limit vs stint

limit

verb
  • To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. 

  • To have a limit in a particular set. 

adj
  • Being a fixed limit game. 

noun
  • A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go. 

  • The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely. 

  • A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic. 

  • Fixed limit. 

  • The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge. 

  • The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race. 

  • A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc. 

  • A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge). 

  • Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit. 

stint

verb
  • To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance. 

  • 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. 

  • To impregnate successfully; to get with foal. 

  • To be sparing or mean. 

noun
  • Limit; bound; restraint; extent. 

  • Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted. 

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

  • A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell. 

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