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Sting vs Stint - What's the difference?

sting | stint |

In lang=en terms the difference between sting and stint

is that sting is to hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both while stint is to restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

As nouns the difference between sting and stint

is that sting is a bump left on the skin after having been stung while 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 verbs the difference between sting and stint

is that sting is to hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both while stint is (archaic|intransitive) to stop (an action); cease, desist.

sting

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
  • A bite by an insect.
  • A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
  • A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
  • (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
  • The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the lurking serpent's mortal sting
  • (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
  • A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
  • A brief sequence of music used in films, TV as a form of punctuation in a dramatic or comedic scene. In certain videogames stings are used to predict immediate future actions or to illustrate a current tension or mood.
  • A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
  • *
  • (figurative) The harmful or painful part of something.
  • * Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 56
    • The sting of death is sin.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 19 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=Leeds 1 - 3 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Just as it appeared Arsenal had taken the sting out of the tie, Johnson produced a moment of outrageous quality, thundering a bullet of a left foot shot out of the blue and into the top left-hand corner of Wojciech Szczesny's net with the Pole grasping at thin air. }}
  • A goad; incitement.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
    • Synonyms
    * (pointed portion of an insect) stinger

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stingen, from (etyl) . Compare Swedish and Icelandic stinga.

    Verb

  • To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
    • Right so came out an adder of a little heathbush, and it stung a knight in the foot.
    Still, it stung when a slightly older acquaintance asked me why I couldn't do any better.
  • (of an insect) To bite.
  • (sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain.
    • My hand stings after knocking on the door so long.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 11 , author=Jonathan Stevenson , title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Birmingham were clearly stung by some harsh words from manager Alex McLeish at the break and within 15 minutes of the restart the game had an entirely different complexion.}}
  • (figurative) To cause harm or pain to.
    • I thought I could park in front of the hotel, but they stung me for five pounds!
    Derived terms
    * sting like a bee * stingy

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints , getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.}}
  • 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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