Значение

значений: 6

  1. (неисчисляемое)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.

    He used flint to make a fire.

    Feuerstein, Flintstein, Flint

    креме́ньkreménʹ

    кре́міньkréminʹ

  2. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.

    He used a flint to make a fire.

    Feuerstein, Zündstein

    огни́воognívo

    креса́лоkresálo, огни́воohnývo

  3. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

  4. (исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.

  5. (исчисляемое, переносно, неисчисляемое)Anything figuratively hard.

  6. (Британия, исчисляемое, устаревшее, сленг, неисчисляемое)A tailor's employee who is paid by the day.

Ещё определения
  • a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
  • a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
  • a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

Примеры

предложений: 19

  1. He struck a spark from the flint.

    Он высек искру из кремня.

    deEr schlug einen Funken aus dem Feuerstein.

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  2. What's diamond is diamond, what's flint is flint.

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  3. The landscape was cold and sharp as flint.

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  4. With patience, you can even bore through flint.

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  5. Ziri struck the flint to ignite the tinder.

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Переводы

языков: 9
Українська
По значениям 2
hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck:
piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker:
Русский
По значениям 2
hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck:
piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker:
Deutsch
По значениям 2
hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck:
piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark — see also firestriker:

Происхождение

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint,

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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Формы

мн. число: flints
Ед. числоflint
Мн. числоflints

правильный

Синонимы

синонимов: 1
Близкие по смыслу
  • 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

Однокоренные

связанных слов: 28
Связанныеchertferroceriumflinty
Производныеeccentric flintflint cornflint diseaseflint-eyedflintheadflint-heartedflintifyflintinessflintknapperflintknappingflintlessflintlikeflintlockflint millflint paperflintstoneflintwareflintwoodflintworkflintworkergunflintiron flintnonflintsemiflint

Уроки к слову

уроков: 1

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