Lint vs. Fuzz — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lint and Fuzz
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Lint
Clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz.
Fuzz
A mass or coating of fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles; down
The fuzz on a peach.
Lint
Downy material obtained by scraping linen cloth and used for dressing wounds.
Fuzz
The police.
Lint
The mass of soft fibers surrounding the seeds of unginned cotton.
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Fuzz
To cover with fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles.
Lint
Clinging fuzzy fluff that clings to fabric or accumulates in one's pockets or navel etc.
Clean the lint out of the vacuum cleaner's filter.
Fuzz
To make blurred or indistinct
Fuzzing the difference between the two candidates.
Worked quickly to fuzz up the details of the scandal.
Lint
A fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth; used for dressing wounds.
Fuzz
To become blurred or obscure.
Lint
The fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant.
Fuzz
A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
Lint
Raw cotton ready for baling.
Fuzz
Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
Lint
To perform a static check on (source code) to detect stylistic or programmatic errors.
You should lint your JavaScript code before committing it.
Fuzz
(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
Lint
Flax.
Fuzz
A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
Lint
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.
Fuzz
A state of befuddlement.
Lint
Fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
Fuzz
The police, or any law enforcement agency.
Lint
Cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
Fuzz
(transitive) To make fuzzy.
Fuzz
(intransitive) To become fuzzy.
Fuzz
To make drunk.
Fuzz
(computing) To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input.
Fuzz
To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.
Fuzz
To make drunk.
Fuzz
To fly off in minute particles.
Fuzz
Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
Fuzz
Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant;
Peach fuzz
Fuzz
Uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
Fuzz
A hazy or indistinct representation;
It happened so fast it was just a blur
He tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz
Fuzz
The first beard of an adolescent boy
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