Stint
A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic “Calidris” assemblage – often separated in Erolia – which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.
Some of these birds are difficult to identify because of the similarity between species, and various breeding, non-breeding, juvenile, and moulting plumages. In addition, some plovers are also similarly patterned, especially in winter. With a few exceptions, stints usually have a fairly stereotypical color pattern, being brownish above and lighter – usually white – on much of the underside. They often have a lighter supercilium above brownish cheeks.
Stint (noun)
A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
“He had a stint in jail.”
Stint (noun)
limit; bound; restraint; extent
Stint (noun)
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Stint (noun)
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Stint (verb)
To stop (an action); cease, desist.
Stint (verb)
To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
Stint (verb)
To be sparing or mean.
“The next party you throw, don’t stint on the beer.”
Stint (verb)
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
Stint (verb)
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.
Stint (verb)
To mares.
Tint (noun)
A slight coloring.
Tint (noun)
A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
Tint (noun)
A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
“Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.”
Tint (noun)
A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
Tint (verb)
To shade, to color.
Stint (verb)
supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something)
“stowage room hasn’t been stinted”
Stint (verb)
restrict (someone) in the amount of something, especially money, given or permitted
“to avoid having to stint yourself, budget in advance”
Stint (verb)
be very economical or mean about spending or providing something
“he doesn’t stint on wining and dining”
Stint (noun)
a person’s fixed or allotted period of work
“his varied career included a stint as a magician”
Stint (noun)
limitation of supply or effort
“a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint”
Stint (noun)
a small short-legged sandpiper of northern Eurasia and Alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.