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1. (n.) flint
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
2. flint
a piece of this, esp. as used for striking fire.
3. flint
a chunk of this used as a primitive tool or as the core from which such a tool was struck.
4. flint
something very hard or unyielding.
5. flint
a small piece of metal alloy used to produce a spark in a cigarette lighter.
6. (v.t.) flint
to furnish with flint.
7. (n.) Flint
a city in SE Michigan. 141,620.
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) flint
a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
2. (noun) Flint, Flint River
a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
3. (adj) Flint
a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
4. (adj) flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
"his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Flint
a massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel
2. (noun) Flint
a piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks
3. (noun) Flint
anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Flint
1, a maritime county (77) of North Wales, between Lancashire and Denbigh, of which a detached portion lies to the N. of Shropshire; low stretches of sand form its foreshore, but inland it is hilly, with here and there a picturesque and fertile valley in which dairy-farming is extensively carried on. 2, a seaport (5), on the estuary of the Dee, 13 m. NW. of Chester; has ruins of a castle with interesting historical associations; in the neighbourhood are copper-works and lead and coal mines.
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Prehistoric man used flint knives.
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 Afrikaans: flint |
 Arabic: صَوّان |
 Bulgarian: кремъчен |
 Brazilian: pedra |
 Czech: pazourek |
 German: der Flint |
 Danish: flint; flintesten |
 Greek: πυρόλιθος |
 Spanish: sílex |
 Estonian: ränikivi |
 Farsi: سنگ چخماق |
 Finnish: piikivi |
 French: silex |
 Hebrew: צוֹר |
 Hindi: एक तरह का सख्त पत्थर |
 Croatian: vrsta kamena |
 Hungarian: kova(kő) |
 Indonesian: batu |
 Icelandic: tinna, tinnusteinn |
 Italian: selce |
 Japanese: 火打ち石 |
 Korean: 매우 단단한 돌의 일종 |
 Lithuanian: titnagas |
 Latvian: krams; krama- |
 Malay: batu |
 Dutch: vuursteen |
 Norwegian: flint(estein) |
 Polish: krzemień |
 Persian: سنگ چخماق |
 Pashto: بکره |
 Portuguese: pederneira |
 Romanian: silex |
 Russian: кремень |
 Slovak: pazúrik |
 Slovenian: kremen |
 Serbian: kremen |
 Swedish: flinta, flintsten |
 Thai: หินที่ใช้เป็นเครื่องมือขอ |
 Turkish: çakmak taşı |
 Taiwanese: 燧石 |
 Ukrainian: кремінь |
 Urdu: سنگ خارا |
 Vietnamese: đá rất cứng |
 Chinese: 燧石 |
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