different between assignment vs stint

English

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.

Pronunciation

Noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

   This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

   We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

3. An assigned task.

   The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

4. A position to which someone is assigned.

   Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

5. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

   Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

6. (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

   The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

7. (law) A document that effects this transfer.

   Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

8. (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Hyponyms

• (programming): augmented assignment

Translations

References

• assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in ?stintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijan? and Proto-Germanic *stintan? (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

Verb

stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?

     We maun have pain that never shall stint.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:

     Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf

3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

   Synonym: skimp

4. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
   • 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies

     I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produ?tion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants

   • 1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

     She stints them in their meals.

5. 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.
6. (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
   • 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field

     The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.

Translations

Noun

stint (plural stints)

1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.

   • God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.

3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
   • 1779, William Cowper, Retirement

     His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

stint (plural stints)

1. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

stint (plural stints)

1. Misspelling of stent (medical device).

Anagrams

• 'tisn't, it'sn't, tints

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• stunt
• stänt
• stejnt
• stönt
• stant

Etymology

Related to stött (“short,”) stynt (“to shorten.”)

Noun

stint f (definite & vocative stinta, vocative plural stinte)

1. A girl, i.e. an unmarried woman.

Declension

Synonyms

• gänt
• täus

Derived terms

• gamstint
• gjetarstint