flint
English Thesaurus
1. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | city, metropolis, urban center, |
| definition | : | a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts (noun.location) |
2. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River (noun.object)
| instance hypernym | : | river, |
| definition | : | a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek) (noun.object) |
3. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | silica, silicon dioxide, silicon oxide, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | gunflint, |
| definition | : | the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | firestone, |
| definition | : | a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | flintstone, |
| definition | : | pebbles of flint used in masonry construction (noun.substance) |
4. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings (adj.all)
5. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony (noun.substance)
| derivation | : | flinty, |
| definition | : | containing flint (adj.pert) |
6. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings (adj.all)
| derivation | : | stone, |
| definition | : | a lack of feeling or expression or movement (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | granite, |
| definition | : | something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | endocarp, pit, stone, |
| definition | : | the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed (noun.plant) |
7. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony (noun.substance)
| derivation | : | flinty, |
| definition | : | containing flint (adj.pert) |
8. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings (adj.all)
| derivation | : | stone, |
| definition | : | a lack of feeling or expression or movement (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | granite, |
| definition | : | something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | endocarp, pit, stone, |
| definition | : | the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed (noun.plant) |
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