Learn English – What do you call these “rolls” on old clothes
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Below is the picture of what I mean. So, I wanna know the name of these "rolls", what are they called? Pellets? Rolls?
As you can see, some people use razors or fabric shavers to get rid of them.
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Those are commonly known as pills, or bobbles in the UK, though other terms may be in use depending on location. From Wikipedia:
A pill, colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball is a small ball of fibers that forms on a piece of cloth. 'Pill' is also a verb for the formation of such balls.
As the Wikipedia article mentions, pill is also the verb form for this, and the form pilling is sometimes used for multiple pills together, as in:
This sweater pills like crazy! I started out picking off individual pills, but I really need a shaver thing to get rid of all the pilling.
I believe the term you are looking for is "interstitial"; as defined on techtarget, it is
...a page that is inserted in the normal flow of editorial content structure on a Web site for the purpose of advertising or promotion. It can be more or less intrusive and the reaction of viewers usually depends on how welcome or entertaining the message is. An interstitial is usually designed to move automatically to the page the user requested after allowing enough time for the message to register or the ad(s) to be read.
(It further specifically identifies the "splash page" that automatically proceeds to the real site as a particular subset of interstitial advertising.)
(It is also defined on wiktionary, if you find that to be a more authoritative source....)
Best Answer
Those are commonly known as pills, or bobbles in the UK, though other terms may be in use depending on location. From Wikipedia:
As the Wikipedia article mentions, pill is also the verb form for this, and the form pilling is sometimes used for multiple pills together, as in: