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verb

Ignite v. t. (past & past part. ignited; pres. part. igniting)

To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

(Chem.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum.

Ignite v. i. To take fire; to begin to burn.

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Etymology of 'Ignite'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ignite" Quotes from Famous Books

... maintain nobody can commit suicide in the year 2022 without permission from the Board. Gulflex and other oil companies protest to Number One as they say we might open up a hole that will spill all the petroleum out of the earth all at once, so fast they couldn't refine it. A spark could ignite it and set the globe on fire like it was a brandied Christmas pudding. But then another earthquake shakes Earth from the rice fields of China to the llamas in Peru just when it looks as if we were about to be tossed into an outer ...

— Operation Earthworm • Joe Archibald

... slabs of half-calcined stone, laid flat and covered with heaps of cinders and all sorts of rubbish. These slabs formed the family hearth, where man prepared his food, with the help of the fire he had learnt to ignite and to ...

— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

... with nervous excitement, he knelt beside the farther end of the fuse, and with trembling hands attempted to ignite it by a spark struck from flint and steel. Again and again the spark flew aside, but at length there came a slight flash and a ...

— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore

... through the metal of the engine, to which one wire of the circuit is attached) is a small gap, across which the secondary current leaps when the primary current is broken by the wipe and contact parting company. The spark is intensely hot, and suffices to ignite the ...

— How it Works • Archibald Williams

... doubt, on the beach," said he, "but they are of no use at all without a steel. However, we must try." So saying, he went to the beach, and soon returned with two flints. On one of these he placed the tinder, and endeavoured to ignite it; but it was with great difficulty that a very small spark was struck out of the flints, and the tinder, being a bad, hard piece, would not catch. He then tried the bit of hoop iron, which would not strike fire at all; and after ...

— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne

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