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stint

1 [stint]

–verb (used without object)

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.

–verb (used with object)

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.

–noun

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. stunt ¹

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Language Translation for : stint

Spanish:

fijamente,

German:

anstarren,

Japanese:

じっと

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stint

2 [stint]

–noun

any of various small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, as the least sandpiper.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME stynte < ?

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stint¹   (stĭnt) Pronunciation Key
v.   stint·ed, stint·ing, stints

v.   tr.

To restrict or limit, as in amount or number; be sparing with.
Archaic To cause to stop.

v. intr.

To subsist on a meager allowance; be frugal.
Archaic To stop or desist.

A length of time spent in a particular way: a two-year stint in the military.
A fixed amount or share of work allotted. See Synonyms at task.
A limitation or restriction: working without stint.

[Middle English stinten, to cease, from Old English styntan, to blunt.]
stint'er n., stint'ing·ly adv.

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stint² (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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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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Main Entry: stint
variant of STENT

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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.