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Flint

//flɪnt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Georgia, named after the Flint River.
  2. 2
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Pike County, Illinois.
  3. 3
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
  4. 4
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A former unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky.
  5. 5
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan.

    "Each one claimed they were unjustly criticized, while claiming to have had Flint residents in mind."

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  1. 6
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Genesee County, Michigan, adjacent to the city.
  2. 7
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sharon Township, Franklin County, Ohio.
  3. 8
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.
  4. 9
    A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia.
  5. 10
    A placename:; A town and community with a town council in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472).
  6. 11
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable

    "He used flint to make a fire."

  2. 2
    a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony wordnet
  3. 3
    A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Anything figuratively hard. countable, figuratively, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To furnish or decorate an object with flint. transitive

    "No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's (yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.

Etymology 2

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.

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