stint

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
    — He had a stint in jail.
  2. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
  3. Misspelling of stent (“medical device”). alt-of,misspelling
  4. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
    — God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
  5. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
    — 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.
  6. A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To stop (an action); cease, desist. archaic,intransitive
    — We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt
    We deamons have pain that shall never cease
  2. To stop speaking or talking (of a subject). intransitive,obsolete
  3. To be sparing or mean. intransitive
    — The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
  4. To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance. transitive
    — 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
  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.
    — The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

词形变化

stints present,singular,third-person stinting participle,present stinted participle,past stinted past stints plural stints plural

词汇关系

衍生词
stinter unstinting stintless stinty

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Origin unknown.
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