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Synonyms flint river
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Synonyms flinty, granitic, obdurate, stony


his flinty gaze.
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Type of silicon oxide, silicon dioxide, silica
Has types gunflint, flintstone, firestone
Derivation flinty

Examples of flint

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Flint Hills Resources donated the land for the 54-acre cemetery three years ago.
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Flint missed a chance to coach against Memphis'John Calipari for the first time.
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Flint Beecher point guard Monte Morris poses for a photo Monday, March 18, 2013.
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In addition, obsidian, flint, and other minerals were mined, worked, and traded.
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This shrub is a typical example of a tinderbox perennially in search of a flint.
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Flint takes over from Stephen Green who will become a trade minister next month.
From the guardian.co.uk
Flint has conducted more performances for the company than any other conductor.
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The past is all around us and I often find flint tools when digging in my garden.
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Flint was among fewer than 100 women in her Navy graduating class of about 850.
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  • A hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
  • Flinty: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
  • A river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River
  • A city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing
  • Flint (or flintstone) is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones.http://www.bbm.me.uk/portsdown/PH_320_Flint. ...
  • The Fast Library for Number Theory (FLINT) is a highly optimized C library for number theory applications. The two major areas of functionality currently implemented in FLINT are polynomial arithmetic over the integers and a quadratic sieve. ...
  • Flint is an Amtrak station in Flint, Michigan. It is served by the .
  • The Flint was an automobile marque that was assembled by the Flint Motors Division, Flint, Michigan between 1923 and 1927. Flint Motors was a wholly owned subsidiary of Durant Motors Company (USA).
  • Flint were a musical project fronted by Keith Flint of The Prodigy. The band consisted of Keith Flint (Lead Vocals), Jim Davies (Guitar), Kieron Pepper (Live drummer) and Rob Holliday (Bass), finally Tony Howlett (on drums).