Stint vs Stent - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stint and stent

is that stint is a period of time spent doing or being something. A spell while stent is a slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

As verbs the difference between stint and stent

is that stint is to stop (an action); cease, desist while stent is to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

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).

Anagrams

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stent

English

(wikipedia stent)

Etymology 1

Unclear. Possibly named after dentist Charles Stent.

Noun

(en noun)

A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

* 2006 New York Times

Tiny metal sleeves placed in arteries to keep blood flowing, stents have become such a popular quick fix for clogged coronary vessels that Americans will receive more than 1.5 million of them this year.

Etymology 2

See stint.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.

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Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.

* Spenser

Yet n'ould she stent / Her bitter railing and foule revilement.

(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.

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