flint

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, uncountable) A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
3. (countable, uncountable) A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
4. (countable, uncountable) A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Anything figuratively hard.

Verb

To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

Έννοιες

πυρίτης

πυρόλιθος

στουρνάρι

τσακμακόπετρα

πέτρα

πυριτόλιθος

Συνώνυμα

obsidian

flint stone

firestone

stone

🪨

arrowhead

flintstone

obdurate

flinty

pyrites

stony

granitic

silex

silica

flint for lighter

gunflint

hard

hardcore

hard-core

harsh

heavy

inexorable

intense

iron

keen

loud

opal

pebble

rough

ruffianly

severe

sharp

steely

stern

stiff

strict

tall

tough

unforgiving

unrelenting

stone knife

unmalleable

ball-breaker

ball-buster

spark producer

lighter flint

flintrock

austere

bad

👎

big

bitter

Μεταφράσεις

silex

pedernal

Feuerstein

vuursteen

selce

kiezelsteen

sílex

Flint

sílex

çakmaktaşı

pierre à fusil

pierre à briquet

pietra focaia

Silex

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/flɪnt/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: flynt

Κληρονομήθηκε από Παλαιά Αγγλικά: flint

Συγγενές με Ολλανδικά: vlint

Συγγενές με Γερμανικά: Flins

Συγγενές με Δανικά: flint

Συγγενές με Ιρλανδικά: slinn

Συγγενές με Αρχαία Ελληνικά: πλίνθος

In summary

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.