different between lint vs fiber

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English lynet, linet, from Old French linette (“grain of flax”), diminutive of lin (“flax”); or, from Medieval Latin linteum, from Latin l?num (“flax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: Lent (with pin-pen merger)

Noun

lint (usually uncountable, plural lints)

1. A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
2. Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.

3. The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
4. Raw cotton ready for baling.

Derived terms

• lint-free, lintfree

Translations

Etymology 2

From the lint Unix utility, written in 1979, which analyses programs written in the C language, itself named after the undesirable bits of fiber and fluff found in sheep's wool (see etymology 1).

Verb

lint (third-person singular simple present lints, present participle linting, simple past and past participle linted)

1. (transitive, computing) To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.

References

Anagrams

• Int'l, int'l, intl.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/

Noun

lint (plural linte, diminutive lintjie)

1. A ribbon, band, tape.

Cimbrian

Noun

lint f

1. lind, linden

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Probably a shortening of Middle Dutch lijnde (“rope”), from line (modern lijn). Alternatively from Latin linteum (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/
• Hyphenation: lint
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

lint n (plural linten, diminutive lintje n)

1. A ribbon, a cloth band or non-textile (non-adhesive) tape.
2. (metonymically, chiefly diminutive) A decoration, a medal, especially in chivalric, civil and military contexts.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lint

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin l?ns, lentem. Compare Italian and Venetian lente, lent, Romanian linte.

Noun

lint f

1. A lentil.

Middle English

Noun

lint

1. Alternative form of lynet

English

Alternative forms

• fibre (chiefly British)

Etymology

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fa?.b?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fa?.b?/
• Rhymes: -a?b?(r)

Noun

fiber (countable and uncountable, plural fibers) (American spelling)

1. (countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.

2. (uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.

3. (textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.

4. Dietary fiber.

5. (figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.

6. (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

   Holonyms: bundle, fiber bundle

   Meronym: germ

7. (category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
8. (computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• FBIer, brief, fibre

Danish

Noun

fiber c (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibre, definite plural fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?éb?rus. Doublet of beber.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fi.ber/, [?f?b?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fi.ber/, [?fi?b?r]

Noun

fiber m (genitive fibr?); second declension

1. beaver

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Synonyms

• castor (more common), beber (Late Latin)

Derived terms

• fibr?nus

References

• fiber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fibra (“fiber, filament”), possibly from *fidber or *findber, from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”).

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibere or fibre or fibrer, definite plural fiberne or fibrene)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

References

• “fiber” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fiber m (definite singular fiberen, indefinite plural fibrar, definite plural fibrane)

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Derived terms

• fiberoptisk
• fiberrik
• karbonfiber
• naturfiber

References

• “fiber” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

fiber c

1. fibre (UK), fiber (US)

Declension