Stint vs False - What's the difference?
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A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
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limit; bound; restraint; extent
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Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
* Cowper
(archaic) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
* Late 14th century , :
To be sparing or mean.
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
* Woodward
* Law
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
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris . Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun stint
is a period of time spent doing or being something a spell or stint can be any of several very small wading birds in the genus calidris types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling or stint can be (medical device).As a verb stint
is (archaic|intransitive) to stop (an action); cease, desist.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.stint
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- He had a stint in jail.
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- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
Verb
(en verb)- O do thy cruell wrath and spightfull wrong / At length allay, and stint thy stormy strife
- And stint thou too, I pray thee.
- The damsel stinted in her song.
- Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
- The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
- I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
- She stints them in their meals.
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Anagrams
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English
Adjective
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