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hint
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)
- A clue.
- A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A small, barely detectable amount of.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
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)
- (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
- She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
- (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.
- (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)
- hint, clue
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hi?nd?], [hind?]
Pronoun
hint
- neuter singular of hin
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowing from English hint.
Pronunciation
Noun
hint f or m (plural hints, diminutive hintje n)
- hint
Synonyms
- aanwijzing
See also
- tip
Verb
hint
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of hinten
- 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
- (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)
- a hint
- 2014, "Grepet av deg" by Sylvia Day, Bastion Forlag ?ISBN [3]
- 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)
- a hint
References
- “hint” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian.
Verb
hint
- 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
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key
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?, IPA(key): /ki?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ki/
- IPA(key): [?k??i?]
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophones: cay, quay
Etymology 1
From Middle English keye, kaye, kei?e, from Old English c??, c??e, c?ga (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. Related to Old English c?ggian (“to lock, shut”). The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *k?gaz, *k?guz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *?og?-, *?eg?-, *?eg?n- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German k?k (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."
Noun
key (plural keys)
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books.
- who keeps the keys of all the creeds
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- (music)
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- (music)
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- 1881, R.L. Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- A girl, it is true, has always lived in a glass house among reproving relatives, whose word was law; she has been bred up to sacrifice her judgments and take the key submissively from dear papa; and it is wonderful how swiftly she can change her tune into the husband's.
- (figuratively) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- ?, William Cowper, Conversation
- You fall at once into a lower key.
- ?, William Cowper, Conversation
- (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- 1998, Mail Order Success Secrets
- Another popular way to key ads and mailings is to use a suite number, room number, department number, desk number, etc. as part of the ordering address. With a classified ad, using such a key may increase your ad cost.
- 1998, Mail Order Success Secrets
- (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- 2000, "Robert Erdec", Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si (on newsgroup alt.irc.mirc)
- if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.
- 2000, "Robert Erdec", Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si (on newsgroup alt.irc.mirc)
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- (masonry) A keystone.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
- 2004, Mark Schmidt, ?Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook (page 195)
- You can easily create this type of user interface by creating a bitmap with certain portions set to a predefined color you want to use as the transparency key.
- 2004, Mark Schmidt, ?Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook (page 195)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- clef
- scale
- key on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Key in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Adjective
key (comparative more key, superlative most key)
- Indispensable, supremely important.
- He is the key player on his soccer team.
- 2007, Mark H. Moss, Shopping as an Entertainment Experience (page 46)
- Lukas intimates that one of Disney's key attractions was "Main Street USA,” which "mimicked a downtown business district just as Southdale" had done.
- Important, salient.
- She makes several key points.
Translations
Verb
key (third-person singular simple present keys, present participle keying, simple past and past participle keyed)
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- 1996 January, Garden Dsign Ideas, second printing, Taunton Press, ?ISBN, page 25,
- So I worked on a tissue-paper copy of the perimeter plan, outlining groupings of plants of the same species and keying them with letters for the species.
- 2001, Bruce M. Metzger, The Bible in Translation, ?ISBN, page 87,
- The volume closes with thirty pages of "Notes, critical and explanatory," in which Thomson provides seventy-six longer or shorter notes keyed to specific sections of the synopsis.
- 2002, Karen Bromley, Stretching Students' Vocabulary, ?ISBN, page 12,
- Talk about similarities between the words and write them below to the left of the anchor, keying them with a plus sign (+). Talk about the characteristics that set the words apart and list them below the box to the right, keying them with a tilde sign (~).
- 2007, Stephen Blake Mettee, Michelle Doland, and Doris Hall, compilers, The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines, 6th ("2007–2008") edition, ?ISBN, page 757,
- Indicate the comparative value of each heading by keying it with a number in pencil, in the left margin, as follows: […]
- 1996 January, Garden Dsign Ideas, second printing, Taunton Press, ?ISBN, page 25,
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.
- (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- 1960, Richard L. Masland, "Classification of the Epilepsies", in Epilepsia, volume 1, page 516,
- The American Heart Association has prepared their own guide to classification and, keying it with the Standard Nomenclature of Diseases, have done much to encourage a concise yet complete diagnosis.
- 1960, Richard L. Masland, "Classification of the Epilepsies", in Epilepsia, volume 1, page 516,
- (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- 1936, John Freeman Pyle, Marketing Principles, Organization and Policies (page 711)
- Keying advertisements and counting the number of inquiries received or the number of coupons returned to indicate the "pulling power" of a particular piece of copy or the coverage of a particular advertising medium.
- 1998, Mail Order Success Secrets
- Another popular way to key ads and mailings is to use a suite number, room number, department number, desk number, etc. as part of the ordering address. With a classified ad, using such a key may increase your ad cost. Why? Because you're using an extra word or two to key the ad.
- 1936, John Freeman Pyle, Marketing Principles, Organization and Policies (page 711)
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis to this entry?)
Derived terms
- key in
- key off
- key out
- keyed up
Translations
References
Etymology 2
Variant of cay, from Spanish cayo, from Taíno cayo (“small island”)
Alternative forms
- cay
Noun
key (plural keys)
- One of a string of small islands.
- the Florida Keys
Derived terms
- Florida Keys
- Key West
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
key (plural keys)
- Alternative form of quay.
Etymology 4
Abbreviating kilogram, via kilo.
Noun
key (plural keys)
- (slang) Clipping of kilogram (especially of a recreational drug)
- Synonym: kay
- 2010, David J. Silas, Da Block (page 41)
- So starting with ten keys of cocaine and two keys of heroin, Derrick put his plan in motion. Soon every major drug dealer and gang chief from Chicago Avenue to Evanston was in his pocket.
Anagrams
- Kye, kye
Central Kurdish
Adverb
key (key)
- when
Manx
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
key m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
- cream
Derived terms
- key blinkit
- key feayr
- key riojey, key riojit
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
key m (genitive singular keyee)
- (nautical) quay
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