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English

Etymology

From obsolete hent, from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *khantijanan.

Pronunciation

Noun

hint (plural hints)

  1. A clue.
    I needed a hint to complete the crossword.
  2. A small, barely detectable amount of.
    This entry requires a hint of irony.
  3. Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.
    This font does not scale well; at small point sizes it has no hinting at all, and the hints that it has for the 10- and 12-point letter 'g' still need work.

Verb

to hint (third-person singular simple present hints, present participle hinting, simple past and past participle hinted)

  1. To deliberately imply, indirectly suggest, or provide a clue.
    She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
  2. To develop and add hints to a font.
    The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens.

Translations

express suggestively
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 暗示 cmn(cmn) (ànshì), 暗指 cmn(cmn) (ànzhǐ)
  • Finnish: vihjata fi(fi), vihjailla fi(fi)
  • French: faire allusion fr(fr)
  • Japanese: ほのめかす ja(ja) (honomekasu)
  • Russian: намекать ru(ru) (namekát') (impf.), намекнуть ru(ru) (nameknút') (pf.)
  • Spanish: dar un indicio es(es)
develop and add hints to a font

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From English

Noun

hint f. and m. (plural hints, diminutive hintje, diminutive plural hintjes)

  1. hint

Verb

hint

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of hinten.
  2. imperative of hinten.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Verb

hint

  1. to scatter, sprinkle
    A cukrász porcukrot hint a süteményre. - The confectioner sprinkles powedered sugar on the cookie.

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