different between flint vs aeneolithic

English

Etymology

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Middle Dutch vlint, Old High German flins, Danish flint), from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek ??????? (plínthos)), from *(s)plei- (“to split”). More at split.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophones: Flint, Flynt

Noun

flint (countable and uncountable, plural flints)

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chert
• ferrocerium

Verb

flint (third-person singular simple present flints, present participle flinting, simple past and past participle flinted)

1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Flint”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “flint”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Middle English

Noun

flint

1. Alternative form of flynt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?int/

Noun

flint f

1. genitive plural of flinta

Swedish

Etymology 1

Clipping of flintskalle.

Noun

flint c

1. a bald head

Declension

Etymology 2

Clipping of flintskallig.

Adjective

flint (comparative mer flint, superlative mest flint)

1. (colloquial) bald

   Synonyms: (colloquial) flintis, flintskallig

Declension

English

Adjective

aeneolithic (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of Eneolithic