What's the difference between lint and tint?

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.

Tint


Definition:

  • (n.) A slight coloring.
  • (n.) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
  • (n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
  • (n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
  • (v. t.) To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tinted self-curing sealant was applied to the entire occlusal surface of each tooth.
  • (2) The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21,000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses, and that a multiple-layer coated, tinted lens (Neo Multicoat) performed at least as well, day or night, as did the uncoated white crown lens.
  • (3) Despite the severity of the illness, Michael, eyes shielded by tinted glasses he declined to take off when asked by photographers, promised to complete the tour.
  • (4) When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the White House welcomed it with rainbow-coloured lights and many people celebrated by adding a rainbow tint to their Facebook profile.
  • (5) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
  • (6) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
  • (7) Few cars have number plates; most have black-tinted windows.
  • (8) Clinical examination showed green tinting toward the distal ends of the most superficial strands of hair.
  • (9) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
  • (10) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
  • (11) Nostalgia was the soldiers’ malady – a state of mind that made life in the here and now a debilitating process of yearning for that which had been lost: rose-tinted peace, happiness, loved ones.
  • (12) Mark Curry, founder and director at MAD Ventures says Singles Day will act as “both a great launch pad to showcase TINT to the Chinese market and as an opportunity to drive trial” of the new product.
  • (13) The Guardian view on the automated future: fewer shops and fewer people | Editorial Read more The problem with this rose-tinted view of automation, however, is its focus on big averages that take little account of individuals’ experiences.
  • (14) We noted a statistically significant correlation between hemoglobin concentration and the following: color tint of the lower eyelid conjunctiva, nail-bed rubor, nail-bed blanching, and palmar crease rubor.
  • (15) There is a political tint to this whole episode,” he added, claiming the media was taking its cue from Democrats.
  • (16) He relished his public status as no-nonsense voice of a common-sense socialism that had an increasingly nationalistic tint.
  • (17) "People with rose-tinted glasses are more responsive to positive things in the environment.
  • (18) Different dyes were used to tint Soflens contact lenses.
  • (19) Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] was measured by both a radial immunodiffusion (RID) kit from Immuno AG (Zurich, Switzerland) and a Tint Elize enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit from CytRx Biopool Ltd. (Umeå, Sweden) in serum samples that had been stored at -20 and -70 degrees C for six months.
  • (20) The transmittance properties of 96 tinted lenses were examined to determine whether these lenses met the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z80.3 standards for traffic signal transmittances and color shifts.

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