| 单词 | flint |
| 释义 | flint (once / 1478 pages) 1n 2adj Flint is a very hard type of rock. Ever since humans first learned to make tools, back in the Stone Age, they've used flint. Through history, flint has been used for sharp tools, in walls and buildings, for making sparks to start fires, and in jewelry and pottery. You can also use the word figuratively, to mean a quality of hardness or even cruelty in a someone's personality: "The flint in his nature made him unsympathetic even to the most pitiful crying child." WORD FAMILYflint: flints, flinty+/flinty: flintier, flintiest, flintily USAGE EXAMPLESThe canoe was heaped with valuable trade goods: copper, flint, weapons, textiles, and beer. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The radioactive element is produced when cosmic rays - that constantly shower the Earth - hit oxygen atoms in the flints' quartz minerals. BBC(Nov 07, 2016) “Trump doesn’t need to pour gasoline over his head. Just drop a flint in that nest of dry brush he calls a haircut.” Salon(Oct 12, 2016) 1 n a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony 2Hypo|Hyper gunflint the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon firestonea piece of flint that is struck to light a fire flintstonepebbles of flint used in masonry construction silica, 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 adj showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings Syn flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony hardhearted, heartless lacking in feeling or pity or warmth Flint (once / 3281 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY Flint: Flints USAGE EXAMPLESKREM-TV reports it happened around 4 a.m. on Highway 2 near Flint about a mile east of Airway Heights. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The Rebels held off Flint Hill, 50-46, in overtime in night’s second semifinal. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) New Flint charges: Who’s responsible when government fails? Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1 n a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing 2Exp city, metropolis, urban center a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts n a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River Syn|Exp Flint River river a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) |
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