kindle
pronunciation
How to pronounce kindle in British English:
UK [ˈkɪndl]
How to pronounce kindle in American English:
US [ˈkɪndl]
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- Verb:
- catch fire
- cause to start burning
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
Word Origin
- kindle (v.)
- c. 1200, cundel, "to set fire to, to start on fire," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse kynda "to kindle, to light a fire," Swedish quindla "kindle," of uncertain origin, + frequentative suffix -le. Figurative use from c. 1300. Intransitive sense "to begin to burn, to catch fire" is from c. 1400. Related: Kindled; kindling. Influenced in form, and sometimes in Middle English in sense, with kindel "to give birth" (of animals), "bring forth, produce" (c. 1200), from kindel (n.) "offspring of an animal, young one," from Old English gecynd (see kind (n.)) + -el.
Antonym
Example
- 1. These restrictions don 't only apply to the kindle .
- 2. The new kindle reduces the page-turn wait to well under a second .
- 3. The new kindle will cost $ 489 when it goes on sale in the summer .
- 4. He named amazon 's e-book reader , launched in 2007 , the kindle to suggest that it would spark a fire ( and not of the book-burning sort ) .
- 5. My own books fall into this category , so even though I 'd like to sell more books , I can 't really recommend that you buy them for kindle .