Flint (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
  2. a piece of this, especially 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, usually an iron alloy, used to produce a spark to ignite the fuel in a cigarette lighter.
verb (used with object)
  1. to furnish with flint.
noun
  1. U.S. physician: founder of Bellevue and Buffalo medical colleges.
  2. U.S. physiologist and physician.
  3. a city in SE Michigan.
  4. Flintshire.
noun
  1. 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: SiO 2
  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. colourless glass other than plate glass
  5. See optical flint
verb
  1. to fit or provide with a flint
noun
  1. 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)
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