scant

adjective · verb · determiner · noun · adverbA2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

scanter

Superlative

scantest

1.
Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
Đồng nghĩa: sparse, spare
2.
Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
3.
(cooking, of a measurement) Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.
a scant cup of sugar

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

scants

V_ing/Gerund

scanting

V_ed/pp

scanted

1.
(transitive)To limit in amount or share; to stint.
to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
2.
(intransitive)To fail, or become less; to scantle.
The wind scants.

determiner

1.
Very little, very few.
After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.
(as pronoun) The failure of this project has scant to do with me.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

scants

1.
A small piece or quantity.
2.
(uncommon)Scarcity; lack.
Even if labour were diverted to a great extent from our grand staple, the cotton manufacture, we are not prepared to admit that the country would be worse off. The worst that could happen in such a case would be, that for a few years, during the inordinate progress of railways, our population would run short of shirts and shifts. If the woollen manufacture be the theme, there would be a scant of coats and petticoats; or if the earthenware manufacture, there must be fewer teapots and pipkins.
3.
(masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
4.
(masonry) A sheet of stone.
5.
(wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

Trạng từ

adverb

1.
(dated, not comparable, uncommon)(uncommon or dated) With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

sparse spare geason few little slight

Trái nghĩa

ample plentyplenty (of)ample, plenty (of)

Cùng gốc / liên quan

scantly scantness scanty scantily

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Nguồn gốc từ

Adjective 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.