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Definition: Lint |
LintNoun1. Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers. 2. Cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lint" was first used: 1392. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Lint [from Unix's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1. vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp. if in C, esp. if via use of automated analysis tools, most esp. if the Unix utility `lint(1)' is used. This term used to be restricted to use of `lint(1)' itself, but (judging by references on Usenet) it has become a shorthand for desk check at some non-Unix shops, even in languages other than C. Also as v. delint. 2. n. Excess verbiage in a document, as in "This draft has too much lint". Source: Jargon File. |
Food & Agriculture | The middle panel or a trammel net made of small mesh netting. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A fibrous coat of thickened convoluted hairs borne by the seeds of cotton plants and constitutiong the staple of cotton fiber after ginning. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The cotton fibres separated from the seed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lint is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Lint proper. On January 1st, 2000 Lint had a total population of 7,864 (3,883 males and 3,981 females). The total area is 5.72 km² which gives a population density of 1,374.83 inhabitants per km². See also: Lint programming toolSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lint."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Lint is a programming tool that first appeared (outside of Bell Labs) in the seventh version (V7) of the UNIX operating system in 1979. It was a part of PCC, the Portable C Compiler, which was a second compiler included with that system (aside from the principal PDP-11 compiler).Lint performs the lexical and syntatic portions of the compilation with substantial additional checks, noting when variables had been used before being set, when they were used as a datatype other than that of their definition, and numerous other programming errors.
The name of the program was derived from the notion that it would lead to "cleaner", more desirable programming, by picking the "lint" -- little bits of fluff -- out of one's code.
Many of the forms of analysis performed by Lint are also required by optimising compilers, so nowadays compiler warnings provide many of the features of Lint. Still, Lint can do some analysis which compilers typically don't do, such as cross-module consistency checking, and checking that the code will be portable to other compilers.
See also: splint
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lint programming tool."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Expensive navel lint. (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney) You are navel lint! (Moonlighting; writing credit: Eric Blakeney) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Consumer Goods | |
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 | Agricultural engineer Stanley Anthony inspects trash removed from cotton during the ginning process. About 100 pounds of foreign matter is cleaned from cotton for every 500 pounds of lint ginned. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Cotton merchants with cotton lint on suits in Memphis cotton exchange, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Leaf Close-Up" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "For a while I put everything under the macro lens before I threw it out. Lint, garbage, rocks in my shoes. photo: Gabino Travassos." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
O. Henry Porter | She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There being no lint, the doctor stopped the flow of blood from the wounds temporarily with rolls of wadding |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The public sector is by far the main supplier for many textile products such as lint, yarn, and fabrics. (references) | |
Economic History | Brazil | Total production for marketing year 2000/01 (Aug-Jul) is estimated at 862 thousand metric tons (tmt), lint cotton, up 28 percent from last year. (references) |
Brazil | Domestic cotton consumption for MY 2000/01 and 2001/02 are projected at 950 tmt, lint cotton, although uncertainties with regard to Brazilian economic conditions may affect near-term cotton demand. (references) | |
Pakistan | In addition to this the industry also faces increasing problems with contamination of local lint, therefore mills find it very attractive to import upland cotton, especially for their export programs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.55% of the time. "Lint" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.55% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lint" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lint | Last name | 1,000 | 12,581 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lint": ball of lint ♦ bit of lint ♦ ginned lint ♦ lint cotton ♦ Lint doctor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lint": lint-bandage, lint-filled, lint-free, lint-haired. | |
Ending with "lint": navel-lint. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | garzë (gauze). (various references) | |
Arabic | نسيل, ضمادة (bandage, dressing, ligature, pad, stupe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мъх от влакна, марля (gauze). (various references) | |
Czech | cupanina. (various references) | |
Danish | lint (lint cotton), indergarn (inner net), bomuldshår. (various references) | |
Dutch | lint (ribbon), vluwe,vlouw (inner net), fluwe (inner net, trammel, trammel net), flouw (inner net, trammel, trammel net). (various references) | |
Farsi | فتیله(نظ.), پارچه زخم بندی , کهنه (Ancient, Antique, Archaic, Bygone, Clout, Dead, Gray, Musty, Obsolescent, Obsolete, Old, Olden, Pokey, Ragged, Rundown, Shabby, Tacky, Timeworn, Wad), لیف کتان , ضایعات پنبه . (various references) | |
Finnish | siemenistä puhdistettu puuvilla, riimuverkon liina (inner net). (various references) | |
French | lint (lint cotton), tissu ouaté, soie, peluches, flue, coton égrené (ginned cotton lint, ginned lint), charpie. (various references) | |
German | Lint-Baumwolle (lint cotton), scharpie (bourette, charpie), Papierstau (jam, jamming), mull (garden peat, gauze, mull, muslin), Inngarn (inner net), fussel (fluff), entkörnte Baumwolle. (various references) | |
Greek | στουπί (oakum, tow, wad, wadding, without juice), ξαντό, μεσαίο δίχτυ των μανωμένων διχτυών (inner net), οι κυρίως ίνες του βαμβακόσπορου. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kötszer (bandage). (various references) | |
Italian | pezza interna del tremaglio (inner net), garza (gauze, Tiffany). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 臍のゴマ (belly button lint). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へそのゴマ (belly button lint). (various references) | |
Manx | lieen (linen, net, netting), cadee lieen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | linter, miúdo (kid), gaze (cheesecloth, gauze, gossamer, veiling), filaça de algodão (lint cotton), fibra de algodão, algodão descaroçado (ginned cotton lint, lint cotton, picked cotton, raw cotton). (various references) | |
Romanian | scamã (flue, fluff, fuzz, nap, squama), puf (bloom, down, floss, flue, fluff, fuzz, nap), fitil (fuse, lighter, match, squib, Wick), fir (bit, clue, grain, hair, particle, purl, stitch, thread, tittle, wire), fibrã (fiber, fibre, grain, staple, string, thread). (various references) | |
Russian | корпия. (various references) | |
Scottish | lìon (a net, become full, fill, fill in, fill up, fishing net, flax, how many?, net, network, replenish, satiate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otpaci od prediva, neupredeno pamučno vlakno. (various references) | |
Spanish | hilas (bourette, charpie). (various references) | |
Swedish | linneskav, moll (minor). (various references) | |
Thai | กระเป๋าแห้ง (Bernie Flint, borasic lint). (various references) | |
Turkish | pamuk tiftiğini ayıklamak, pamuk tiftiği, keten tiftiği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | волокно бавовнику. (various references) | |
Welsh | naddion (chips, shreds). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | linum. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | linette. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lint": lintel, lintels, linter, linters, lintier, lintiest, lintless, lintol, lintols, lints, lintwhite, lintwhites, linty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "lint": elint, flint, glint, gunflint, skinflint, splint. (additional references) | |
Words containing "lint": blintz, blintze, blintzes, clintonia, clintonias, elints, flinted, flintier, flintiest, flintily, flintiness, flintinesses, flinting, flintlike, flintlock, flintlocks, flints, flinty, glinted, glinting, glints, gunflints, plinth, plinths, shinsplints, skinflints, splinted, splinter, splintered, splintering, splinters, splintery, splinting, splints. (additional references) | |
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"Lint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blint, elint, iltn, int, laint, lant, lena, lendt, lernt, liant, liat, libn, lict, ligt, ligtu, lihn, liht, liin, lijn, limt, lina, linc, Lindt, linet, lini, linit, linot, lintl, linto, lints, lintt, linx, liny, lipt, litt, liut, liuti, lizt, lni, lnid, loint, lont, lonth, ltin, Lynott, oint, zint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lint" (pronounced li"nt) |
| 4 | l i" n t | Flint, glint, splint. |
| 3 | -i" n t | imprint, dint, hint, mint, misprint, print, quint, reprint, sprint, squint, stint, tint. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: lin, lit, nil, nit, til, tin. | |
-2 letters: in, it, li, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: elint, flint, glint, inlet, lints, linty, unlit, until. | |
+2 letters: blintz, catlin, client, dentil, elints, enlist, entail, entoil, flints, flinty, gentil, glints, incult, indult, inlets, instal, instil, insult, latino, lattin, lectin, lenity, lentic, lentil, linnet, lintel, linter, lintol, listen, litany, litten, lotion, lutein, luting, nitril, pintle, plaint, pliant, plinth, pontil, ratlin, silent, splint, sunlit, talion, tenail, thinly, tiglon, tiling, tincal, tineal, tinful, tingle, tingly, tinily, tinkle, tinkly, tinsel, toling, tonsil, trinal, wintle. | |
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