rise half an hour early, winter and summer, make his way across the cobbled yard and carry with him a handful of kindling, a box of burnable rubbish and a bucketful of slack coal.
- From the ceiling hung a metal pan on which pine kindling once lent light and fragrance.
- They scrounged for pine cones for the fires, and both became adept at chopping kindling.
- My mother's favourite kindling is pinecones, and I've often gone out to collect them.
- In the forest there is no shortage of kindling, sticks, short logs or anything else needed to kindle a vigorous campfire and keep it burning effortlessly.
- For those who don't know, a hatchet is a small axe, used mostly for cutting larger chunks of wood into kindling, or more rarely, in hatchet throwing contests at small county fares.
- A moment passed, and Hargrove, the Hudson prospector of middle-age gathered an armful of cherry kindling after he had brushed away the embers.
- She found food, fire wood, kindling, bandages, and whisky, everything she needed.
- There was a small stack of dry wood and kindling in the cave.
- Why don't you go get some kindling from the storeroom so we can start the fire?
- I went back to the park to get more kindling and some straight sticks for building the reciprocating drill.
2(in neurology) a process by which a seizure or other brain event is both initiated and its recurrence made more likely. （神经病学）激发状态，激动 Example sentencesExamples - Therefore, the precise role of the hippocampus in amygdala kindling is still to be resolved.
- Although the significance of kindling in alcohol withdrawal is debated, this phenomenon may be important in the selection of medications to treat withdrawal.
- This is consistent with the results showing that variations in post-surgical delay have no effect on the subsequent rate of kindling.
- A special case of neural sensitization is limbic kindling, which is an animal model for temporal lobe epilepsy.
- These studies comprise two general lines of inquiry that include studies of the phenomena of long-term potentiation and kindling.
Definition of kindling in US English: kindlingnounˈkɪndlɪŋˈkindliNG 1Easily combustible small sticks or twigs used for starting a fire. 引柴，引火之物 Example sentencesExamples - They scrounged for pine cones for the fires, and both became adept at chopping kindling.
- At least four 15-year-old bushes were completely smashed to the ground, the canes splintered into kindling.
- He looked back down, gritted his teeth, and continued to chop wood into kindling.
- Why don't you go get some kindling from the storeroom so we can start the fire?
- For those who don't know, a hatchet is a small axe, used mostly for cutting larger chunks of wood into kindling, or more rarely, in hatchet throwing contests at small county fares.
- Place smaller wood, kindling and paper on top of this load and light from the top!
- Her nephew approached, holding a cooking pot with herbs littered inside it, a pestle and mortar, a ladle, bowl and kindling.
- She found food, fire wood, kindling, bandages, and whisky, everything she needed.
- My mother's favourite kindling is pinecones, and I've often gone out to collect them.
- A couch and single-place chair made from leather cushions supported in wooden frames sat before a fireplace with logs and kindling already laid.
- I bought diesel, petrol, meths, engine oil, kindling and even a light sprinkling of gunpowder.
- While they were collecting the pine cones, Erik was gather kindling and fire wood for that evening, making sure to only use wood from fallen branches and logs.
- A moment passed, and Hargrove, the Hudson prospector of middle-age gathered an armful of cherry kindling after he had brushed away the embers.
- David leaned over and kicked more kindling onto the fire, which was burning a bit too low for comfort.
- From the ceiling hung a metal pan on which pine kindling once lent light and fragrance.
- Each Monday morning he would rise half an hour early, winter and summer, make his way across the cobbled yard and carry with him a handful of kindling, a box of burnable rubbish and a bucketful of slack coal.
- There was a small stack of dry wood and kindling in the cave.
- In the forest there is no shortage of kindling, sticks, short logs or anything else needed to kindle a vigorous campfire and keep it burning effortlessly.
- Madala, Dixira, Cleo and five other warriors were handed coarse wool sheets and kindling for a fire.
- I went back to the park to get more kindling and some straight sticks for building the reciprocating drill.
2(in neurology) a process by which a seizure or other brain event is both initiated and its recurrence made more likely. （神经病学）激发状态，激动 Example sentencesExamples - Therefore, the precise role of the hippocampus in amygdala kindling is still to be resolved.
- These studies comprise two general lines of inquiry that include studies of the phenomena of long-term potentiation and kindling.
- A special case of neural sensitization is limbic kindling, which is an animal model for temporal lobe epilepsy.
- This is consistent with the results showing that variations in post-surgical delay have no effect on the subsequent rate of kindling.
- Although the significance of kindling in alcohol withdrawal is debated, this phenomenon may be important in the selection of medications to treat withdrawal.
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