Misplaced Pages

Flint (disambiguation): Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editContent deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 22:58, 7 June 2011 editNotbyworks (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users526 editsm →Fictional characters: add link to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film)← Previous edit Latest revision as of 08:10, 16 December 2024 edit undoDyspophyr (talk | contribs)321 edits →Other uses: this was too easily overlooked 
(91 intermediate revisions by 57 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{wiktionarypar|flint}} {{wiktionary|flint}}
''']''' is a type of rock. ''']''' is a type of rock.


Line 5: Line 5:


{{TOC right}} {{TOC right}}

== Places ==
===United States===
* ], an unincorporated community
* ], an unincorporated community
* ], a former unincorporated community
* ], a city
* ], an unincorporated community
* ], an unincorporated community
* ], an unincorporated community
* ]
* ], a charter township
* ], a township in ]
* ], a physiographic region located in Kansas and Oklahoma
* ], several
* ]
* ]
* ]
* The Flint, a neighborhood in ]

===Wales===
* ], a town
** ]
* ], also known as the County of Flint, one of Wales' thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county

===Elsewhere===
* ], an uninhabited atoll in the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of Kiribati
* ], Victoria Land, Antarctica

== People == == People ==
* ] (1812–1886), American physician * ]
* ], American physician * ]
* ] (born 1941), American/Hawaiian ceramicist
* ] (born 1968), American basketball coach
* ] (born 1961), British Member of Parliament for the Don Valley
* ] (1850–1934), American merchant and banker
* ], American science fiction and fantasy author and editor
* ] (1885-1960), English poet
* ] (born 1940), American philosoph and avantgarde musician
* ], 18th century British merchant and diplomat
* ] (1928–1989), English contract bridge player
* ] (born 1960), German actress
* ] (born 1969), member of the British band The Prodigy
* ], American fantasy novelist
* ] (born 1942), American magazine publisher (commonly misspelled "Flint")
* ] (1902–1976), American geologist
* ] (1838–1910), Scottish theologian and philosopher
* ] (1934-2001), American poet
* ] (1936-2009), British historian
* ] (1880–1969), Scottish artist


== Fictional characters == == Arts and entertainment ==
=== Fictional characters ===
* ], a character in the ''Wildstorm'' universe (see ''StormWatch'')
* ], a character in the G.I. Joe universe * ], in the G.I. Joe universe
* ], an Inhuman character appearing in Marvel Comics
* ], a playable character in Nintendo's ''Mother 3'' * ], a playable character in Nintendo's ''Mother 3''
* ], in the ''Pokémon'' universe
* Flint, the protagonist in the '']'' series, by Piers Anthony
* Flint, the immortal antagonist in the episode "]" of the original ''Star Trek'' series
* Flint, Ruth and Kate Galloway's cat in Elly Griffiths' ]
* Derek Flint, protagonist of the spy movie '']'' and its sequels
* Marcus Flint, in the ] books
* ], a character in the novel ''Treasure Island'' by Robert Louis Stevenson; a parrot named for him also appears in the book
* ], a dwarf in the ''Dragonlance'' chronicles * ], a dwarf in the ''Dragonlance'' chronicles
* Flint Hammerhead from '']'' * Flint Hammerhead, in the Japanese animated television series '']''
* ], a character in the 2001 Disney/Pixar animated film ''Monsters, Inc.''
* Flint Lockwood, the main character of the film '']''
* ], aka Flint Marko * ], aka Flint Marko
* ], the legendary captain of a Pirate ship, the ''Walrus'', in the novel ''Treasure Island'' by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson
* Derek Flint, the title character of '']'' (1966) and '']'' (1967), a "hipster spy" played by James Coburn
* ], the trollish and truculent captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team in the Harry Potter series
* Flint, the immortal antagonist in the episode '']'' of the original ''Star Trek'' series
* Flint, the protagonist in the '']'' series, by ]
* Flint Lockwood, the main character in '']
*], a character of the ] universe.


== Places == === Music ===
* ]
;Kiribati
* Flint, a late 1970s rock band from Flint, Michigan, formed by ex-] musicians Don Brewer, Mel Schacher and Craig Frost
* ], an atoll in the Pacific Ocean


=== Other arts and entertainment ===
;United Kingdom
* ], a town in North Wales * ], a fictional county in ''Grand Theft Auto San Andreas''
* ], a 2017 TV film about the Flint water crisis
** ]


== Computing ==
;United States
* FLINT, ]
* ], a city
* ], a charter township
* ]
* ]
* ], a physiographic region located in Kansas and Oklahoma
* ], several
* The Flint, a neighborhood in ]


== Ships ==
;Fictional
* ], later USNS ''Flint'' (T-AE-32), an ammunition ship commissioned in 1971
* ], a fictional county in ''Grand Theft Auto San Andreas''
* ], a light cruiser commissioned in 1944 as USS ''Vincennes''
* ], a cruiser of World War II


== Materials == == Sports ==
* ], a stone tool made from flint * ], a Norwegian football club
* ] ** ], a women's handball team
* ], a high school sports league in the Flint area of Michigan
* ] or "lighter flint", a spark-producing alloy


== Entertainment == == Transportation ==
* ], a Durant automobile from the 1920s named after Flint, Michigan, United States
* '']'', a 1966 science fiction action movie
* ], Flint, Wales, United Kingdom
* '']'', a 1967 sequel to the above


== Other == == Other uses ==
* ], a Durant automobile from the 1920s * ], a Roman Catholic deanery in the Diocese of Wrexham in Wales
* ], a manufacturing company based in Luxembourg
* ]
* ], an academic building and former dairy laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
* ], a former preparatory school in Sarasota, Florida, United States
* ], Amersfoort, Netherlands
* Flint, a ] that was featured in several books and documentaries * Flint, a ] that was featured in several books and documentaries
* ], also called Flint disease * ], also called Flint disease
* ], spark producing metal in cigarette lighters
* ], tornadoes in 1953

* ], first American steamship captured by Germans in WWII
==See also==
* ], an Atlanta-class cruiser of the Second World War
{{canned search|flint}}
* ], software
* {{lookfrom|flint}} * {{lookfrom|flint}}
* {{intitle|flint}} * {{intitle|flint}}
* ]


{{disambig|geo|surname}} {{disambiguation|geo}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Flint (Disambiguation)}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Flint (Disambiguation)}}

]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]
]

Latest revision as of 08:10, 16 December 2024

Flint is a type of rock.

Flint may also refer to:

Places

United States

Wales

Elsewhere

  • Flint Island, an uninhabited atoll in the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of Kiribati
  • Flint Ridge, Victoria Land, Antarctica

People

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Music

Other arts and entertainment

Computing

Ships

Sports

Transportation

Other uses

  • Flint Deanery, a Roman Catholic deanery in the Diocese of Wrexham in Wales
  • Flint Group, a manufacturing company based in Luxembourg
  • Flint Laboratory, an academic building and former dairy laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Flint School, a former preparatory school in Sarasota, Florida, United States
  • Flint (theatre), Amersfoort, Netherlands
  • Flint, a chimpanzee that was featured in several books and documentaries
  • Chalicosis, also called Flint disease
  • Ferrocerium, spark producing metal in cigarette lighters

See also

Search for "flint" on Misplaced Pages. Topics referred to by the same term Disambiguation iconThis disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flint.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Categories: