different between scant vs suant

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

From Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?em- (“mutilated, hornless”).

Adjective

scant (comparative scanter, superlative scantest)

1. Very little, very few.
2. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager; not enough.
   • 1824, John Watkins, Life of Hugh Latimer

     His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour.

3. Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

Synonyms

• (very little, few): few, little, slight
• (rare, scarce): geason; see also Thesaurus:rare

Antonyms

• (very little, few): ample, plenty

Derived terms

• scanty

Related terms

• scantily

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English scanten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

scant (third-person singular simple present scants, present participle scanting, simple past and past participle scanted)

1. (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building

     where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building

     I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.

2. (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.

Etymology 3

From Middle English scant, from the adjective (see above).

Noun

scant (plural scants)

1. (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
2. (masonry) A sheet of stone.
3. (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:scant.

Etymology 4

From Middle English scant, from the adjective (see above).

Adverb

scant (not comparable)

1. With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

   • So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.

   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Colours of Good and Evil

     the Epicure , that will scant endure the Stoic to be in sight of him

Noun

scant

1. Scarcity; lack.

Anagrams

• can'st, canst, cants, casn't

English

Etymology

From Middle English suant (“following”), from Anglo-Norman suant, from Old French suiant, sivant, present participle of sivre (“to follow”), from Latin sequor

Adjective

suant (comparative more suant, superlative most suant)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, rare) Smooth, or proceeding smoothly.

Derived terms

• suantly

See also

• pursuant

Adverb

suant (comparative more suant, superlative most suant)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, rare) Smoothly; without difficulty.

Synonyms

• smoothly, well, suantly

Related terms

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

• Satun, astun, aunts, tansu, tsuna, tuans, tunas

Catalan

Verb

suant

1. present participle of suar

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin s?nctus.

Adjective

suant

1. holy

Noun

suant m

1. saint

French

Verb

suant

1. present participle of suer

Adjective

suant (feminine singular suante, masculine plural suants, feminine plural suantes)

1. sweaty or sweating

Anagrams

• usant

Latin

Verb

suant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of su?

Old French

Verb

suant

1. present participle of suire