scant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.

   “a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment”

2. sıfat Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

   “Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.”

3. sıfat Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.

   “a scant cup of sugar”

4. fiil To limit in amount or share; to stint.

   “to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries”

5. fiil To fail, or become less; to scantle.

   “The wind scants.”

6. belirteç Very little, very few.

   “After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.”

7. isim A small piece or quantity.

   “A blonde appeared from the officers' room, wearing a scant of material that passed for issued undergarments.”

8. isim Scarcity; lack.

   “I was greatly surprised, however, in this very fertile and abundant country, to find so great a scant of provisions in the inns.”

9. isim A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
10. isim A sheet of stone.
11. isim A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
12. zarf With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

    “So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.”