flint vs pulp

flint

verb
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint. 

noun
  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker. 

  • A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull. 

  • 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. 

  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc. 

  • Anything figuratively hard. 

pulp

verb
  • To make or be made into pulp. 

  • To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from. 

  • To beat to a pulp. 

noun
  • A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. 

  • A mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose). 

  • The underside of a human fingertip; a finger pad. 

  • The very soft tissue in the spleen. 

  • A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper. 

  • The soft center of a tooth. 

  • A suspension of mineral particles, typically achieved by some form of agitation. 

  • The soft center of a fruit. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication. 

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