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flint

Noun

∙ A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
∙ A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
∙ A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

Verb

∙ To furnish or decorate an object with flint. transitive

Flint

Proper noun

∙ A city in Michigan
∙ An unincorporated community in Texas
∙ A town in Flintshire, Wales, at the estuary of the River Dee

BABYLON ENGLISH
flint n.
type of hard stone, variety of silica; stone which is struck together to produce sparks and start a fire; something hard and stony

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
flint
flint
\flint\ (?), n. [as. flint, akin to sw. flinta, dan. flint; cf. ohg. flins flint, g. flinte gun (cf. e. flintlock), perh. akin to gr. &?; brick. cf. plinth.]
1. (min.) a massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. it is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
2. a piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
3. anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. "a heart of flint."
flint
age. (geol.) same as stone age, under stone.
flint
brick, a fire made principially of powdered silex.
flint
glass. see in the vocabulary.
flint
implements (arch?ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones.
flint
mill. (a) (pottery) a mill in which flints are ground. (b) (mining) an obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp.
flint
stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.
flint
wall, a kind of wall, common in england, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry.
similar words(11)

flint age
flint corn
iron flint
to skin a flint
flint brick
flint stone
flint mill
flint wall
flint glass
flint implements
flint maize

WORDNET 2.0
Flint
Noun
1. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
(synonym) Flint River
(hypernym) river
(part-holonym) Georgia, Empire State of the South, Peach State, GA
2. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Michigan, Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, MI
flint
Noun
1. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
(hypernym) silica, silicon oxide, silicon dioxide
(hyponym) gunflint

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Flint
Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white or brown in colour, and often has a glassy or waxy appearance. A thin layer on the outside of the nodules is usually different in colour, typically white and rough in texture. From a petrological point of view, "flint" refers specifically to the form of chert which occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Similarly, "common chert" (sometimes referred to simply as "chert") occurs in limestone.
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Fast Library for Number Theory
The Fast Library for Number Theory (FLINT) is a C library for number theory applications. The two major areas of functionality currently implemented in FLINT are polynomial arithmetic over the integers and a quadratic sieve. The library is designed to be compiled with the GNU Multi-Precision Library (GMP) and is released under the GNU General Public License. It is developed by William Hart of the University of Warwick and David Harvey of Harvard University to address the speed limitations of the Pari and NTL libraries.
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WIKTIONARY - Yabla

flint

Noun

∙ A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
∙ A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
∙ A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

Verb

∙ To furnish or decorate an object with flint. transitive

Flint

Proper noun

∙ A city in Michigan
∙ An unincorporated community in Texas
∙ A town in Flintshire, Wales, at the estuary of the River Dee

BABYLON ENGLISH
flint n.
type of hard stone, variety of silica; stone which is struck together to produce sparks and start a fire; something hard and stony

HENGLISH - ADVANCED VERSION
flint
flint
\flint\ (?), n. [as. flint, akin to sw. flinta, dan. flint; cf. ohg. flins flint, g. flinte gun (cf. e. flintlock), perh. akin to gr. &?; brick. cf. plinth.]
1. (min.) a massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. it is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
2. a piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
3. anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint. "a heart of flint."
flint
age. (geol.) same as stone age, under stone.
flint
brick, a fire made principially of powdered silex.
flint
glass. see in the vocabulary.
flint
implements (arch?ol.), tools, etc., employed by men before the use of metals, such as axes, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones.
flint
mill. (a) (pottery) a mill in which flints are ground. (b) (mining) an obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light, but did not inflame the fire damp.
flint
stone, a hard, siliceous stone; a flint.
flint
wall, a kind of wall, common in england, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry.
similar words(11)

flint age
flint corn
iron flint
to skin a flint
flint brick
flint stone
flint mill
flint wall
flint glass
flint implements
flint maize

WORDNET 2.0
Flint
Noun
1. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
(synonym) Flint River
(hypernym) river
(part-holonym) Georgia, Empire State of the South, Peach State, GA
2. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Michigan, Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, MI
flint
Noun
1. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
(hypernym) silica, silicon oxide, silicon dioxide
(hyponym) gunflint

ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Flint
Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white or brown in colour, and often has a glassy or waxy appearance. A thin layer on the outside of the nodules is usually different in colour, typically white and rough in texture. From a petrological point of view, "flint" refers specifically to the form of chert which occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Similarly, "common chert" (sometimes referred to simply as "chert") occurs in limestone.
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Fast Library for Number Theory
The Fast Library for Number Theory (FLINT) is a C library for number theory applications. The two major areas of functionality currently implemented in FLINT are polynomial arithmetic over the integers and a quadratic sieve. The library is designed to be compiled with the GNU Multi-Precision Library (GMP) and is released under the GNU General Public License. It is developed by William Hart of the University of Warwick and David Harvey of Harvard University to address the speed limitations of the Pari and NTL libraries.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

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