Tinder vs Binder - What's the difference?
tinder | binder |
small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
To set fire to; torch.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Someone who binds, particularly someone who binds books; a bookbinder.
A cover or holder for unbound papers, pages etc.
Something that is used to bind things together, often referring to the mechanism that accomplishes this for a book.
(programming) A software mechanism that performs binding.
* 2004 , Paul Vick, The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language (page 389)
A dossier.
(agriculture) A machine used in harvesting that ties cut stalks of grain into a bundle.
(chemistry) A chemical that causes two other substances to form into one.
(legal) A down payment on a piece of real property that secures the payor the right to purchase the property from the payee upon an agreement of terms.
A rubber band.
Material or clothing used in binding or flattening the breasts.
As nouns the difference between tinder and binder
is that tinder is small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire while binder is someone who binds, particularly someone who binds books; a bookbinder.As a verb tinder
is to set fire to; torch.tinder
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Noun
(wikipedia tinder) (-)Usage notes
Tinder refers to the first stage of building a fire: sparks light tinder, which then lights kindling, which then lights the main fire.Derived terms
* tinder box, tinderboxCoordinate terms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?
References
binder
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(wikipedia binder)Noun
(en noun)- The runtime binder considers inheritance and name hiding, and does overload resolution.