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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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utterance
English
Alternative forms
- utteraunce
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t???ns/
- Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance
Etymology 1
From utter +? -ance.
Noun
utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)
- An act of uttering.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
- July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review
- Something spoken.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.
- The ability to speak.
- A manner of speaking.
- (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.
Related terms
- utter
- utterable
- utterer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old French oultrance.
Noun
utterance (plural utterances)
- (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
References
Further reading
- utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- cruentate
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