| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Hint.[Websters]
2. To have marked, signalled, stamped or gestured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be cued. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have clued, tracked or imprinted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be scented. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have touched, dashed or tinged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be shaded or hued. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have counselled or boarded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be tinted or colored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be trademarked or labeled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb hint.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hint) | 1. Drop a hint; intimate by a hint.[Wordnet]. 2. To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.[Websters]. 3. To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: hinting, hinted, hints, hinter, hinters, hintingly and hintedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being scented or perfumed.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being advanced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being veiled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being roundabout. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being oblique. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being implicit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being trademarked or labeled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being coloured or colored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being stained or soiled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HINTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hint
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | HINT Hierarchical Information NeTs. A language for the CDC 3600. ["HINT: A Graph Processing Language", R.D. Hart, Michigan State U, Apr 1970]. (1994-12-07) Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to allude to; to suggest by a slight intimation. Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.. | 2: [Verb] To hint at, is to allude to; to mention slightly.. | 3: [Noun] A distant allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a word or two intended to give notice, or remind one of something without a full declaration or explanation.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A clue. I needed a hint to complete the crossword. (references) | 2: [Noun] A small, barely detectable amount of. This entry requires a hint of irony. (references) | 3: [Noun] 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. (references) | 4: [Verb] To deliberately imply, indirectly suggest, or provide a clue. She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes. (references) | 5: [Verb] 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. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Common Expressions: hint
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Hint (music) | Hint is musician Jonathan James, hailing from Sussex in the UK. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Abbreviations & Acronyms: hint
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| HINT | English | Hierarchical INTegration | Computer - Computer - (Uni Colorado) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: hint | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hint | 8 | Hint | 8 | |
| Hint (musician) | 6 | Hint (musician) | 6 | |
| Universal Hint System | 4 | Universal Hint System | 4 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
