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Examples of lint
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Ed Atkins is another newbie picking up accolades and exhibition slots like lint.
From the guardian.co.uk
Jones'warm, lulling voice and lint-free arrangements have the same sweet effect.
From the jsonline.com
Lint can't travel that far, falls down and accumulates at the back of her dryer.
From the dailyherald.com
To dust lampshades, I used a clothing lint roller, and all of the dust came off.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Smooth metal vent pipe is recommended for dryers because they collect less lint.
From the ocregister.com
The vent holes on the side have hairs stuck in them, small hairs and white lint.
From the npr.org
Take an old blush brush and use it to clean out the little holes caked with lint.
From the washingtonpost.com
The only trouble was that the Pacers stuck to them like lint on a winter sweater.
From the dailynews.com
He has faced both ways on Europe, and he picks up and discards ideas like lint.
From the time.com
- Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
- Cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
- In computer programming, lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely to be bugs) in C language source code. ...
- A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds; clinging fuzzy fluff that accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc; the fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
- (Linting) The accumulation of small paper fibers on blankets, plates, or rollers with the result that the printed image looks mottled or fuzzy, especially in solid areas.
- The material removed from paper due to linting,
- N. A program written by Steve Johnson as companion to his pcc, for performing cross-file and other error checking not normally performed by C compilers. The name supposedly derives from the bits of fluff it picks from programs. vt. To check a program with lint.
- (1) cotton fibers, usually loose on the surface of textile goods; (2) any small unintended foreign substance trapped in the first or second surfaces of a print and visible by sight or feel; (3) paper dust loose on the surface of paper products; (4) clinging bits of fuzz.
- Paper fragments or dust on the sheet. Excess lint can contaminate copiers and printers.
