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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
/ ɪԳ /
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
Other 51Թ Forms
- lintless adjective
- delint verb (used with object)
- ˈԳٲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lint1
Example Sentences
In any case, Biden allies “who voiced fears were flicked away like lint.”
He has been but a speck of lint on the Lakers’ lapel, a bit of dust at the end of the Lakers’ bench, a small and irrelevant bystander in the Lakers’ long and arduous journey.
On the fifth floor, inspectors said, inmates were triple-bunked in a hot cell block where the air conditioners were filled with lint.
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.”
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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