Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Bits, fragments, or splinters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
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- noun
fragments ,splinters - noun Plural form of
flinder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bits and splinters and fragments
- noun British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fact, the NPCs carry on conversations about local gossip while you're Keith Mooning the room to flinders, which is somehow insulting; the people here are talking about the spate of local burglaries as if it's of high importance, but your gorilla-style poo-flinging antics aren't worthy of comment.
The Uncanny Valley 2006
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We left behind us a debris field of PerfectWood flinders but -- luckily -- no bodies.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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The skull shatters into flinders and the brain melts into gray sludge.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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The skull shatters into flinders and the brain melts into gray sludge.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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F430 Spider on Flinders + Web 2.0 Glocal Downunder in 2007. flinders, mornington peninsula, australia.
F430 Spider on Flinders + Web 2.0 Glocal Downunder in 2007. Ben Barren 2007
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Sometimes, it's a train, coming your way to smash you to flinders.
April 5th, 2007 dyvinedeviance 2007
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It is a beautiful hymn and beats the flinders off some of the old chestnuts we continue to sing in the Episcopal Hymnal.
Every Star Shall Sing A Carol James F. McGrath 2009
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Post-WWII Germany could have de-Nazification because their country had been bombed to flinders.
Archive 2008-11-01 Doctor Science 2008
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Post-WWII Germany could have de-Nazification because their country had been bombed to flinders.
War crimes and reconciliation Doctor Science 2008
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And lo! as I went from under that huge and dreadful overhang of the great waters, there came downward from the height a great stone that had been cast by the Jet, and it burst upon the rock to my back, and certain of the flinders did strike and ring upon mine armour, and made me to stagger as I ran.
The Night Land 2007
caxton commented on the word flinders
flinders n pl, splinters or fragments
January 8, 2008