Kindling vs Conflagration - What's the difference?
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Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
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*:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
The act by which something is kindled.
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A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
(figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
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Kindling is a related term of conflagration.
As nouns the difference between kindling and conflagration
is that kindling is small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire while conflagration is a large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.As a verb kindling
is .kindling
English
(Firelighting)Noun
Usage notes
Kindling refers to the second stage of building a fire: tinder is used to light kindling, which then lights the main fire.Coordinate terms
* (l)Verb
(head)- Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.
conflagration
English
(wikipedia conflagration)Noun
(en noun)- It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration .
- This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of fear of attacks and patriotic reactions of self-defence against such attacks until the evil genie of self-preservation and fear became loose, resulting in a sweeping conflagration of a war of nations with all the horror of diseases, mutilation, and extermination of millions of human lives, over seventeen and a half millions, according to latest accounts, having perished in this world-massacre of the human race.