different between sinter vs linter

English

Etymology

From German Sinter.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?nt?/

Noun

sinter (plural sinters)

1. (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
   • 1883 June, John Magens Mello, Quartz: its Varieties and Formation, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 23,

     That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, […]

   • 1913, David Paul Gooding, Picturesque New Zealand, Chapter V,

     It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.

2. A mass formed by sintering.
   • 2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55,

     Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).

3. A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.

Verb

sinter (third-person singular simple present sinters, present participle sintering, simple past and past participle sintered)

1. To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
   • 1980, Advanced Automation for Space Missions: Appendix 4C, in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study,

     Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.

Translations

References

• “sinter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Insert, Stiner, Strine, Tiners, estrin, inerts, insert, inters, niters, nitres, terins, triens, trines

German

Pronunciation

Verb

sinter

1. inflection of sintern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

English

Etymology 1

Noun

linter (countable and uncountable, plural linters)

1. The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
2. (countable) A machine for removing these fibres.

   Synonym: delinter

3. A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats &c

See also

• lint doctor
• lint roller

Etymology 2

lint +? -er

Noun

linter (plural linters)

1. (computing) A program or algorithm that performs linting.

Latin

Etymology

From older form lunter, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to wash”); more at pluit (“it rains”). Cf. also Ancient Greek ??????? (plunt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?l?n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lin.ter/, [?lin?t??r]

Noun

linter f or m (genitive lintris); third declension

1. tub, trough
2. small light boat, skiff, canoe

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• The genitive plural is sometimes found as lintrum.

Descendants

• Albanian: ljundrë
• Aromanian: luntri, lãndurã
• Dalmatian: lundro
• Romanian: luntre

References

• linter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• linter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• linter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• linter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers