flint

Flint

 (flĭnt)

A city of southeast-central Michigan north-northwest of Detroit. Founded on the site of a fur-trading post established in 1819, it became an automobile-manufacturing center in the early 1900s.

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flint

 (flĭnt)

n.

1. A very hard, fine-grained quartz that sparks when struck with steel.

2.

a. A piece of flint used to produce a spark.

b. A small solid cylinder of a spark-producing alloy, used in lighters to ignite the fuel.

3. A piece of flint used as a tool by prehistoric humans.

4. Something resembling flint in hardness: a jaw of flint.

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[Middle English, from Old English.]

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flint

(flɪnt)

n

1. (Minerals) 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: SiO2

2. any piece of flint, esp one used as a primitive tool or for striking fire

3. a small cylindrical piece of an iron alloy, used in cigarette lighters

4. (General Physics) Also called: flint glass or white flint colourless glass other than plate glass

5. (Tools) See optical flint

vb

(tr) to fit or provide with a flint

[Old English; related to Old High German flins, Old Swedish flinta splinter of stone, Latin splendēre to shine]

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Flint

(flɪnt)

n

1. (Placename) a town in NE Wales, in Flintshire, on the Dee estuary. Pop: 11 936 (2001)

2. (Placename) a city in SE Michigan: closure of the car production plants led to a high level of unemployment. Pop: 120 292 (2003 est)

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flint

(flɪnt)

n.

1. a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.

2. a piece of this, esp. as used for striking fire.

3. a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.

4. something very hard or unyielding.

5. a small piece of metal alloy used to produce a spark in a cigarette lighter.

v.t.

6. to furnish with flint.

[before 900; Middle English, Old English]

flint′like`, adj.

Flint

(flɪnt)

n.

1. a city in SE Michigan. 141,620.

2. Flintshire.

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flint

(flĭnt)

A very hard, gray to black sedimentary rock that makes sparks when it is struck with steel. Flint is a type of chert.

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flint

Past participle: flinted
Gerund: flinting

Imperative

flint

flint

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flint

Dark, smooth, shiny chert.

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	flint - a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony gunflint - the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon firestone - a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire flintstone - pebbles of flint used in masonry construction silica, silicon dioxide, silicon oxide - a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
	2.	Flint - a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River Flint River Empire State of the South, Georgia, Peach State, GA - a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
	3.	Flint - a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing Great Lakes State, Michigan, Wolverine State, MI - a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
Adj.	1.	flint - showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" granitic, obdurate, stony, flinty hardhearted, heartless - lacking in feeling or pity or warmth

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Translations

حَجر قَدّاحَهصَوّان

pazourekkamínek

flintflintestensten

FeuersteinFlint

pedernalpiedrasílex

silexpierre

kovakõtûzkõ

eldsteinn, kvarssteinntinnatinna, tinnusteinn

selceacciarinopietra focaiapietrina

akmenėlistitnagas

krama-krams

flint

кременьогниво

kamienokpazúrik

çakmak taşı

打火石燧石电石

flint

[flɪnt]

A. N (Geol) (= material) → sílex m; (= one piece) → pedernal m; [of lighter] → piedra f

B. CPD flint axe N → hacha f de sílex

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flint

[ˈflɪnt]

n

(= stone) → silex m

(in lighter) → pierre f (à briquet)

modif [arrowhead, tool] → en silex

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flint

n

(for cigarette lighter) → Feuerstein m

(= stone) → Feuerstein m, → Flint(stein) m

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flint

:

flint axe

n → (Feuer)steinbeil nt

flint glass

n → Flintglas nt

flintlock

n → Steinschlossgewehr nt

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flint

[flɪnt] n (Geol) → selce f; (for lighter) → pietrina

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flint

(flint) noun

1. (also adjective) (of) a kind of very hard stone. Prehistoric man used flint knives. flint صَوّان кремъчен pedra pazourek der Flint flint; flintesten πυρόλιθος sílex ränikivi سنگ چخماق piikivi silexצור एक तरह का सख्त पत्थर vrsta kamena kova(kő) batu tinna, tinnusteinn selce 火打ち石 매우 단단한 돌의 일종 titnagas krams; krama- batu vuursteenflintkrzemień بکره pederneira silex кремень pazúrik kremen kremen flinta, flintsten หินที่ใช้เป็นเครื่องมือของคนในยุคก่อนประวัติศาสตร์ çakmak taşı 燧石 кремінь سنگ خارا đá rất cứng 燧石

2. a piece of hard mineral from which sparks can be struck. I must buy a new flint for my cigarette-lighter. vuursteen حَجر قَدّاحَه кремък pedra kamínek der Feuerstein sten τσακμακόπετρα piedra de mechero tule(masina)kivi سنگ آتش زنه؛ سنگ فندک tuluskivi pierre אֶבֶן בְּמָצִית चकमक kresivo, kremen tűzkő batu api eldsteinn, kvarssteinn pietrina ライターの石 부싯돌 akmenėlis krams batu api vuursteenflintkamień بکره pedra cremene кремень kamienok kamenček kresivo stift หินไฟ çakmak taşı 電石，打火石 кремінь ایک سخت پتھر جس سے چنگاریاں پیدا کی جاتی ہیں viên đá lửa 电石，打火石

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