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