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Flint F0186800 (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 F0186800 (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.
[Middle English, from Old English.]flint (flɪnt) n1. (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: SiO22. any piece of flint, esp one used as a primitive tool or for striking fire3. a small cylindrical piece of an iron alloy, used in cigarette lighters4. (General Physics) Also called: flint glass or white flint colourless glass other than plate glass5. (Tools) See optical flintvb (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) n1. (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)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.flint
Past participle: flinted
Gerund: flinting
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flintDark, smooth, shiny chert.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  flint - a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedonygunflint - the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weaponfirestone - a piece of flint that is struck to light a fireflintstone - pebbles of flint used in masonry constructionsilica, 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 RiverFlint RiverEmpire 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 manufacturingGreat 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, flintyhardhearted, heartless - lacking in feeling or pity or warmth |
Translationsflint (flint) noun1. (also adjective) (of) a kind of very hard stone. Prehistoric man used flint knives. 燧石 燧石2. a piece of hard mineral from which sparks can be struck. I must buy a new flint for my cigarette-lighter. 電石，打火石 电石，打火石 Flint
Flint, Welsh Fflint, town (1981 pop. 11,398), Flintshire, NE Wales, on the Dee estuary. Flint has industries that produce rayon, nylon, paper, and clothing. The castle, built c.1300, was the scene of Richard II's submission to Bolingbroke in 1399.
Flint, river: see ChattahoocheeChattahoochee
, river, 436 mi (702 km) long, rising in N Ga., and flowing generally SW to the Ala.-Ga. border and then S along it to join the Flint River in Lake Seminole on the Ga.-Fla. line; the combined waters form the Apalachicola River, c.
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Flint, city (1990 pop. 140,761), seat of Genesee co., SE Mich., on the Flint River; inc. 1855. Since 1902 it has been an automobile-manufacturing centers. The General Motors Corp. had its beginnings (1908) in Flint, where many major automobile makers (Chrysler, Chevrolet, Nash, Champion, Buick) also started. A fur-trading post (1819) here was succeeded by a settlement in which lumbering and then cart and carriage making were the major industries. In 1937, sitdown strikes by the United Automobile Workers (UAW) in Flint's General Motors plants spurred widespread labor organization. During the 1980s and 90s massive layoffs at General Motors large-car factories devastated Flint's economy. Attempts at economic diversification and revitalization have had limited success, and in 2002 municipal financial problems led the state to take control of the city government. Attempts to reduced costs by switching (2014–15) the city's water supply from Detroit water to the Flint River led to health problems, most notably lead contamination, when the water's corrosiveness was not controlled. Local institutions include a branch of the Univ. of Michigan, an art institute, and the Michigan school for the deaf.
flint, variety of quartzquartz,
one of the commonest of all rock-forming minerals and one of the most important constituents of the earth's crust. Chemically, it is silicon dioxide, SiO2.
..... Click the link for more information. that commonly occurs in rounded nodules and whose crystal structure is not visible to the naked eye. Flint is dark gray, smoky brown, or black in color; pale gray flint is called chert. When found in chalk or in other rocks containing lime, the nodules frequently have a white coating. Flint is translucent to opaque. It was early used by primitive peoples for making knives and spearheads because, although it is very hard, it is more readily shaped than stone; edges can be flaked off with comparative ease, especially those of freshly dug pieces, by pressure exerted with a piece of stone or bone. Since it is not chipped by pounding, as stone is, sharper edges are obtained. Use of flint tools defines the Stone Age cultures of the Pleistocene epoch. It was long used with steel for lighting fires and later for setting off the powder in flintlock firearms.Flint a city in the northern USA, in the state of Michigan. Population, 182,000 (1975; 520,000 including suburbs). Industry employs 85,000 people (1973). A major center of the automobile industry, Flint is the site of several General Motors plants. The city also produces aircraft engines, bicycles, motorcycles, chemicals and military equipment. flint[flint] (mineralogy) A black or gray, massive, hard, somewhat impure variety of chalcedony, breaking with a conchoidal fracture. Also known as firestone. flintA dense, fine-grained stone; a form of silica; naturally occurs in the form of nodules; usually gray, brown, black, or otherwise dark in color, but nodules and other chunks tend to weather white or light shades from the surface inward. Broken “flints, ” as the nodules are called, are used in cobble size, either whole or split (knapped) in mortared walls, esp. in England.flint1. 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. colourless glass other than plate glass 3. See optical flint
Flint1. a town in NE Wales, in Flintshire, on the Dee estuary. Pop.: 11 936 (2001) 2. a city in SE Michigan: closure of the car production plants led to a high level of unemployment. Pop.: 120 292 (2003 est.) FLINT
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Words related to flintnoun a hard kind of stoneRelated Words- gunflint
- firestone
- flintstone
- silica
- silicon dioxide
- silicon oxide
noun a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola RiverSynonymsRelated Words- Empire State of the South
- Georgia
- Peach State
- GA
noun a city in southeast central Michigan near DetroitRelated Words- Great Lakes State
- Michigan
- Wolverine State
- MI
adj showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelingsSynonyms- granitic
- obdurate
- stony
- flinty
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