transcription, транскрипция: [ skænt ]
1.
You use scant to indicate that there is very little of something or not as much of something as there should be.
She began to berate the police for paying scant attention to the theft from her car.
ADJ : usu ADJ n
2.
If you describe an amount as scant , you are emphasizing that it is small.
This hole was a scant .23 inches in diameter...
= mere
ADJ : a ADJ amount [ emphasis ]