stint

Meaning

Verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
4. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
5. 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.
6. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

Noun

1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
4. A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.

Noun

Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Noun

Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).

Synonyms

skimp

scant

task

limit

period

restriction

confine

limitation

reduce

grudge

restraint

least sandpiper

restrict

constrict

constraint

job

age

Erolia minutilla

stretch

abridge

scrimp

chore

season

sandpiper

cease

cramp

containment

bourne

crib

curbing

ambit

bourn

constrain

mete

confinement

bound

allowance

localise

conceive

border

labour

labor

clocking

hour

circumscription

localize

be exhausted

minimize

parry

halt

Translations

einschränken

beschränken

tâche

taak

limiter

beperken

économiser

knausern

τσιγκουνεύομαι

bécasseau

geizen

Pensum

limitare

épargner

limitar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɪnt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: stinten

Inherited from Old English: styntan

Cognate with Old Norse: *stynta

In summary

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”).