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-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. Synonym: intimate (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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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 === IPA(key): /ɦɪnt/ Hyphenation: hint Rhymes: -ɪnt === 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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (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