词汇 | scant |
释义 | scant adjective[ before noun ] uk /skænt/ us /skænt/ very little and not enough: 少量的;不足的;贫乏的 He pays scant attention to the needs of his children.他很少关注自己孩子的需求。 scant regard for the truth不顾事实 almost: 接近,几乎 Add a scant half litre (= almost half a litre) of milk to the mixture and stir well.把接近半升的牛奶加入到混合物中,并搅拌均匀。 Scarce, inadequate and not enough be at a premiumidiom be thin on the groundidiom chronic shortage dearth dearth of something gold dust insufficiently lack lacking like gold dustidiom long on something and short on somethingidiom lousy scarcity scrubby shortage shortfall shortness shy skinny thin You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Almost scant | American Dictionaryscant adjective[ not gradable ] us/skænt/ very little or not much: I paid scant attention to the movie’s plot. Scant can also mean not quite a full measure of something: Pour the batter by scant 1/4 cups onto the hot griddle. Examples of scantscant The legal position may be perfectly clear but it may also be forgotten, scanted, overlooked or under-emphasised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ways in which criteria have been selected and operationalised has been subjected to only scant discussion. There is scant evidence for this pheno menon, however. However, scant attention has been given to the idea that poor communication may also have an economic impact worthy of attention. In the absence of historical documents, one can first look at the scant available ethnohistorical data. Moreover, this possible situation might be reinforced by the scant view toward the future with respect to the lack of applicability analyses in most cases. Relevant practice pattern studies are scant and will be needed to confirm the validity of this model. Yiddish "grammar," as we shall soon see, must by its very nature be scant and without many rules. Here, the need to consolidate constituencies has left factions with scant room for manoeuvre. Such self-funding or privately paying residents have received scant research attention compared with those who are publicly funded. We also present the scant empirical evidence on cross-linguistic syntactic priming and underline the need for further research. Evidence from excavation is scant in this wide-ranging work, which might more accurately be described as grounded in materiality rather than archaeology. There is little mention of the significance of charcoal, and fire receives scant attention. Evidence to support such an inference is still scant. While these questions are beginning to be addressed, research is quite scant. See all examples of scant These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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