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stint
(mass) | stint
- obmedziť |
stint
(encz) | stint,omezit v: Zdeněk Brož |
stint
(encz) | stint,pracovní pobyt n: web |
stint
(encz) | stint,stáž Zdeněk Brož |
stint
(encz) | stint,škudlit v: Zdeněk Brož |
stint
(gcide) | Sanderling \San"der*ling\, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because
it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the
seashore.] (Zool.)
A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very
common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called
also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
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Stint
(gcide) | Stint \Stint\, v. i.
To stop; to cease. [Archaic]
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They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer.
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And stint thou too, I pray thee. --Shak.
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The damsel stinted in her song. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Stint
(gcide) | Stint \Stint\, n. (Zool.)
(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.
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Stint
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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She stints them in their meals. --Law.
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2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
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The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
while at work. --J. H. Walsh.
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Stint
(gcide) | Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]
1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
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God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint
of his power. --South.
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2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
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His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.
--Cowper.
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stint
(wn) | 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, stint]
2: smallest American sandpiper [syn: least sandpiper, stint,
Erolia minutilla]
3: an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a
lifeguard exhausted her"
v 1: subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp" [syn:
scrimp, stint, skimp]
2: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with
the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant] |
STINT
(bouvier) | STINT, Eng. law. The proportionable part of a man's cattle, which he may
keep upon the common.
2. To use a thing without stint, is to use it without limit.
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justintime
(mass) | just-in-time
- práve včas |
unstinted
(mass) | unstinted
- štedrý |
stinter
(encz) | stinter, n: |
stinting
(encz) | stinting, adj: |
unstinted
(encz) | unstinted,štědrý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unstinting
(encz) | unstinting, |
unstintingly
(encz) | unstintingly,štědře adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Stint
(gcide) | Sanderling \San"der*ling\, n. [Sand + -ling. So called because
it obtains its food by searching the moist sands of the
seashore.] (Zool.)
A small gray and brown sandpiper (Calidris arenaria) very
common on sandy beaches in America, Europe, and Asia. Called
also curwillet, sand lark, stint, and ruddy plover.
[1913 Webster]Stint \Stint\, v. i.
To stop; to cease. [Archaic]
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They can not stint till no thing be left. --Chaucer.
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And stint thou too, I pray thee. --Shak.
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The damsel stinted in her song. --Sir W.
Scott.
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[1913 Webster]Stint \Stint\, n. (Zool.)
(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\, 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.
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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.
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She stints them in their meals. --Law.
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2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
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The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
while at work. --J. H. Walsh.
[1913 Webster]Stint \Stint\, n. [Also written stent. See Stint, v. t.]
1. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
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God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint
of his power. --South.
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2. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
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His old stint -- three thousand pounds a year.
--Cowper.
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Stintance
(gcide) | Stintance \Stint"ance\, n.
Restraint; stoppage. [Obs.]
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Stinted
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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She stints them in their meals. --Law.
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2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
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The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
while at work. --J. H. Walsh.
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Stintedness
(gcide) | Stintedness \Stint"ed*ness\, n.
The state of being stinted.
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Stinter
(gcide) | Stinter \Stint"er\, n.
One who, or that which, stints.
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Stinting
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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She stints them in their meals. --Law.
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2. To put an end to; to stop. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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4. To serve successfully; to get with foal; -- said of mares.
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The majority of maiden mares will become stinted
while at work. --J. H. Walsh.
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Stintless
(gcide) | Stintless \Stint"less\, a.
Without stint or restraint.
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The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. --Marston.
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Unstinted
(gcide) | Unstinted \Unstinted\
See stinted. |
Unstinting
(gcide) | Unstinting \Unstinting\
See stinting. |
stinter
(wn) | stinter
n 1: an economizer who stints someone with something |
stinting
(wn) | stinting
adj 1: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical
shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing
father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat
and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty
because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is
used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal,
scotch, sparing, stinting] |
unstinted
(wn) | unstinted
adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand";
"the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother
a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal
praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted
devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn:
lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous,
unsparing, unstinted, unstinting] |
unstinting
(wn) | unstinting
adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand";
"the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent
gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother
a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal
praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted
devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn:
lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous,
unsparing, unstinted, unstinting] |
unstintingly
(wn) | unstintingly
adv 1: in an unstinting manner |
STINT
(bouvier) | STINT, Eng. law. The proportionable part of a man's cattle, which he may
keep upon the common.
2. To use a thing without stint, is to use it without limit.
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