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SCANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Example:
regularly gives short weight
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
deficient; insufficient (of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement)
Derivation:
scantness (the quality of being meager)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they scant ... he / she / it scants
Past simple: scanted
Past participle: scanted
-ing form: scanting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Example:
stint with the allowance
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "scant" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Limit in quality or quantity
Synonyms:
scant; skimp
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "scant" is one way to...):
bound; confine; limit; restrict; throttle; trammel (place limits on (extent or amount or access))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
Synonyms:
scant; skimp
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "scant" is one way to...):
work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of immature spindle and polygonal cells within a scant myxoid stroma.
(Fetal Rhabdomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An unusual variant of acinar prostate adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of neoplastic small atrophic glands that contain malignant cells with scant cytoplasm.
(Acinar Prostate Adenocarcinoma, Atrophic Variant, NCI Thesaurus)
Despite decades of effort there have been, until now, only scant insights into its biological mechanisms.
(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A squamous cell carcinoma characterized by the presence of cells with hyperchromatic nuclei, scant amount of cytoplasm, and peripheral nuclear palisading.
(Basaloid Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Groups of uniform small cells with scant cytoplasm and round to oval nuclei with dense speckled chromatin form clusters thickening bronchiolar wall and/or protruding into the lumen.
(Neuroendocrine Hyperplasia of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
I longed to show them a tearing American gallop, for they trotted solemnly up and down, in their scant habits and high hats, looking like the women in a toy Noah's Ark.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Including solid and rosetting, with scant to moderate cytoplasm, nuclear features of NE carcinoma or with immunophenotypic documentation
(Invasive Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
Histologically, it is composed of closely packed cells with hyperchromatic nuclei and scant basophilic cytoplasm.
(Esophageal Basaloid Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
A morphologic variant of classic leiomyoma characterized by a dense cellular infiltrate composed of spindle or round cells with scant cytoplasm and a less obvious interlacing fascicle pattern.
(Cellular Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Even the stratosphere temperature of minus 333 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 203 degrees Celsius), observed by Cassini just south of the equator, was not frigid enough to allow the scant methane in this region of the atmosphere to condense into ice.
(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)
