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lint
[ lint ]
noun
- minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
- staple cotton fiber used to make yarn.
- cotton waste produced by the ginning process.
- a soft material for dressing wounds, procured by scraping or otherwise treating linen cloth.
lint
/ ±ôɪ²Ô³Ù /
noun
- an absorbent cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side, used to dress wounds, etc
- shreds of fibre, yarn, etc
- staple fibre for making cotton yarn
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Derived Forms
- ˈ±ô¾±²Ô³Ù²â, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ô¾±²Ô³Ùl±ð²õ²õ adjective
- »å±ð·±ô¾±²Ô³Ù verb (used with object)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lint1
C14: probably from Latin linteus made of linen, from ±ôÄ«²Ô³Ü³¾ flax
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On the fifth floor, inspectors said, inmates were triple-bunked in a hot cell block where the air conditioners were filled with lint.
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As he put it, “The speed of light is never going to go out of style. Gravity, lint, signs, time itself, is not going to go out of style.â€
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To the untrained eye, it looks like a speck of black lint, not much larger than the tip of a pin.
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“We have a couch pet hair remover — a reusable manual lint roller — and we’ve given up on black clothing surviving without her presence being known,†Knox says.
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A product safety engineer said the lint filter should be cleared regularly.
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