scant
To limit in amount or shareTo limit in amount or share; to stint.
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» Your message was scant on details.
Ваше сообщение было скудно на детали. — marafon
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2 senses(transitive)To limit in amount or share; to stint.
to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
limit in quality or quantity
(intransitive)To fail, or become less; to scantle.
The wind scants.
Examples
7 sentencesYour message was scant on details.
ruВаше сообщение было скудно на детали. — marafon
The volunteer firefighters fought the blaze bravely, with scant regard for their own safety.
They are scant of money.
Make a thick cream sauce with one heaping tablespoonful each of butter and flour, and 1 scant cup of milk.
Unfortunately, scant attention is being paid by the outside world to the appalling predicament of the civilians trapped in these areas.
Origin
Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammrAdjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
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Forms
scants, scanting, scanted, scantedSynonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.