Hint
WordNet
noun
(1) An indication of potential opportunity
"He got a tip on the stock market"
"A good lead for a job"
(2) A slight indication
(3) An indirect suggestion
"Not a breath of scandal ever touched her"
(4) A just detectable amount
"He speaks French with a trace of an accent"
(5) A slight but appreciable addition
"This dish could use a touch of garlic"
verb
(6) Drop a hint; intimate by a hint
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From obsolete hent, from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *khantijanan.
Noun
- A clue.
- I needed a hint to complete the crossword.
- A small, barely detectable amount of.
- This entry requires a hint of irony.
- 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 deliberately imply, indirectly suggest, or provide a clue.
- She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
- 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.
Verb
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