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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.

flint

(flĭnt)

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

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.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

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flint

(flɪnt)

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

(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]

Flint

(flɪnt)

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.

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

Present
I flint
you flint
he/she/it flints
we flint
you flint
they flint

Preterite
I flinted
you flinted
he/she/it flinted
we flinted
you flinted
they flinted

Present Continuous
I am flinting
you are flinting
he/she/it is flinting
we are flinting
you are flinting
they are flinting

Present Perfect
I have flinted
you have flinted
he/she/it has flinted
we have flinted
you have flinted
they have flinted

Past Continuous
I was flinting
you were flinting
he/she/it was flinting
we were flinting
you were flinting
they were flinting

Past Perfect
I had flinted
you had flinted
he/she/it had flinted
we had flinted
you had flinted
they had flinted

Future
I will flint
you will flint
he/she/it will flint
we will flint
you will flint
they will flint

Future Perfect
I will have flinted
you will have flinted
he/she/it will have flinted
we will have flinted
you will have flinted
they will have flinted

Future Continuous
I will be flinting
you will be flinting
he/she/it will be flinting
we will be flinting
you will be flinting
they will be flinting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been flinting
you have been flinting
he/she/it has been flinting
we have been flinting
you have been flinting
they have been flinting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been flinting
you will have been flinting
he/she/it will have been flinting
we will have been flinting
you will have been flinting
they will have been flinting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been flinting
you had been flinting
he/she/it had been flinting
we had been flinting
you had been flinting
they had been flinting

Conditional
I would flint
you would flint
he/she/it would flint
we would flint
you would flint
they would flint

Past Conditional
I would have flinted
you would have flinted
he/she/it would have flinted
we would have flinted
you would have flinted
they would have flinted

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flint

Dark, smooth, shiny chert.

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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

Translations

حَجر قَدّاحَهصَوّان

pazourekkamínek

flintflintestensten

Feuerstein Flint

pedernal piedra sílex

silex pierre

kovakõtûzkõ

eldsteinn, kvarssteinntinnatinna, tinnusteinn

selce acciarino pietra focaia pietrina

akmenėlistitnagas

krama-krams

flint

кремень огниво

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

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

flint

[ˈflɪnt]

(= stone) → silex m

(in lighter) → pierre f (à briquet)

modif [arrowhead, tool] → en silex

flint

(for cigarette lighter) → Feuerstein m

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

flint

flint axe

n → (Feuer)steinbeil nt

flint glass

n → Flintglas nt

flintlock

n → Steinschlossgewehr nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

flint

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

flint

(flint) noun

1. (also adjective) (of) a kind of very hard stone. Prehistoric man used flint knives.

2. a piece of hard mineral from which sparks can be struck. I must buy a new flint for my cigarette-lighter.

References in classic literature ?

I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet, but it is on the one hand distantly and indirectly related to Flint's Pond, which is more elevated, by a chain of small ponds coming from that quarter, and on the other directly and manifestly to Concord River, which is lower, by a similar chain of ponds through which in some other geological period it may have flowed, and by a little digging, which God forbid, it can be made to flow thither again.

Flint's, or Sandy Pond, in Lincoln, our greatest lake and inland sea, lies about a mile east of Walden.

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I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain.

Well, then, you get on a horse, and go to-- well, yes, I will!--to that eternal doctor swab, and tell him to pipe all hands--magistrates and sich--and he'll lay 'em aboard at the Admiral Benbow--all old Flint's crew, man and boy, all on 'em that's left.

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For instance, what reader but knows that Mr Allworthy felt, at first, for the loss of his friend, those emotions of grief, which on such occasions enter into all men whose hearts are not composed of flint, or their heads of as solid materials?

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They laid the blame, however, entirely on their guns; two miserable old pieces with flint locks, which, with all their picking and hammering, were continually apt to miss fire.

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He took out a blackened pipe, filled it, lighted it with flint and steel, pulled at it until it was in a bright glow: then, suddenly held it from him and dropped something into it from between his finger and thumb, that blazed and went out in a puff of smoke.

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"I am the only man whom Barbecue feared," he urged, "and Flint feared Barbecue."

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“Don't be crabbed, my boy,” said the other, who was very coolly fixing his flint. “They say you have a hole in your left shoulder yourself, so I think Brom may give you a fire for half-price.

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Or perhaps your flints are giving out, or are worn out- that happens sometimes, you know.

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They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers.

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He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker.