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lint

[ lint ]

noun

  1. minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
  2. staple cotton fiber used to make yarn.
  3. cotton waste produced by the ginning process.
  4. a soft material for dressing wounds, procured by scraping or otherwise treating linen cloth.


lint

/ ±ôɪ²Ô³Ù /

noun

  1. an absorbent cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side, used to dress wounds, etc
  2. shreds of fibre, yarn, etc
  3. staple fibre for making cotton yarn
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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

Origin of lint1

1325–75; Middle English, variant of linnet; compare Middle French linette linseed, Old English ±ôÄ«²Ô±ð³Ù- flax (or flax-field) in ±ôÄ«²Ô±ð³Ù·É¾±²µ±ð lintwhite
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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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