Tinder vs Timber - What's the difference?
tinder | timber |
small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
To set fire to; torch.
* Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
(British, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. Historically also used in the plural, as in "ship's timbers".
(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer'', ''timbre .
(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
To fit with timbers.
(falconry) To light or land on a tree.
(obsolete) To make a nest.
To surmount as a timber does.
(Webster 1913)
In transitive terms the difference between tinder and timber
is that tinder is to set fire to; torch while timber is to fit with timbers.As an interjection timber is
used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.tinder
English
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
timber
English
Noun
(wikipedia timber) (en noun)Synonyms
* (trees considered as a source of wood) timberland, forest * (wood that has been cut ready for construction) lumber (US), wood * (beam used to support a roof) beam, rafterDerived terms
* half-timbered * shiver me timbers * timbered * timberland * timberline * timber wolf * timberyardInterjection
timber!Verb
(en verb)- timbering a roof