flint
IPA: fɫˈɪnt
noun
- A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
- A placename
- A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas, United States.
- A town in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472).
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
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Examples of "flint" in Sentences
- Flint is old, ornery, cranky, and gruff.
- The back of the flint glass lens is flat.
- This was struck by the flint and fired the weapon.
- The gas is then ignited with the flint taped to the hammer.
- The lower parts of the formation contain flint concretions.
- Flint and stone was the livelihood of most utilitarian tools.
- The area is rich in flint especially in the Butmir neighborhood.
- The rest of the building is of irregular flint with some brickwork.
- I've restored the redlinks to the three contemporaneous Flint papers.
- Their second challenge was to start a fire using flint, steel, wood and tinder.
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