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[stint] Pronunciation Key
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[stint] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object)
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| 1. | to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money. |
| 2. | Archaic. to cease action; desist. |
| 3. | to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict. |
| 4. | Archaic. to bring to an end; check. |
| 5. | a period of time spent doing something: a two-year stint in the army. |
| 6. | an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one's daily stint. |
| 7. | limitation or restriction, esp. as to amount: to give without stint. |
| 8. | a limited, prescribed, or expected quantity, share, rate, etc.: to exceed one's stint. |
| 9. | Obsolete. a pause; halt. |
[Origin: 1150–1200; (v.) ME stinten, OE styntan to make blunt, dull; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.; c. ON stytta to shorten; cf. stunt1
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stint·ed·ly, adverb
stint·ed·ness, noun
stinter, noun
stint·ing·ly, adverb
stintless, adjective
—Synonyms 3. confine, restrain. 7. restraint, constraint. 8. allotment, portion.
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[stint] Pronunciation Key,
[stint] Pronunciation Key, –noun
| any of various small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, as the least sandpiper. |
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME stynte < ?
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| stint 1
(stĭnt) Pronunciation Key
v. stint·ed, stint·ing, stints v. tr.
v. intr.
n.
[Middle English stinten, to cease, from Old English styntan, to blunt.] stint'er n., stint'ing·ly adv. |
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| stint 2
(stĭnt) Pronunciation Key
n. Any of several small sandpipers of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions. [Middle English stint, from Old English.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
stint (v.)
stint (v.)
"to limit, restrain, to be sparing or frugal," O.E. styntan "to blunt, make dull," from P.Gmc. *stuntijanan (cf. O.N. stuttr "short, scant," M.H.G. stunz "blunt, short," Ger. stutzen "to cut short, curtail, stop, hesitate"), from PIE base *(s)teu- "to beat, strike, push, thrust" (see steep (adj.)). The noun is attested from c.1300.
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| stint | |
noun | |
| 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] |
| 2. | smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper] |
| 3. | an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her" |
verb | |
| 1. | subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn: scrimp] |
| 2. | supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" |
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Stunt\, n. [Cf. Stint a task.] A feat hard to perform; an act which is striking for the skill, strength, or the like, required to do it; a feat. [Colloq.] An extraordinary man does three or four different "stunts" with remarkable dexterity. --The Bookman. He does not try to do stunts; and, above all, he does not care to go in swimming. --L. Hutton.
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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.
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Stent\, v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente; obs. p. p. Stent.] [See Stint.] To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint. Then would he weep, he might not be stent. --Chaucer. Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement. --Spenser.
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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.
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