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flint
1[ flint ]
noun
- a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
- a piece of this, especially as used for striking fire.
- a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.
- something very hard or unyielding.
- a small piece of metal, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with flint.
Flint
2[ flint ]
noun
- Austin, 1812–86, U.S. physician: founder of Bellevue and Buffalo medical colleges.
- his son Austin, 1836–1915, U.S. physiologist and physician.
- a city in SE Michigan.
flint
1/ ´Ú±ôɪ²Ô³Ù /
noun
- an impure opaque microcrystalline greyish-black form of quartz that occurs in chalk. It produces sparks when struck with steel and is used in the manufacture of pottery, flint glass, and road-construction materials. Formula: SiO 2
- any piece of flint, esp one used as a primitive tool or for striking fire
- a small cylindrical piece of an iron alloy, used in cigarette lighters
- Also calledflint glasswhite flint colourless glass other than plate glass
- See optical flint
verb
- tr to fit or provide with a flint
Flint
2/ ´Ú±ôɪ²Ô³Ù /
noun
- a town in NE Wales, in Flintshire, on the Dee estuary. Pop: 11Â 936 (2001)
- a city in SE Michigan: closure of the car production plants led to a high level of unemployment. Pop: 120Â 292 (2003 est)
flint
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- A very hard, gray to black variety of chalcedony that makes sparks when it is struck with steel. It breaks with a conchoidal fracture.
- The dark gray to black variety of chert.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of flint1
Old English; related to Old High German flins , Old Swedish flinta splinter of stone, Latin ²õ±è±ô±ð²Ô»åŧ°ù±ð to shine
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Example Sentences
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There, archaeologists found two pieces of flint encased in birch tar residue, indicating the flint pieces were once hafted to other objects.
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Ladies all, but each with a natural flint that, with the proper friction, could set a poor sap’s life on fire.
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You have to be particular about muzzle-loading a flintlock and making sure the flint is in place.
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The ground is hard like flint and when the wind blows across the plains, dust covers the squatters and all that they carry.
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And then he added, “I have a flint.â€
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