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How to pronounce “flint”
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Pronunciation guide for flint
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of flint with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
- Definition summary
- 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.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce flint
A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “flint”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
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