Tinderbox

Synonyms for "tinderbox" (9 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (3)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (4)

Related word relations

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More general

2 entries

derived

1 entries

derived from

2 entries

is a

2 entries

related to

8 entries

Translations

47 translations across 27 languages.

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Belarusian

3 entries
  • во́гніва noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • краса́ла noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • крэ́сіва noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • огни́во noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Burmese

1 entries
  • မီးခတ် noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Catalan

1 entries
  • caixa d'esca noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 打火匣 noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • 火絨盒 /火绒盒 noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • 火藥桶 /火药桶 noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Czech

1 entries
  • křesadlo noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Danish

1 entries
  • fyrtøj noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Dutch

2 entries
  • kruitvat noun (potentially dangerous situation)
  • tondeldoos noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Finnish

2 entries
  • ruutitynnyri noun (potentially dangerous situation)
  • tuluskukkaro noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

French

3 entries
  • boîte d'amadou noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • briquet noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • poudrière noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Galician

1 entries
  • esqueiro noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

German

3 entries
  • Feuerzeug noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • Pulverfass noun (potentially dangerous situation)
  • Zunderbüchse noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Italian

1 entries
  • polveriera noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 火口箱 noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Korean

1 entries
  • 부시쌈지 noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • борина noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • буре барут noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Manx

1 entries
  • kishtey sponk noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Navajo

1 entries
  • woolkʼą́ą́h noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • fyrtøy noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Polish

1 entries
  • beczka prochu noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Romanian

1 entries
  • bricheta noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Russian

3 entries
  • креса́ло noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • огни́во noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • порохова́я бо́чка noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Slovak

1 entries
  • kresadlo noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Spanish

3 entries
  • caja de la yesca noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • polvorín noun (potentially dangerous situation)
  • yesquero noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Swedish

3 entries
  • elddon noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • fnöskdosa noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • krutdurk noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Udmurt

1 entries
  • тылкорт noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • креса́ло noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • креси́во noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • огни́во noun (small container containing flint, steel, and tinder)
  • порохова́ бо́чка noun (potentially dangerous situation)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands.

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Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there.

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And then came the night that made America famous / Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke? / In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in, someone struck a spark

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Think of your blank journal as a tinderbox, a box for holding combustible materials, ready to catch fire when you sit down to work.

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