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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Stint (0.00884 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Stint.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: stint 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] 2: smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper, Erolia minutilla ] 3: an individuals prescribed share of work; “her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her” v 1: subsist on a meager allowance; “scratch and scrimp” [syn: scrimp, skimp] 2: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; “sting with the allowance” [syn: skimp, scant]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Stint Stint \Stint\, v. i. To stop; to cease. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] And stint thou too, I pray thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The damsel stinted in her song. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.] 1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent. [1913 Webster] God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. [1913 Webster] His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] She stints them in their meals. --Law. [1913 Webster] 2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares. [1913 Webster] The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. --J. H. Walsh. [1913 Webster]
English → English (WordNet) Definition: stint 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] 2: smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper, Erolia minutilla ] 3: an individuals prescribed share of work; “her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her” v 1: subsist on a meager allowance; “scratch and scrimp” [syn: scrimp, skimp] 2: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; “sting with the allowance” [syn: skimp, scant]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Stint Stint \Stint\, v. i. To stop; to cease. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] And stint thou too, I pray thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The damsel stinted in her song. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.] 1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent. [1913 Webster] God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. [1913 Webster] His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] She stints them in their meals. --Law. [1913 Webster] 2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares. [1913 Webster] The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work. --J. H. Walsh. [1913 Webster]
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