TINDERBOX

Meaning of TINDERBOX in English

[noun] [C] - a dangerous and uncontrolled situation in which violence is likely to happenThe racial tension in the area is a tinderbox ready to ignite.

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

TINDERBOX — noun Date: 1530 1. a metal box for holding tinder and usually a flint and steel for striking a spark, …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TINDERBOX — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. a. : a metal box for holding tinder and usually a flint and steel for striking a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
TINDERBOX — /tin"deuhr boks'/ , n. 1. a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel. 2. a person …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
TINDERBOX — n. box containing tinder and flint and steel for starting fire (Archaic); person easily angered, hothead
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
TINDERBOX — noun Date: 1530 1. a. : a metal box for holding tinder and usually a flint and steel for striking …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
TINDERBOX — ■ noun historical a box containing tinder, flint, a steel, and other items for kindling fires.
Concise Oxford English vocab
TINDERBOX — [tin.der.box] n (1530) 1 a: a metal box for holding tinder and usu. a flint and steel for striking a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
TINDERBOX — tinderbox BrE AmE ˈtɪnd ə bɒks AmE \ - ə r bɑːks ▷ tinderbox|es ɪz əz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
TINDERBOX — / ˈtɪndəbɒks; NAmE ˈtɪndərbɑːks/ noun 1. a box containing dry material, used in the past for lighting a fire 2. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TINDERBOX — tin ‧ der ‧ box /ˈtɪndəbɒks $ -dərbɑːks/ BrE AmE noun 1 . [countable usually singular] a place or situation …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
TINDERBOX — also tinder box ( tinderboxes) If you say that a situation is a tinderbox , you mean that it is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
TINDERBOX — also tinder box (~es) If you say that a situation is a ~, you mean that it is very tense …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
TINDERBOX — noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
TINDERBOX — (историческое) трутница
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
TINDERBOX — Огниво
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
TINDERBOX — n ист. трутница
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
TINDERBOX — пороховая бочка
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
TINDERBOX — (n) трутница
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
TINDERBOX — n ист. трутница
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
TINDERBOX — n ист. трутница
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
TINDERBOX — (историческое) трутница
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
TINDERBOX — пороховая бочка
Англо-Русский словарь
TINDERBOX — n. Pronunciation: ' tin-d ə r- ˌ bäks Function: noun Date: 1530 1 a : a metal box for holding …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FLASH POINT — noun Date: 1878 the lowest temperature at which vapors above a volatile combustible substance ignite in air when exposed to …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FLASH POINT — I. noun 1. also flashing point : the lowest temperature at which the vapors above a volatile combustible substance (as …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FIREBOX — /fuyeur"boks'/ , n. 1. the box or chamber containing the fire of a steam boiler, furnace, etc. 2. the furnace …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FLASH POINT — Date: 1878 1. : the lowest temperature at which vapors above a volatile combustible substance ignite in air when exposed …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FUSIL — ~ 1 [ 'fju:zɪl ] ■ noun historical a light musket. Origin C16 (denoting a flint in a tinderbox): from …
Concise Oxford English vocab
FLASH POINT — [flash point] n (1878) 1: the lowest temperature at which vapors above a volatile combustible substance ignite in air when …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CENSORSHIP — the suppression or prohibition of speech or writing that is condemned as subversive of the common good. It occurs in …
Britannica English vocabulary
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN — born , April 2, 1805, Odense, near Copenhagen, Den. died Aug. 4, 1875, Copenhagen unique master of the fairy tale …
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