different between hinting vs minting

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hinting (countable and uncountable, plural hintings)

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.
(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.

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minting (plural mintings)

The act by which money is minted.
- 1996, Don McNeil, Epidemiological Research Methods (page 83)
  A question of interest here is whether the silver contents in the four mintings are different.

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