stintとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 stinten, from 古期英語 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”).

動詞

stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stop

   • 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, line 161:

     We mon haue payne that neuer shall stynt

     We deamons have pain that shall never cease

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife […]

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     And stint thou too, I pray thee.

   • 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     The damsel stinted in her song.

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

   Synonym: skimp

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

4. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
   • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies:

     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

   • 1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life:

     She stints them in their meals.

   • 1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 12:

     Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled. Worse, it stints the film's analysis, and by not being totally honest, causes and plays upon some dangerous misunderstanding.

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. (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
   • 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field:

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

派生語

• unstinting

名詞

stint (plural stints)

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

   He had a stint in jail.

   • 2020 May 20, “Network News: A legacy of greater diversity in transport”, in Rail, page 13:

     Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.

2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

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

3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
   • 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 288:

     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.

4. (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
   • 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

語源 2

Origin unknown.

名詞

stint (plural stints)

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

派生語

語源 3

名詞

stint

1. Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).

アナグラム

• 'tisn't, it'sn't, tints