lint
/lɪnt/
lint noun: clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
Noun
lint (usually uncountable, plural lints)
- Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
- Clean the lint out of the vacuum cleaner's filter.
- A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
- The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
- Raw cotton ready for baling.
Verb
lint (third-person singular simple present lints, present participle linting, simple past and past participle linted)
- To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.
- You should lint your JavaScript code before committing it.
Proper noun capitalized: Lint
Lint (plural Lints)
- A surname.
lint meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lint in Hindi
- लिंट
lint in Tamil
- கட்டுத்துணி, பஞ்சுத் துணி, கவலிகை, நைப்பு உறிஞ்சும் துணி, பஞ்சுத்துணி, பஞ்சு
lint in Marathi
- लिंट, लिंट करण्यासाठी, लिन्ट करण्यासाठी
lint in Urdu
- لنٹ
More languagesFewer languages
- lint in Bengali
- তন্তু, সুতার আঁশ, ক্ষতস্থানের নরম তুলা
- lint in Telugu
- లింట్, లిన్ట్
- lint in Malayalam
- വ്രണചേല, മൃദുവസ്ത്രം, പഞ്ഞിക്കഷണങ്ങൾ
- lint in Kannada
- ನವುರು ಬಟ್ಟೆ, ಬಟ್ಟೆಚೂರು
- lint in Punjabi
- ਲਿੰਟ, ਲੀੰਟ
- lint in Gujarati
- લિન્ટ, લિંટ, લિન્ટ કરવા માટે
- lint in Odia
- ଲିଣ୍ଟ, ଲିଣ୍ଟ୍
- lint in Nepali
- लिन्ट, लिण्ट, लिंट
Forms of lint
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lints |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lints |
| present participle | linting |
| past participle | linted |
| past | linted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Lints |
Origin of lint
From Middle English lynet, linet, from Old French linette (“grain of flax”), diminutive of lin (“flax”); or, from Medieval Latin linteum, from Latin līnum (“flax”).
From the lint Unix utility, written in 1979, which analyses programs written in the C language, itself named after the undesirable bits of fiber and fluff found in sheep's wool (see etymology 1).
* As an occupational English surname, from the noun lint, chiefly in the Scottish English sense "flax fibers for spinning." * As a Dutch surname, from several placenames with the element Lint, probably from linde (“lime tree”).
Words formed from lint
Phrases with lint
Words that rhyme with lint
Questions about lint
- What does lint mean?
- Lint means clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
- What is lint in Hindi?
- Lint in Hindi is लिंट. See Lint meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lint?
- Lint can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lint?
- Lint is pronounced /lɪnt/.
- What is the plural of lint?
- The plural of lint is lints.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lint (page history and authors); Lint (page history and authors); lint (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lint (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lint (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lint (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Lint (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lint (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lint (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lint (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lint (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lint (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lint (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lint (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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