| 单词 | scant |
| 释义 | scant I. chiefly dialect II. 1. a. dialect b. dialect < from this time be something scanter of your maiden presence — Shakespeare > 2. a. < likely to pay scant attention to proportion or design — Ben Riker > < desiccated stalks offer scant browsing to cattle — New York Times Magazine > specifically < had seen him, three scant months ago — Donn Byrne > < a scant chance of one man in ten surviving the torpedoing — English Digest > < many insulating boards are cut scant in width and length — P.D.Close > b. < amaryllis is tall-stemmed, and has scant foliage — G.M.Fosler > < a truly scant black lace underskirt — Lois Long > 3. a. < he's fat, and scant of breath — Shakespeare > b. < this small book … is a good bit too scant in documentation — New Yorker > 4. of a wind Synonyms: see meager III. dialect IV. 1. < shall not allow myself to be circumscribed and scanted of elbowroom — J.R.Lowell > < scanted in my allowance — Clara Reeve > 2. < has not hesitated to expand rather than scant the meaning of the original — Saturday Review (London) > 3. < to scant one's service was the cardinal sin — V.L.Parrington > 4. < vitally interdependent aims, and neither can be scanted without the other suffering — Fredson Bowers > < a subject scanted in too many grammars — A.F.Hubbell > |
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