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Scant vs Slim - What's the difference?

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Scant is a related term of slim.


As nouns the difference between scant and slim

is that scant is (masonry) a block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level while slim is slime, mucus.

As an adjective scant

is very little, very few.

As a verb scant

is to limit in amount or share; to stint.

As an adverb scant

is with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

scant

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Very little, very few.
    • "After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John."
  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
    • a scant''' allowance of provisions or water; a '''scant pattern of cloth for a garment
  • * Ridley
    • His sermon was scant , in all, a quarter of an hour.
  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.

    Synonyms

    * few, little, slight * (l)

    Antonyms

    * ample, plenty

    Derived terms

    * scanty

    Related terms

    * scantily

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To limit in amount or share; to stint.
    • to scant''' someone in provisions; to '''scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
  • * Shakespeare
    • Scant not my cups.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted
  • * Dryden
    • I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle.
    • The wind scants .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
  • (masonry) A sheet of stone.
  • (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "scant")

    Adverb

    (-)
  • With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
  • * Fuller
    • So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.
    (Francis Bacon)

    Anagrams

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    slim

    English

    Adjective

    (slimmer)
  • Slender, thin.
  • # (of a person or a person's build) Slender in an attractive way.
  • Movie stars are usually slim , attractive, and young.
  • # (by extension, of clothing) Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
  • # (of an object) Long and narrow.
  • # (of a workforce) Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
  • (of something abstract like a chance or margin) Very small, tiny.
    • I'm afraid your chances are quite slim .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Man City 4 - 3 Wolves , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip. }}
  • (South Africa) Sly, crafty.

    • Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
    • I only smoke slims .
  • (East Africa) AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Charled F. Gilks, editors=David A. Warrell et al., chapter=HIV in the Developing World, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, edition=4th ed., volume=Volume 1 citation
    • , passage=As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.}}
  • (slang, uncountable) Cocaine.

    • Alternative forms

    * (AIDS) Slim

    Verb

  • To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

    • Anagrams

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