Library / English Dictionary

LINT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lint" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("lint" is a kind of...):

fiber; fibre (a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn)

Meronyms (substance of "lint"):

raveling; ravelling (a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb lint

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