(superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.
(superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
(v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
(v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
(v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
(adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
(n.) Scantness; scarcity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(2) A few days on, we still don't know much , and the evidence against Lewthwaite is scant and contradictory.
(3) Despite scant histopathologic changes, motoneuron action potential discharge at this time was significantly altered in latency to onset of spike and rate of rise.
(4) Deep veins in the leg have little sympathetic innervation and scant vascular smooth muscle, so their compliance may be determined primarily by the surrounding skeletal muscle.
(5) Guidelines to show whether a patient hospitalized because of a urinary tract infection (UTI) has a severe infection, and whether he or she is at high risk for harboring a multiresistant pathogen, are scant.
(6) Assay sensitivity is greatly enhanced by pre-amplification of the target nucleic acid segment, enabling extremely scant tissue samples to be analysed and low grade infections to be detected.
(7) A review of the scant literature available on this condition reflect how uncommon it is, particularly in fertile subjects.
(8) There is, however, scant comparative information about the use of bloodspot eluates for detection of malarial IgG antibodies simultaneously by IFAT and enzyme immunoassay (ELISA).
(9) The rule of law collapses into expediency unless judges are independent and self-confident, and the evidence of such judges in Putin's Russia are scant indeed.
(10) So perhaps the news that most cancers are the product of bad luck – rather than, say, our diet or lifestyles – is scant reassurance.
(11) Using the scant evidence available in the literature, this study conducts a sensitivity analysis to calculate the unrecognized costs of antibiotic use annually in the United States under various possible circumstances.
(12) Lipid droplets and elements of smooth endoplasmic reticulum are scant.
(13) Third, there were cells whose surfaces exhibited dense populations of cilia and scant numbers of microvilli.
(14) The concept of insight into psychosis has received scant attention in the psychiatric literature.
(15) The first but very scant cardiomotor terminals appear in this period.
(16) In a brief review of the psychiatric literature on the psychological development of the child it is noted that only scant attention has been given to the influences of man's inborn aggressive drives in determining "how we get to be the way we are."
(17) Three types of seminoma cells could be distinguished on the basis of the relation between glycogen accumulation and cytoplasmic organelles: 1. tumor cells with plentiful glycogen and scant organelles, 2. tumor cells packed with organelles including RER, mitochondria and Golgi-apparatus but with finely dispersed glycogen, 3. tumor cells with numerous free ribosomes but few organelles and little glycogen.
(18) Nushra Mansuri, a professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers : "Was sad that there was scant focus on putting forward proposals to improve the situation for children in care across the board – we are in danger of promoting a two tier system."
(19) Intensity patterns were suggestive of hemorrhage, but neither acute nor chronic hemorrhage was identified on routine H and E stains, while iron stain revealed scant hemorrhage in only two of the eight patients in whom these stains were used.
(20) Wherever I went, I got nothing.” ‘Everything I have is inside this room’ Suleymanova’s family live in one dim, narrow, room scant with furniture.
Sparse
Definition:
(superl.) Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.
(superl.) Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
(v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) Fifteen days after axotomy of the olfactory nerves, two stained patterns which were numerously or sparsely labelled regions were observed.
(3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
(4) Sparse cell plating densities were used to minimize cell-cell contact formation and all studies were carried out in chemically defined medium that contained a saturating amount of soluble growth factors.
(5) With this modification one obtains, for sparsely ionizing radiation, a quality factor which is proportional to the dose average of lineal energy, y.
(6) Long term data on thiazide monotherapy are sparse but suggest a persistence of the lipid effect for as long as 6 years of treatment.
(7) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
(8) We have investigated alternative ways of showing variations in child health by using different aggregations of Enumeration Districts (ED) in a small, sparsely populated rural area.
(9) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
(10) Fewer, but still ample numbers, of SP-reactive axons are present also in the ventral tegmental and retrorubral areas of the midbrain tegmentum and in the ventral pallidum of the basal forebrain, but only sparse ME-reactive axons are present in these areas.
(11) Histologically, vascular lesions such as vacuolization, degeneration and desquamation of the endothelium and hyalinization and necrosis of the muscular coat predominated, whereas reparatory reactions were relatively sparse.
(12) Two principal classes of striatum long axonal neurons (sparsely ramified reticular cells and densely ramified dendritic cells) were analyzed quantitatively in four animal species: hedgehog, rabbit, dog and monkey.
(13) Instead the government insists that the sparse legislative agenda reflected a streamlining of government priorities to help it better cope with the downturn.
(14) The situation of high cell density could be mimicked by the addition of glutaraldehyde-fixed cells to sparsely seeded proliferating cells.
(15) Delta opioid labeling was sparse throughout most of the hypothalamus; however, moderate binding densities were detected in the suprachiasmatic and ventromedial nucleus.
(16) Except for sparse labeling in lamina I in some of the cases and some minor differences rostrocaudally, the spinal distribution of labeling was similar to that from the other nerves investigated.
(17) This hypothesis is supported by the observation that the single cell type which continues to express the vimentin-IFAPa-400 combination in the mature heart is the Purkinje fibres, which are also subjected to high mechanical tensions but in which myofibrils are generally sparse compared to working myocytes.
(18) Collateral coronary blood flow was fairly sparse in most cases and in 4 left ventricular dysfunction of varying degree was present.
(19) The technique of long-term, open catheterization of the spinal subarachnoid space for infusion of analgesics in patients with refractory cancer pain is sparsely reported in the literature.
(20) A sparse adrenergic innervation of the detrusor muscle was found.