stint

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To stop (an action); cease, desist.

   “We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt”

2. fiil To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
3. fiil To be sparing or mean.

   “The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.”

4. fiil To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

   “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. fiil 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. fiil To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

   “The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.”

7. isim A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

   “He had a stint in jail.”

8. isim Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

   “God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.”

9. isim 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.”

10. isim 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.”

11. isim Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
12. isim Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).