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Определение scantly в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
- Done in a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided
He scantly filled the bag, increasing his profits but getting dissatisified customers.
- {a} scarcely, hardly, nearly, penuriously
- Scarcely; hardly; barely
- barely, scarcely; scantily, in the manner of being in short supply
- In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously
- scant
- A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size
- scant
- A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level
- scant
- very little, very few
After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John..
- scant
- {v} to limit, straiten, retrain, confine
- scant
- {a} narrow, scanty
- scant
- {a} scarcely, hardly
- scant
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
- scant
- To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
- scant
- limit in quality or quantity
- scant
- {f} cut, reduce, lessen; belittle, slight, snub; shortchange, give less than the correct quantity
- scant
- Not quite up to full measure For example: a scant teaspoon of an ingredient would be less than a teaspoonful as opposed to a level teaspoon, rounded teaspoon or heaping teaspoon
- scant
- Scantness; scarcity
- scant
- Masonry: A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level
- scant
- A sheet of stone
- scant
- Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
- scant
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
- scant
- emphasis If you describe an amount as scant, you are emphasizing that it is small. This hole was a scant .23 inches in diameter = mere
- scant
- As in "scant teaspoon," not quite full
- scant
- To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail
- scant
- {s} lacking, having an inadequate supply; meager, barely sufficient, just enough; limited, deficient
- scant
- In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly
- scant
- very little
- scant
- To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants
- scant
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- scant
- You use scant to indicate that there is very little of something or not as much of something as there should be. She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car
- scant
- Timber: A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size
- scant
- Sparing; parsimonious; chary
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Этимология
[ 'skant ] (adjective.) 14th century. Middle English, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr short.Resimler
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