flint

FREQ #9622

n. 打火石, 燧石, 极硬的东西 [化] 燧石

发音

US /flɪnt/

词形变化

flints 复数 flints flinted flinting flints 三单 flinting 现在分词 flinted 过去式 flinted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    燧石

    不可数 可数

    He used flint to make a fire.

  2. 2.

    A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.

    可数 不可数

    He used a flint to make a fire.

  3. 3.

    A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    Anything figuratively hard.

    可数 比喻 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

silica silicon dioxide silicon oxide

下位词 3

flintstone firestone gunflint

相关短语

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词源

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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