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Definition: Gunflint |
GunflintNoun1. The piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb: |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gunflint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gunflint" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gunflint trail | 46 |
gunflint lodge | 41 |
gunflint | 11 |
gunflint trail mn | 4 |
gunflint lake | 3 |
gunflint pine | 3 |
gunflint lodge minnesota | 3 |
gunflint trail resort | 3 |
gunflint trail minnesota | 3 |
gunflint trail.com | 3 |
gunflint trail lodging | 3 |
estate gunflint real trail | 2 |
gunflint trail outfitters | 2 |
gunflint map trail | 2 |
gunflint pine resort | 2 |
gunflint lodge mn | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gunflint": gunflints. (additional references) | |
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"Gunflint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gunfleet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gunflint" (pronounced gu"nfli'nt) |
| 3 | -i' n t | blueprint, fingerprint, footprint, forint, newsprint, peppermint, varmint. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-i-l-n-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fluting, lunting. | |
-2 letters: ingulf, luting, tinful, tuning. | |
-3 letters: fling, flint, flung, fungi, glint, guilt, lungi, unfit, unlit, until. | |
-4 letters: flit, gift, gilt, glut, gulf, iglu, lift, ling, linn, lint, litu, lung, lunt, ting, tung, unit. | |
-5 letters: fig, fil, fin, fit, flu, fug, fun, gin, git, gnu, gul, gun, gut, inn, lin, lit, lug, nil, nit. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-i-l-n-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: flaunting, gunflints. | |
+2 letters: antifungal. | |
+3 letters: antifouling, antifungals, flauntingly, fulminating, outflanking, sulfonating, unfaltering. | |
+4 letters: faultfinding, fluorinating, genuflecting, genuflection, infibulating, insufflating, unflattering. | |
+5 letters: confabulating, faultfindings, genuflections, infuriatingly, unfalteringly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 75 6E 66 6C 69 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. ..- -. ..-. .-.. .. -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110101 01101110 01100110 01101100 01101001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G u n f l i n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0075 006E 0066 006C 0069 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4187807278758086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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