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flint meaning in Tamil

சிக்கிமுக்கி கல்

/flɪnt/

flint in Tamil: சிக்கிமுக்கி கல், தீக்கல், நெகிழாத, கடினப்பொருள். In English, flint means 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.

Tamil words for flint

சிக்கிமுக்கி கல், தீக்கல், நெகிழாத, கடினப்பொருள்

English meaning of flint

  1. 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.
  2. noun A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
  3. noun A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
  4. noun A variety of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.

Full definition of flint

flint in a sentence

  • He used flint to make a fire.
  • He used a flint to make a fire.

flint in other languages

Questions about flint in Tamil

What is the meaning of flint in Tamil?
Flint in Tamil is சிக்கிமுக்கி கல், தீக்கல், நெகிழாத, கடினப்பொருள்.
flint என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
Flint: சிக்கிமுக்கி கல், தீக்கல், நெகிழாத, கடினப்பொருள்.
What does flint mean in English?
Flint means 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.

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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: flint (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: flint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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