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Lint vs Flint - What's the difference?

lint | flint |

As nouns the difference between lint and flint

is that lint is a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds while flint is a hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.

As a verb flint is

to furnish or decorate an object with flint.

As a proper noun Flint is

a city in Michigan.

lint

English

Noun

(-)
  • 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

    • Derived terms

    * lint-free / lintfree

    Anagrams

    * ----

    flint

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
  • A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
  • A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

    • Derived terms

    * gunflint

    See also

    * chert * ferrocerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish or decorate an object with flint.