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Lino vs Lin - What's the difference?

lino | lin |

As a proper noun lino

is , akin to linus .

As a noun lin is

flax or lin can be ling (fish).

lino

English

Noun

(-)
  • (Australia, NZ, UK, colloquial, informal)
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Dogs ...No Way , group=aus.jokes , author=Malcolm Tippett , date=July 20 , year=1996 , passage=The third thing was the TORN lino' in the kitchen , new puppy found it great fun to tear strips of '''lino''' off the floor  .. first you scrabble like crazy with your claws to start a tear , and then you use teeth to tear off a lovely strip of '''lino''' to chew . We are still too scared to replace the ' lino as the next puppy will probably do the same . citation
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    • , title=Frontline or Advantage for fleas? , group=aus.pets , author=Augie , date=October 30 , year=2002 , passage=When we moved here, the people before had dogs, complete with crawling carpet and jumping lino'. When we ripped up all the carpet and ' lino prior to moving in, we also bought half a dozen flea bombs, and bombed UNDER the house. citation
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    • , title=Found this old paper under the lino of a reno , group=aus.sport.aussie-rules , author=George W Frost , date=April 25 , year=2010 , passage=I took up the lino from the kitchen and found this newspaper clipping citation

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    lin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) linnen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To desist (from something), stop.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
    • Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
  • To cease; leave off.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From Irish or Gaelic.

    Alternative forms

    * linn * lyn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
  • A waterfall, or cataract.
    • a roaring lin
  • A steep ravine.
    • (Webster 1913)

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