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/flɪnt/ · noun
(uncountable) 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.
Some of the enormous fragments of chalk which are interstratified with drift have not only layers of undisturbed flints, but also sandpipes in the middle of them, or cylindrical cavities filled with sand and gravel […]
In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.
He used a flint to make a fire.
No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's (yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil.
No change from the primordial doth appear, / Within the earth’s rotation of the year, / Nor are ye heirless of her sane decree, / The problem is potentiality / Of Spring and Autumn, burdenful with Fate, / Upon the seeds of labour ye must wait, / Sowing the Consequence by which ye came, / Flinting the fire not to fire but flame, / With all the end of Destiny the same!
The sun had warmed the air to a balmy 45 degrees and sent sparks flinting off the bleachy white snow.
Use flint when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Flint means (uncountable) 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..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He used flint to make a fire.
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