ALL meanings of lint
lint
L l - noun lint minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread. 1
- noun lint staple cotton fiber used to make yarn. 1
- noun lint cotton waste produced by the ginning process. 1
- noun lint a soft material for dressing wounds, procured by scraping or otherwise treating linen cloth. 1
- noun lint fabric fibres 1
- noun lint medical dressing material 1
- noun Technical meaning of lint A Unix C language processor which carries out more thorough checks on the code than is usual with C compilers. Lint is named after the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs. Judging by references on Usenet this term has become a shorthand for desk check at some non-Unix shops, even in languages other than C. Also used as delint. 1
- noun lint Short, fine fibers that separate from the surface of cloth or yarn, especially during processing. 1
- noun lint a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds. 0
- noun lint clinging fuzzy fluff that accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc. 0
- noun lint the fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant. 0
- verb lint (computing) Statically check a source code to detect stylistic or programmatic errors. 0
- uncountable noun lint Lint is cotton or linen fabric which you can put on your skin if you have a cut. 0
- uncountable noun lint Lint is small unwanted threads or fibres that collect on clothes. 0
- noun lint an absorbent cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side, used to dress wounds, etc 0
- noun lint shreds of fibre, yarn, etc 0
- noun lint staple fibre for making cotton yarn 0
- noun lint scraped and softened linen formerly used as a dressing for wounds 0
- noun lint cotton fiber used to make yarn 0
- noun lint the waste cotton remaining after ginning 0
- noun lint bits of thread, ravelings, or fluff from cloth or yarn 0
- noun lint this fluff caught by a removable screen in a clothes dryer 0
- intransitive verb lint to give off lint or fluff 0