Meaning of "lint" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LINT

Probably from Latin linteus made of linen, from līnum flax.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF LINT

lint  [lɪnt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LINT

Lint is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LINT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lint

Lint may mean: ▪ Fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant ▪ Lint, an accumulation of fluffy fibers that collect on fabric ▪ Navel lint, an accumulation of fluffy fibres in one's navel Lint may also refer to: ▪ Tim Armstrong, a punk rock musician, known from Operation Ivy, Rancid, and Transplants ▪ Lint, Antwerp, a municipality located in Belgium ▪ Linţ, a village in Chețani Commune, Mureş County, Romania ▪ lint, a tool to find problems in software ▪ Alstom LHB Coradia LINT, light rail vehicle built by Alstom ▪ LINT0 and LINT1, LINTX etc. the interrupt lines on x86 microprocessors ▪ LINT, a book by Steve Aylett...

Definition of lint in the English dictionary

The first definition of lint in the dictionary is an absorbent cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side, used to dress wounds, etc. Other definition of lint is shreds of fibre, yarn, etc. Lint is also staple fibre for making cotton yarn.

TRANSLATION OF LINT

Find out the translation of lint to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of lint from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lint» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 皮棉
• Translator English - Spanish: pelusa
• English: lint
• Translator English - Hindi: एक प्रकार का वृक्ष
• Translator English - Arabic: الوبر
• Translator English - Russian: нибудь вкусненькое
• Translator English - Portuguese: lint
• Translator English - Bengali: তিসি
• Translator English - French: peluche
• Translator English - Malay: Serpihan
• Translator English - German: Fussel
• Translator English - Japanese: 糸くず
• Translator English - Korean: 보풀
• Translator English - Javanese: Lint
• Translator English - Vietnamese: xơ vải
• Translator English - Tamil: பஞ்சு
• Translator English - Marathi: लिंट
• Translator English - Turkish: keten tiftiği
• Translator English - Italian: garza
• Translator English - Polish: szarpie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: небудь смачненьке
• Translator English - Romanian: scame
• Translator English - Greek: χνούδι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: pluis
• Translator English - Swedish: lint
• Translator English - Norwegian: lint

QUOTES WITH «LINT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word lint.

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O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LINT»

Discover the use of lint in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lint and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

A Course in Combinatorics

This is the second edition of a popular book on combinatorics, a subject dealing with ways of arranging and distributing objects, and which involves ideas from geometry, algebra and analysis.

J. H. van Lint, R. M. Wilson, 2001

Lint: the incredible career of cult author Jeff Lint

Jeff Lint was author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the twentieth century.

Steve Aylett, 2007

Introduction to Coding Theory

This book has long been considered one of the classic references to an important area in the fields of information theory and coding theory.

J.H. van Lint, 1999

The Onion Girl

Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story...for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now. "I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says.

Charles de Lint, 2002

Home Maintenance For Dummies

If these fixes aren't sufficient, before you consider replacing your machine, try a professionally installed plastic tub liner. ✓ Lint-filled drain line: If your water outlet hose drains into a laundry basin rather than a stand pipe, cover the end with an ...

James Carey, Morris Carey, 2011

Memory and Dream

From her mentor, Vincent Rushkin, Isabell Copley had learned to paint vivid images of creatures that literally come to life, a talent that had led to unexpected tragedy, but years after these creatures have ruined her life, Isabelle returns ...

Charles de Lint, 2007

Angel of Darkness

In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasies under the name "Samuel M. Key." Now, beginning with Angel of Darkness, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name.

Charles de Lint, 2007

Moonlight & Vines

Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novels Memory & Dream, Trader, and Someplace To Be Flying, Newford is the quintessential North American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden ...

Charles de Lint, 2007

Checking C Programs with Lint

The standard Makefile entry that I use for liming programs looks like this: LINTFLAGS = -ha # add -ha on V7; remove on USG LINTLIBS = # add any local lint libraries here lint:S(SRCS) lint $ (LINTFLAGS) $ (SRCS) $ (LINTLIBS) This runs lint ...

Ian F. Darwin, 1991

Someplace to Be Flying

Searching for a half-animal, half-human race that is believed to haunt the city's most troubled urban areas, photojournalist Lily inadvertently teams up with downtown resident Hank and finds herself enmeshed in a brutal turf war in which ...

Charles de Lint, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LINT»

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