Stint vs Restrict - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between stint and restrict

is that stint is (archaic|intransitive) to stop (an action); cease, desist while restrict is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

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 an adjective restrict is

(obsolete) restricted.

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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restrict

English

Verb

(en verb)

To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

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(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.

If we restrict sine to $[-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2]$ , we can define its inverse.

Synonyms

* (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Restricted.

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