Kindling vs Incineration - 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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The act of incinerating]], or the state of being [[incinerate, incinerated; cremation.
Kindling is a related term of incineration.
As nouns the difference between kindling and incineration
is that kindling is small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire while incineration is incineration.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.