hint

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 2 Hungarian 2.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From obsolete hent, from Old English hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *khantijanan.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɪnt/, SAMPA: /hInt/
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• Rhymes: -ɪnt

[edit] Noun

hint (plural hints)

1. A clue.

   I needed a hint to complete the crossword.

2. A small, barely detectable amount of.

   This entry requires a hint of irony.

3. 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. Also known as hinting.

   This font does not scale well; at small point sizes it has no hinting at all, and the hints that it has for the 10- and 12-point letter 'g' still need work.

[edit] Translations

• Finnish: vihje (1)
• Japanese: ヒント (hinto) (1)
• Italian: accenno it(it), allusione it(it), indizio it(it), aiuto it(it), dritta it(it) (1)
• German: Hinweis m. (1)

[edit] Verb

to hint (third-person singular simple present hints, present participle hinting, simple past and past participle hinted)

1. To deliberately imply, indirectly suggest, or provide a clue.

   She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.

2. 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.

[edit] Translations

• Finnish: vihjata (1), vihjailla (1)
• French: allusion f. (1)
• Japanese: ほのめかす (honomekasu)(1)
• Spanish: indicio (1), pista (1), pizca (2)

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Verb

hint

1. to scatter

   A cukrász porcukrot hint a süteményre.