flint
/flɪnt/ اسم C1باللغة العربية: صَوَّان، ظُرَر، قَدَّاح، صَوَّانَة
- 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. · He used flint to make a fire.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. · He used a flint to make a fire.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- Anything figuratively hard.
الجمع flints
من المكتبة
Sometimes he weeps bitterly, sometimes laughs boisterously, at other time he passes hours on the seashore, flinging stones in the water and when the flint makes ‘duck-and-drake’ five or six times, he appears as delighted as if he had gained another Marengo or Austerlitz.
“Oh, here are two flints and a piece of burnt linen.”
There was a cabinet of flint instruments.
"It is quite superficial." His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face.
نتائج أخرى
تعلّم flint في نصوص حقيقية
مع حساب مجاني، مرّر المؤشر فوق أي كلمة في المكتبة لترى معناها، واستمع إليها مقروءة بصوت عالٍ، واحفظ الكلمات لمراجعتها في مواعيد تناسب ذاكرتك، واعرف مقدار ما تعرفه من كل كتاب.