Spell vs. Stint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spell and Stint
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Spell
To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word).
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.
Spell
To constitute the letters of (a word)
These letters spell animal.
Stint
Supply a very ungenerous or inadequate amount of (something)
Stowage room hasn't been stinted
Spell
To add up to; signify
Their unwise investment could spell financial ruin.
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Stint
A person's fixed or allotted period of work
His varied career included a stint as a magician
Spell
To name or write in order the letters of a word or words
I've never been able to spell very well.
Stint
Limitation of supply or effort
A collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint
Spell
To put (someone) under a spell; bewitch.
Stint
A small short-legged sandpiper of northern Eurasia and Alaska, with a brownish back and white underparts.
Spell
To relieve (someone) from work temporarily by taking a turn.
Stint
To be frugal or economical in providing something; hold back
The host did not stint on the wine. He does not stint when providing advice.
Spell
To allow (someone) to rest a while.
Stint
(Archaic) To stop or desist.
Spell
To take turns working.
Stint
To restrict (someone) in what is provided or allowed
"found his living so expensive that he had to stint his family" (William Marvel).
Spell
(Australian) To rest for a time from an activity.
Stint
To restrict (something supplied); be sparing with.
Spell
A word or formula believed to have magic power.
Stint
(Archaic) To cause to stop.
Spell
A bewitched state or trance
The sorcerer put the prince under a spell.
Stint
A length of time spent in a particular way, especially doing a job or fulfilling a duty
A two-year stint in the military.
Spell
A compelling attraction; charm or fascination
The spell of the theater.
Stint
A limitation or restriction
Working without stint.
Spell
A short, indefinite period of time.
Stint
Any of several small sandpipers of the genus Calidris, primarily of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Spell
(Informal) A period of weather of a particular kind
A dry spell.
Stint
To stop (an action); cease, desist.
Spell
One's turn at work.
Stint
To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
Spell
A period of work; a shift.
Stint
(intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
The next party you throw, don't stint on the beer.
Spell
(Australian) A period of rest.
Stint
(transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
Spell
(Informal) A period of physical or mental disorder or distress
A dizzy spell.
Stint
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.
Spell
(Informal) A short distance.
Stint
(of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
Spell
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
He cast a spell to cure warts.
Stint
A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
He had a stint in jail.
Spell
A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
Under a spell
Stint
Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
Spell
(obsolete) Speech, discourse.
Stint
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Spell
A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
Stint
Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Spell
(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
Stint
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
Spell
(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
Stint
Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
Spell
A period of rest; time off.
Stint
Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
His old stint - three thousand pounds a year.
Spell
A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
Stint
To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
I shall not go about to extenuate the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds.
She stints them in their meals.
Spell
(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
Stint
To put an end to; to stop.
Spell
(dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
Stint
To assign a certain (i. e., limited) task to (a person), upon the performance of which one is excused from further labor for the day or for a certain time; to stent.
Spell
The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
Stint
To serve successfully; to get with foal; - said of mares.
The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
Spell
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
Stint
To stop; to cease.
They can not stint till no thing be left.
And stint thou too, I pray thee.
The damsel stinted in her song.
Spell
To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
Stint
An unbroken period of time during which you do something;
There were stretches of boredom
He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary
Spell
To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
Stint
Smallest American sandpiper
Spell
(intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.
Stint
An individuals prescribed share of work;
Her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her
Spell
(transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.
Stint
Subsist on a meager allowance;
Scratch and scrimp
Spell
To clarify; to explain in detail.
Please spell it out for me.
Stint
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities;
Sting with the allowance
Spell
(transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
This spells trouble.
Spell
To constitute; to measure.
Spell
(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
Spell
(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
Spell
(transitive) To work in place of (someone).
To spell the helmsman
Spell
(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
Spell
To rest from work for a time.
Spell
A spelk, or splinter.
Spell
The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
A spell at the wheel is called a trick.
Spell
The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
Nothing new has happened in this quarter, except the setting in of a severe spell of cold weather.
Spell
One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
Their toil is so extreme that they can not endure it above four hours in a day, but are succeeded by spells.
Spell
A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
Spell
A story; a tale.
Spell
A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
Start not; her actions shall be holy asYou hear my spell is lawful.
Spell
To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
Spell
To tell; to relate; to teach.
Might I that legend find,By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.
Spell
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.
Spell
To constitute; to measure.
The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect.
Spell
To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
The word "satire" ought to be spelled with i, and not with y.
Spell
To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; - usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
To spell out a God in the works of creation.
To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident.
Spell
To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell,And he a god, who could but read or spell.
Spell
To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
Where I may sit and rightly spellOf every star that heaven doth shew,And every herb that sips the dew.
Spell
A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
Spell
A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else);
It's my go
A spell of work
Spell
A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition;
He was here for a little while
I need to rest for a piece
A spell of good weather
A patch of bad weather
Spell
A verbal formula believed to have magical force;
He whispered a spell as he moved his hands
Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese
Spell
Recite the letters of or give the spelling of;
How do you spell this word?
Spell
Indicate or signify;
I'm afraid this spells trouble!
Spell
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);
He spelled the word wrong in this letter
Spell
Place under a spell
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