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sprint
English
Alternative forms
- sprunt (dialectal)
Etymology
Alteration of earlier sprent (“to leap; bound; dart”), from Middle English sprenten, from Old English *sprentan, from Proto-Germanic *sprantijan?, causative of Proto-Germanic *sprintan? (“to jump up; bounce”), from Proto-Indo-European *sprend-, *sprend?- (“to flinch; jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to twitch; fidget; flinch; jump; be quick”). Cognate with Middle High German sprenzen (“to sprinkle; splash”), Swedish spritta (“to startle”), Icelandic spretta (“to spring forth; emerge; arise; develop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint (plural sprints)
- A short race at top speed.
- A burst of speed or activity.
- (software engineering) In Agile software development, a period of development of a fixed time that is preceded and followed by meetings.
Descendants
Translations
Verb
sprint (third-person singular simple present sprints, present participle sprinting, simple past sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprant, past participle sprinted or (nonstandard, humorous) sprunt)
- (transitive, intransitive) To run, cycle, etc. at top speed for a short period.
Translations
Anagrams
- prints
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m
- sprint
Related terms
- sprintovat
- sprinter m
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spr?nt/
- Hyphenation: sprint
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints or sprinten, diminutive sprintje n)
- sprint
Derived terms
- eindsprint
- massasprint
- sprinten
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?int/
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- sprint, short top-speed race.
Further reading
- “sprint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
sprint m (invariable)
- sprint (short, fast race)
- vivacity, brio
sprint f (invariable)
- A motor car having strong acceleration
Romanian
Etymology
From French sprint.
Noun
sprint n (plural sprinturi)
- sprint
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sprint.
Noun
spr?nt m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- sprint
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?p?int/, [es?p??n?t?]
Noun
sprint m (plural sprints)
- Alternative spelling of esprint
Further reading
- “sprint” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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scamper
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?skæmp?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?skæmp?/
- Rhymes: -æmp?(r)
Etymology 1
First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Italian scampare (“to run away”).
Noun
scamper (plural scampers)
- A quick, light run.
Verb
scamper (third-person singular simple present scampers, present participle scampering, simple past and past participle scampered)
- (intransitive) To run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful or undignified manner.
- The dog scampered after the squirrel.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.
Synonyms
- scurry
- See also Thesaurus:walk
Translations
Etymology 2
scamp +? -er
Noun
scamper (plural scampers)
- One who skimps or does slipshod work.
- Synonym: skimper
Anagrams
- Campers, campers
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