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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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report
English
Etymology
From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + port?re.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???p??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p??t/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /???po?t/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po(?)?t/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)
- (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15thc.]
- (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th-18thc.]
- (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15thc.]
- (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19thc.]
- (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19thc.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19thc.]
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
- In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
- Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
- (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
- To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
- (obsolete) To refer.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- Baldwin, his son, […] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
Derived terms
- aforereported
- reporter
- underreport
- unreported
Translations
Noun
report (plural reports)
- A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
- Reputation.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
- I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
- (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
- […] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
- An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
- Synonym: subordinate
Derived terms
- (piece of information): on report, report card
- (employee): direct report, indirect report
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)
Translations
Further reading
- Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper
French
Etymology
deverbal of reporter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.p??/
Noun
report m (plural reports)
- postponement
- deferment
Synonyms
- ajournement
Further reading
- “report” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- porter
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