| 单词 | stint |
| 释义 | stint stint1 —stintedly, adv. —stintedness, n. —stinter, n. —stintingly, adv. —stintless, adj. /stint/, v.i. 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. v.t. 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. n. 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. Obs. a pause; halt. [1150-1200; (v.) ME stinten, OE styntan to make blunt, dull; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.; c. ON stytta to shorten; cf. STUNT1] Syn. 3. confine, restrain. 7. restraint, constraint. 8. allotment, portion. stint2 /stint/, n. any of various small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, as the least sandpiper. [1425-75; late ME stynte < ?] |
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