LINT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

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

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

Meaning:

Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers

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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)

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