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FLINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Flint" is a part of...):
Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
Synonyms:
Flint; Flint River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Flint" is a part of...):
Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State (a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("flint" is a kind of...):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flint"):
gunflint (the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon)
firestone (a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire)
flintstone (pebbles of flint used in masonry construction)
Derivation:
flinty (containing flint)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
Example:
the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart
Synonyms:
flint; flinty; granitic; obdurate; stony
Classified under:
Similar:
hardhearted; heartless (lacking in feeling or pity or warmth)
Context examples:
Or cut 'em down like that much pork? That would have been Flint's, or Billy Bones's.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Yet when Alleyne had passed him, of a sudden, out of pure devilment, he screamed out a curse at him, and sent a jagged flint stone hurtling past his ear.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am laying down good intentions, which I believe durable as flint.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Let us walk along the cliffs together and search for flint arrows. We are more likely to find them than clues to this problem. To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With tools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the Yahoos draw home the sheaves in carriages, and the servants tread them in certain covered huts to get out the grain, which is kept in stores.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Now, Jim, you tell me true: that ain't Flint's ship?” he asked.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
All along the woodland track there did indeed run a scattered straggling trail of blood-marks, sometimes in single drops, and in other places in broad, ruddy gouts, smudged over the dead leaves or crimsoning the white flint stones.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was stretched Sarah Reed's once robust and active frame, rigid and still: her eye of flint was covered with its cold lid; her brow and strong traits wore yet the impress of her inexorable soul.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I took out my small provisions and after having refreshed myself, I secured the remainder in a cave, whereof there were great numbers; I gathered plenty of eggs upon the rocks, and got a quantity of dry sea-weed, and parched grass, which I designed to kindle the next day, and roast my eggs as well as I could, for I had about me my flint, steel, match, and burning-glass.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I laid by nine hundred safe, from England, and two thousand after Flint.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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