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What is the difference between twigs and kindling?

twigs | kindling |

As nouns the difference between twigs and kindling

is that twigs is plural of lang=en while kindling is small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.

As verbs the difference between twigs and kindling

is that twigs is third-person singular of twig while kindling is present participle of lang=en.

twigs

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (twig)

    • kindling

    English

    (Firelighting)

    Noun

  • Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :

    • 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.