Cotton vs. Lint — What's the Difference?

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose.

Clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz.

Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.

Downy material obtained by scraping linen cloth and used for dressing wounds.

The fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.

The mass of soft fibers surrounding the seeds of unginned cotton.

Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.

Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.

Any of various soft downy substances produced by other plants, as on the seeds of a cottonwood.

A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.

To take a liking; attempt to be friendly

The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.

To come to understand. Often used with to or onto

Raw cotton ready for baling.

Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.

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

Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.

Flax.

Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.

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.

(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.

Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers

(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.

Cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds

Made of cotton.

(transitive) To provide with cotton.

To supply with a cotton wick.

To fill with a wad of cotton.

(horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.

To cover walls with fabric.

(tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )

To make or become cotton-like

To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.

To develop a porous, cottony texture.

To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.

To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.

To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.

To rub or burnish with cotton.

To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

Cloth made of cotton.

To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.

To go on prosperously; to succeed.

To unite; to agree; to make friends; - usually followed by with.

To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; - used with to.

Silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

Fabric woven from cotton fibers

Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

Thread made of cotton fibers

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