Lint vs Fiber - What's the difference?
lint | fiber |
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
(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Dietary fiber.
(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
As nouns the difference between lint and fiber
is that lint is a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds while fiber is a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.lint
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(-)Derived terms
* lint-free / lintfreeAnagrams
* ----fiber
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Alternative forms
* fibre (chiefly British)Noun
(en noun)- The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber .
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber .
- ''Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π