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Flinted vs Glinted - What's the difference?

flinted | glinted |

As verbs the difference between flinted and glinted

is that flinted is past tense of flint while glinted is past tense of glint.

flinted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (flint)

    • flint

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * gunflint

    See also

    * chert * ferrocerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

    • glinted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (glint)

    • Anagrams

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    glint

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short flash of light.
    • I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flash briefly.
  • To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
    • (Robert Burns)