Shift vs Stint - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between shift and stint

is that shift is to hurry while stint is to restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

As verbs the difference between shift and stint

is that shift is to change, swap while stint is to stop (an action); cease, desist.

As nouns the difference between shift and stint

is that shift is a type of women's undergarment, a slip while stint is a period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.

shift

English

(wikipedia shift)

Verb

(en verb)

To change, swap.

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To move from one place to another; to redistribute.

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To change position.

(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.

*, II.ii.2:

'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].

* Shakespeare

As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.

To change gears (in a car).

(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.

(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.

(computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.

(computing) To remove the first value from an array.

To dispose of.

To hurry.

(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.

To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

* L'Estrange

Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.

To practice indirect or evasive methods.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift , than to resolve by their distinctions.

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip

Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.

No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.

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* 1919 ,

Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.

a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time

We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.

an act of shifting; a slight movement or change

* Sir H. Wotton

My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.

There was a shift in the political atmosphere.

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(US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle

Does it come with a stick-shift ?

If you press shift -P, the preview display will change.

(computing) a bit shift

(baseball) The infield shift.

Teams often use the shift against this lefty.

The act of sexual petting.

(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail

* 1596 , Shakespeare, History of King John

If I get down, and do not break my limbs,

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:

As good to die and go, as die and stay.

(archaic) a trick, an artifice

* 1593 , Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

And if the boy have not a woman's gift

To rain a shower of commanded tears,

An onion will do well for such a shift

* Macaulay

Reduced to pitiable shifts .

* Shakespeare

I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.

* Dryden

Little souls on little shifts rely.

In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.

(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.

Derived terms

* blueshift * day shift * graveyard shift * make shift * night shift * preshift * shift break * shiftwork, shift work * split shift * swing shift * stickshift * redshift * (French kissing) get the shift

stint

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.

He had a stint in jail.

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limit; bound; restraint; extent

* South

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

Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

* Cowper

His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.

Verb

(en verb)

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

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:

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

* Shakespeare

And stint thou too, I pray thee.

* Sir Walter Scott

The damsel stinted in her song.

(obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

* Late 14th century , :

Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf

To be sparing or mean.

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

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

* Woodward

I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.

* Law

She stints them in their meals.

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.

To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.

* J. H. Walsh

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

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

(en noun)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

(medical device).

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