stint

«stint» in Mova's school dictionary: a fixed period of work or time spent doing a job — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (stint, stints)

meaning for a pupil

1) A stint is a fixed period of work or time spent doing a job. tree →

2) (old use) A stint is a limit or holding back; «without stint» means freely and in plenty, with nothing held back. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales «without stint» means food and drink are given freely and in plenty

examples

• We ate without stint. tree →
• She did a stint as the cook. tree →
• He worked a long stint at the mill. tree →

note

nothing for maths: a stint names a period of work or a limit, not an operation or an amount to count

In the corpora

• Will thy riches avail, that are without stint, or all the forces of thy strength?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «stint» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.