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oint
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman oint, Middle French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??nt/
Verb
oint (third-person singular simple present oints, present participle ointing, simple past and past participle ointed)
- (now rare, poetic) To anoint.
- They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.
Anagrams
- -tion, -toin, INTO, Toni, into, noit, on it
Catalan
Etymology
Present participle of oir, possibly corresponding to Latin audi?ns, audientem.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /u?int/
- (Central) IPA(key): /u?in/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /o?int/
Verb
oint
- present participle of oir
Noun
oint
- (archaic) hearer
Synonyms
- oïdor
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w??/
Etymology
From Middle French oint, from Old French oint, from Latin unctus.
Verb
oint m (feminine singular ointe, masculine plural oints, feminine plural ointes)
- past participle of oindre
Old French
Etymology 1
From Latin unctus.
Verb
oint
- past participle of oindre
Descendants
- Middle French: oint
- French: oint
Etymology 2
From Latin unctum.
Noun
oint m (oblique plural oinz or ointz, nominative singular oinz or ointz, nominative plural oint)
- lard; fat; grease
- ointment
Related terms
- ointure
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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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