stint
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Etymology: From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan, from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Inflected forms:
form: stints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stinted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stop (an action); cease, desist.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt
O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]
And stint thou too, I pray thee.
The damsel stinted in her song.
gloss: To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To be sparing or mean.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
gloss: To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produćtion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants
She stints them in their meals.
Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled. Worse, it stints the film's analysis, and by not being totally honest, causes and plays upon some dangerous misunderstanding.
gloss: To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
pos: verb
gloss: To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
pos: verb
examples: The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
gloss: A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
pos: noun
examples: He had a stint in jail.
Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
gloss: Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
pos: noun
examples: God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
gloss: Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
pos: noun
examples: Jack bovv'd and vvas oblig'd—confeſs'd 'tvvas ſtrange / That ſo retir'd he ſhould not vviſh a change, / But knevv no medium betvveen guzzling beer, / And his old stint—three thouſand pounds a year.
gloss: A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
pos: noun
examples: That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.
Derived words: stinter
unstinting
stintless
stinty
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