English Online Dictionary. What means hint? What does hint mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English hinten, hynten, variant of henten (“to lay hold of, catch”), from Old English hentan (“to seize, grasp”), from Proto-West Germanic *hantijan, from Proto-Germanic *hantijaną. Doublet of hent. Related also to hunt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɪnt/
- Rhymes: -ɪnt
Noun
hint (plural hints)
- A clue.
- Synonyms: indication, tip
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- Synonyms: allusion, implication, innuendo, insinuation, nod
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- Synonyms: touch, trace; see also Thesaurus:modicum
- (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.
- (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
- Synonyms: chance, moment
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
hint (third-person singular simple present hints, present participle hinting, simple past and past participle hinted)
- (intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
- (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
- (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:allude
Translations
Interjection
hint
- (often reduplicated) Signifies that something previously said should be taken as a hint or heeded closely.
Anagrams
- Nith, thin, thin'
Danish
Etymology 1
From English hint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhenˀd̥]
Noun
hint n (singular definite hintet, plural indefinite hint or hints)
- hint, clue
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhiˀnd̥], [hind̥]
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
- inflection of hinten:
- first/second/third-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Hungarian
Etymology
From an unattested stem of unknown origin + -t (causative suffix). The stem was probably him-, related to obsolete himlik and thus himlő. It may have had at least a variant with velar /ɯ/, giving rise to the forms hinta and hintó, as reflected by their back-vowel suffixes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhint]
- 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
- A cukrász porcukrot hint a süteményre. ― The confectioner sprinkles powedered sugar on the cookie.
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
References
Further reading
- hint in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). 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
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɪnt/
Verb
hint
- to hunt
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46