scant vs slim

scant

adj
  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. 

  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary. 

noun
  • A sheet of stone. 

  • Scarcity; lack. 

  • A small piece or quantity. 

  • A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. 

  • A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. 

det
  • Very little, very few. 

verb
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle. 

  • To limit in amount or share; to stint. 

slim

adj
  • Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy. 

  • Designed to make the wearer appear slim. 

  • Slender in an attractive way. 

  • Long and narrow. 

  • Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient. 

  • Very small, tiny. 

verb
  • To make slimmer; to reduce in size. 

  • To lose weight in order to achieve slimness. 

noun
  • A potato farl. 

  • A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes. 

  • AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. 

  • Cocaine. 

How often have the words scant and slim occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )