different between hint vs hinting

English

Etymology

From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-Germanic *hantijan?. More at hent. Related to hunt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

hint (plural hints)

1. A clue.

2. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

3. A small, barely detectable amount of.
4. (computing) 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; an instance of hinting.

5. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     I, not remembering how I cried out then, / Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint / That wrings mine eyes to't.

Synonyms

• (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.

Descendants

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.

   She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
2. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.

   to hint a suspicion

   • We shall not describe this tragical scene too fully; but we thought ourselves obliged, by that historic integrity which we profess, shortly to hint a matter which we would otherwise have been glad to have spared.

3. (transitive) 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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Translations

Anagrams

• Nith, thin, thin'

Danish

Etymology 1

From English hint

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hen?d?]

Noun

hint n (singular definite hintet, plural indefinite hint or hints)

1. hint, clue

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hi?nd?], [hind?]

Pronoun

hint

1. neuter singular of hin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowing from English hint.

Pronunciation

Noun

hint f or m (plural hints, diminutive hintje n)

1. hint

Synonyms

• aanwijzing

See also

• tip

Verb

hint

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From an unattested stem of unknown origin + -t (causative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hint]
• Hyphenation: hint
• Rhymes: -int

Verb

hint

1. (transitive) to scatter, sprinkle (to cause a substance to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance))

   Synonyms: szór, hullat

Conjugation

Derived terms

• hintés

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• hint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English hint.

Noun

hint n (definite singular hintet, indefinite plural hint, definite plural hinta or hintene)

1. a hint
   • 2014, "Grepet av deg" by Sylvia Day, Bastion Forlag ?ISBN [3]

References

• “hint” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “hint” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English hint.

Noun

hint n (definite singular hintet, indefinite plural hint, definite plural hinta)

1. a hint

References

• “hint” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian.

Verb

hint

1. hunt

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?nt??/
• Rhymes: -?nt??

Noun

hinting (countable and uncountable, plural hintings)

1. The act of giving a hint or suggestion.
   • 2009, Sarah Zettel, In Camelot's Shadow

     Risa herself was questioned, as she expected, but the ladies took their cue from Marie and appeared content with her somewhat short answers, even when she only turned her gaze downward and blushed at the hintings at her betrothal.

2. (typography) The process of adding hints to a computer-based font in order to align the glyphs to a rasterized grid at specific sizes in a visually appealing manner.

See also

• antialiasing

Verb

hinting

1. present participle of hint

Anagrams

• nithing