Stint STINT, v.t. [Gr., narrow.] 1. To restrain within certain
limits; to bound; to confine; to limit; as, to stint the body in growth;
to stint the mind in knowledge; to stint a person in his meals.
Nature wisely stints our appetite. 2. To assign a certain task in
labor, which being performed, the person is excused from further labor
for the day, or for a certain time; a common popular use of the word
in America. STINT, n. A small bird, the Tringa cinctus. STINT, n. 1. Limit; bound; restraint. 2. Quantity
assigned; proportion allotted. The workmen have their stint. Our
stint of woe is common.
stint
n 1: an unbroken period of time during which you do something;
"there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the
federal penitentiary" [syn: stretch, stint]
2: smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper, stint,
Erolia minutilla]
3: an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a
lifeguard exhausted her"
v 1: subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn:
scrimp, stint, skimp]
2: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with
the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant]
stint I. verbEtymology: Middle English, from Old English styntan to blunt,
dull; akin to Old Norse stuttr scant Date: 13th century
intransitive verb1.archaicstop, desist2. to be sparing or
frugal <not stinting with their praise>
transitive verb1.archaic to put an end to
;stop2.a.archaic to limit within certain boundaries b. to
restrict with respect to a share or allowance <stinted
herself of luxuries>
• stinternounII. nounDate: 1593 1.a. a definite quantity of work assigned b. a period of
time spent at a particular activity <served a brief stint
as a waiter>
2.restraint, limitationSynonyms:seetaskIII. noun (pluralstints; alsostint)
Etymology: Middle English stynteDate: 15th century
any of several small sandpipers (genus Calidris)
stint v. & n. --v.tr. 1 supply (food or aid etc.) in a niggardly amount or grudgingly. 2 (often refl.) supply (a person etc.) in this way. --n. 1 a limitation of supply or effort
(without stint). 2 a fixed or allotted amount of work (do one's stint). 3 a small sandpiper, esp. a dunlin. Derivatives: stinter n. stintless adj. Etymology: OE styntan to
blunt, dull, f. Gmc, rel. to STUNT(1)
stint
(stints)
A stint is a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or
working in a particular place.
He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong.N-COUNT: with supp, oft adj N, N prep
stint
stɪnt v. & n. --v.tr. 1 supply (food or aid etc.) in a niggardly
amount or grudgingly. 2 (often refl.) supply (a person etc.) in this
way. --n. 1 a limitation of supply or effort (without stint). 2 a fixed
or allotted amount of work (do one's stint). 3 a small sandpiper, esp. a
dunlin. øøstinter n. stintless adj. [OE styntan to blunt, dull, f. Gmc,
rel. to STUNT(1)]
Sanderling \San"der*ling\, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because
it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the
seashore.] (Zo["o]l.)
A small gray and brown sandpiper ({Calidris arenaria}) very
common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called
also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
Stint \Stint\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the
sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little
stint of India ({Tringa minuta}), etc. Called also
pume.
(b) A phalarope.
Stint \Stint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stinted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stinting.] [OE. stinten, stenten, stunten, to cause to
cease, AS. styntan (in comp.) to blunt, dull, fr. stunt dull,
stupid; akin to Icel. stytta to shorten, stuttr short, dial,
Sw. stynta to shorten, stunt short. Cf. Stent, Stunt.]
1. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine;
to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of
the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the
production of weeds. --Woodward.
She stints them in their meals. --Law.
2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
3. To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person),
upon the performance of which one is excused from further
labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
while at work. --J. H. Walsh.
Stint \Stint\, v. i.
To stop; to cease. [Archaic]
They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer.
And stint thou too, I pray thee. --Shak.
The damsel stinted in her song. --Sir W.
Scott.
Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]
1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint
of his power. --South.
2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.
--Cowper.
stint
I. v. a.1. Limit, bound, restrain, confine.
2. Straiten, pinch, distress, begrudge, put on short allowance.
II. v. n.
Stop, cease, desist.
III. n.1. Limit, bound, restraint.
2. Quantity assigned, allotted portion.
stint
stɪnt n.
1 share, quota, allotment, bit, assignment, stretch, shift, term, time, job, chore,
task, routine, turn, tour, duty, responsibility, obligation, charge: She had done her stint of
washing-up and refused to do any more.
2 control, curb, limit, limitation, restriction, check, restraint, constraint, condition,
qualification, reservation: The committee is free to exercise without stint its power to raise
membership fees. --v.
3 control, curb, limit, restrict: Don't stint yourself, lunch is on the firm.
4 skimp, scrimp, be stingy or cheap or penurious or parsimonious or sparing or frugal,
hold back (on), withhold, economize, pinch (pennies), cut corners, Colloq Brit be mingy: They
certainly didn't stint on the food and drink at Andrea's party.
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