flint

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. uncountable
    — He used flint to make a fire.
  2. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. countable,uncountable
    — He used a flint to make a fire.
  3. A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. countable,uncountable
  4. A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull. countable,uncountable
  5. Anything figuratively hard. countable,figuratively,uncountable
  6. A tailor's employee who is paid by the day. UK,countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To furnish or decorate an object with flint. transitive
    — No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's (yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil.

词形变化

flints plural flints present,singular,third-person flinting participle,present flinted participle,past flinted past

词汇关系

衍生词
eccentric flint fix someone's flint Flint flint corn flint disease flint-eyed flinthead flint-hearted flintify flintiness flintknapper flintknapping flintless flintlike flintlock flint mill flint paper flintstone flintware flintwood flintwork flintworker flinty gunflint iron flint nonflint semiflint skin a flint skinflint
相关词
chert ferrocerium

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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