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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Lint | by the DICT Development Group |
| 4 results for Lint | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Lint \Lint\ (l[icr]nt), n. [AS. l[c6]net flax, hemp, fr. l[c6]n flax; or, perh. borrowed fr. L. linteum a linen cloth, linen, from linteus linen, a., fr. linum flax, lint. See {Linen}.] 1. Flax. 2. Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. {Lint doctor} (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder. | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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lint [from Unix's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1. vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp. if in C, esp. if via use of automated analysis tools, most esp. if the Unix utility `lint(1)' is used. This term used to be restricted to use of `lint(1)' itself, but (judging by references on Usenet) it has become a shorthand for {desk check} at some non-Unix shops, even in languages other than C. Also as v. {delint}. 2. n. Excess verbiage in a document, as in "This draft has too much lint". | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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lint A {Unix} {C} language processor which carries out more thorough checks on the code than is usual with C {compiler}s. Lint is named after the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs. Judging by references on {Usenet} this term has become a shorthand for {desk check} at some non-Unix shops, even in languages other than {C}. Also used as {delint}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-14) | |
