Flint
[flɪnt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing.
(noun.) 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.) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
(n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
(n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
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解釋/意思:
n. a hard mineral a variety of quartz from which fire is readily struck with steel: anything proverbially hard.—adj. made of flint hard.—n. Flint′-glass a very fine and pure kind of glass so called because originally made of calcined flints.—adjs. Flint′-heart -ed (Shak.) having a hard heart.—v.t. Flint′ify to turn to flint.—ns. Flint′iness; Flint′-lock a gun-lock having a flint fixed in the hammer for striking fire and igniting the priming.—adj. Flint′y consisting of or like flint: hard: cruel.—Flint implements arrow axe and spear heads &c. made by man before the use of metals commonly found in prehistoric graves &c.
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例句/造句/用法:
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The only important improvement made in it during that long term of service was the substitution of the percussion cap for the flint lock. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There'll be more chance o' getting milk out of a flint. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- And his teaching is set like flint against asceticism, as a mere attempt to win personal power by personal pains. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Old people remember when flint-locks were plentiful everywhere. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Its head struck with such force that the early hunter decided to give it a sharp point, shaped from a flake of flint, in order that it might drive deep into the body of a deer or bear. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- His arrow heads were of flint, beautifully made, and he lashed them tightly to their shafts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Then striking a flint and steel together he held it up and blowing on the end of the cork, looked at the young man's face in its glow. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- A later and easier way was to strike flint and steel together and to catch the spark thus produced on tinder or dry fungus. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The old flint-lock was quite a modern invention, not appearing until the seventeenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Notwithstanding these ingenious attempts to produce light by chemical action, the flint-and-steel retained possession of the field until a match was made that ignited by friction alone. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The Old Man, the father and master of the group, would perhaps be engaged in hammering flints beside the fire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Probably some of the women would hunt good flints; they would fish them out of the chalk with sticks and bring them to the squatting-place. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The sharp, burning stones and flints wounded my feet and caused me extreme anguish. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It takes two flints to make a fire. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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