Scant vs Smudge - What's the difference?
scant | smudge |
Very little, very few.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
* Ridley
Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
* Shakespeare
To limit in amount or share; to stint.
* Shakespeare
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
To fail, or become less; to scantle.
(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.
With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
* Fuller
A blemish; a smear.
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
(US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
To obscure by blurring; to smear.
To soil or smear with dirt.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
To stifle or smother with smoke.
(North American Indigenous) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual.
As verbs the difference between scant and smudge
is that scant is to limit in amount or share; to stint while smudge is to obscure by blurring; to smear.As nouns the difference between scant and smudge
is that scant is (masonry) a block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level while smudge is a blemish; a smear.As an adjective scant
is very little, very few.As an adverb scant
is with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.scant
English
Adjective
(er)- "After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John."
- a scant''' allowance of provisions or water; a '''scant pattern of cloth for a garment
- His sermon was scant , in all, a quarter of an hour.
- Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
Synonyms
* few, little, slight * (l)Antonyms
* ample, plentyDerived terms
* scantyVerb
(en verb)- to scant''' someone in provisions; to '''scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
- Scant not my cups.
- where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted
- I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
- The wind scants .
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* (English Citations of "scant")Adverb
(-)- So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.
- (Francis Bacon)
Anagrams
* *smudge
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- There was a smudge on the paper.
- (Grose)
- (Bartlett)