What's the difference between lint and material?

Lint


Definition:

  • (n.) Flax.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Modifications of the O'Brien, Atkinson and Lint block techniques were applied in twelve, ten, and ten patients, respectively.
  • (2) The potential for production of fine particulate from botanical trash materials plus lint and linters was determined in the laboratory by an abrasive milling test.
  • (3) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
  • (4) He says it the same way that someone brushes lint off their jacket shoulder: "Nah.
  • (5) The dust passing 38 micron stationary or rotary screens contained particles of 15 micron maximum diameter whereas dust from the 710-gmm rotary screen and tandem cyclone exhibited particles of 10 micron maximum diameter and lint fragments.
  • (6) This was not a sudden urge, a lightning reflex to pick lint off a loved one's coat.
  • (7) Critical properties and experimental methods used to measure these properties are: (a) ease of steam penetration determined by time-temperature measurements in large, double-wrapped packs subjected to steam sterilization, (b) bacterial barrierness measured by microbiological assay of initially sterile double- and single-wrapped packs contents after pack storage in hospitals, (c) compatibility with ethylene oxide sterilization measured by inactivation of spore strips and by quantities of ethylene oxide residuals after aeration of packs and (d) generation of lint by counting particles generated by flexing wrap materials.
  • (8) Fragments of lint from a disposable paper head drape were implanted into the anterior chamber of 9 rabbit eyes.
  • (9) That’s why I now work with people who know you don’t have to remove lint from the extras’ attire before we shoot.
  • (10) Dust fractions with particles less than 10 micron diameter and free of lint were obtained with a 38-micron rotary screen and tandem cyclone.
  • (11) The area of this peak increases with increasing amounts of endotoxin and may serve as a measure of endotoxin concentration in cotton lint and dust, at least when fairly high levels of endotoxin (0.50 micrograms or greater) are present.
  • (12) Significantly more GNB and endotoxin were found in botanical trash components as well as lint of raw cotton derived from the southwest and southeast growing regions as compared to similar botanical components from far west cottons.
  • (13) It seems probable that lint from contaminated fabric was the vehicle of transmission of the organism during extended surgery.
  • (14) The number of viable cells was determined at various time intervals, after inoculation onto cotton lint and a glass plate.
  • (15) Average stored gin residues in the lint and non-lint components were 13 and 60, 11 and 58, and 5 and 10 ppm for toxaphene, DEF, and paraquat, respectively, during the open storage period.
  • (16) For representative raw cottons from the 1980 USA crop we determined that 67% of the GNB and 89% of the endotoxin resided on white lint itself, from which all particulate larger than 50 micron in size had been removed manually.
  • (17) The name of Auguste Van Lint is linked with the development of facial nerve akinesia for ophthalmic surgery.
  • (18) Care should be taken in handling implants to avoid scratches, notches, and exposure to lint from towels or drapes.
  • (19) Whereas the modified O'Brien block nearly abolished voluntary muscle activity, force of lid closure and lid movement, there was only a minor decrease in the area under the EMG curve and in the force of lid closure after the modified van Lint and Atkinson blocks (about 20%).
  • (20) Whole seed passage averaged .74% in all cows fed whole linted seed during the standardization period and .45% in 6 cows fed whole linted seed during a comparison period, contrasted to 11.3% in 6 cows fed acid-delinted seed.

Material


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
  • (a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
  • (a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
  • (n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
  • (v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (2) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (3) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
  • (4) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (5) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (6) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
  • (7) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
  • (8) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (9) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
  • (10) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
  • (11) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (12) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
  • (13) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
  • (14) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (15) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
  • (16) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (17) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
  • (18) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
  • (19) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (20) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.