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Definition: HINTING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To allude or insinuate. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To suggest. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To gesture or signal.[Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Present participle 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 gleaming. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being dashing. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being gaping.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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"Hinting" is a common misspelling or typo for: hunting, tinting, hinging, hintings.

Date "Hinting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1535. (references)


Topics by Level of Interest: HINTING

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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).

"hinting" is a common misspelling or typo for: hunting, tinting, hinging, hintings.

Synonyms: hinting
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 suggesting, tipping, touching, tracing, alluding, intimating, allude, suggest, insinuate, implying, pointing, referencing, shading, signing, whispering, adumbrate, advising, arresting, bullocking, connote, contacting, cresting, evoking, farting, ghosting, glimmering, implicate, imply, indicate, infer, intend, jazzing, jotting, mean, mention, peaking, pinching, pinpointing, proffering, proposing, propositioning, signify, spotting, staring, starring, tethering, topping, tweaking, twisting.
Consider also: adumbrating, biting, dropping, glancing, indicating, insinuating, mentioning, prompting, referring, reminding, adverting, censuring, communicating, gossiping, streaking, scenting, cite, deduce, denote, entangle, guess, offer, involve, advise, augur, derive, induce, propose, show, submit, understand.

Adjective

 dashing, suggestive, crowning, leashing, steering.

Noun

 allusion, inkling, suggestion, beck, collaring, cue, implication, indication, insinuation, intimation, office, overtone, pointer, specking, symbol, tip, touch, wind.
Consider also: warning, airing, cautioning, hint, sign, charge, clue, coil, contact, twist, advice, agency, duty, emblem, evidence, function, position, proposal, stroke, tinge.

Adverb

 hintingly, insinuatingly.
Consider also: cunningly, craftily, ingratiatingly, deviously, ingeniously, shrewdly, sinuously, supplely, tenuously, treacherously, unctuously.

Other

 cluing, cuing, tincturing, becking, advert, aim, glance, intimate, tip-off.

Expression

 drop a hint, allude to, hint at.
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Computed Synonyms: hinting

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   107.3096   hinting     tipping     peaking, apexing, summiting, crowning, tipped   
 2   52.3095   hinting     cuing     signing, marking, gesturing, lining, evidencing   
 3   47.3095   hinting     marking     mark, symbolling, charactering, targeting, evidencing   
 4   44.3095   hinting     cluing     clewing, tracing, tracking, cuing, trailing   
 5   42.3094   hinting     touching     dashing, affecting, touch, moving, nilling   
 6   39.3094   hinting     signalling     signing, marking, gesturing, flagging, charactering   
 7   37.3094   hinting     gleaming     sheening, raying, lustring, gleam, gleamed   
 8   35.3092   hinting     counselling     advocating, attorneying, recommending, designing, viewing   
 9   30.3095   hinting     indexing     waving, handing, index, pitting, holing   
 10   29.3091   hinting     suspicioning     distrusting, doubting, mistrusting, suspecting, touching   
 11   27.3094   hinting     tracking     pathing, waying, passaging, footprinting, track   
 12   25.4094   hinting     indicating     suggesting, signifying, exhibiting, pinpointing, signalizing   
 13   25.3095   hinting     dashing     stroking, touching, dashed, dash, draughting   
 14   24.3094   hinting     trailing     pathing, dragging, drag, pull, waying   
 15   22.5096   hinting     scenting     perfuming, odouring, nosing, flavouring, tracking   
--------------------     708 synonyms ranked from 16 to 723 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: hinting

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   7.0091   hinting     to insinuate     insinuate, suggest, allude   
 2   5.0090   hinting     to allude     allude, insinuate, suggest   
 3   2.3094   hinting     bring in     carry, earn, get   
 4   2.3082   hinting     my signature is binding     secure, hiring, engaging   
 5   2.0192   hinting     to hold     take, to grip, to bite   
 6   2.0189   hinting     hammer down     drive, press down, batter in   
 7   2.0095   hinting     fit in     fit, arrange, like   
 8   2.0094   hinting     let in     go in, enter in, in between   
 9   2.0094   hinting     live in     inhabit, live, dwell   
 10   2.0093   hinting     work in     insert, put in, introduce   
 11   2.0092   hinting     kick off     begin, initiate, insert   
 12   2.0092   hinting     add to     add, add up, join   
 13   2.0092   hinting     mixed up     messy, disorderly, confused   
 14   2.0090   hinting     fall over     take a nosedive, come down, fall down   
 15   2.0084   hinting     destined to receive     to live, live in, give shelter   
--------------------     27 synonyms ranked from 16 to 42 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: hinting

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.7796   hinting at     hinting     tipping, cuing   
 2   1.4092   hinting at     insinuating     insinuate, indicating   
 3   1.3191   hinting at     alluding     suggesting, implying   
 4   1.1091   hinting at     start     begin, commence   
 5   1.0189   hinting at     allusively     suggestively, alluvially   
 6   1.0189   hinting at     allusive     suggestive, insinuating   
 7   1.0189   hinting at     allude     hint, refer   
 8   1.0090   hinting at     pass to     commit to, transmit   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HINTING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya إِيماءَة (gesture, sign, allusion, allusions, citation), شَوَّرَ (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, advert), أَشَارَ إِلَى (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, allude), إِشَارَة (signal, allusion, gesture, hint, indication), إِيعاز (admonition, admonitions, advice, allusion, allusions), إِيماء (gesticulation, gesture, allusion, allusions, citation), تَوْمِئَة (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations), تَنْويه (commendation, compliment, complimented, complimenting, compliments), إِيحاء (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha إِيماءَة (gesture, sign, allusion, allusions, citation), شَوَّرَ (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, advert), أَشَارَ إِلَى (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, allude), إِشَارَة (signal, allusion, gesture, hint, indication), إِيعاز (admonition, admonitions, advice, allusion, allusions), إِيماء (gesticulation, gesture, allusion, allusions, citation), تَوْمِئَة (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations), تَنْويه (commendation, compliment, complimented, complimenting, compliments), إِيحاء (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic إِيماءَة (gesture, sign, allusion, allusions, citation), شَوَّرَ (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, advert), أَشَارَ إِلَى (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, allude), إِشَارَة (signal, allusion, gesture, hint, indication), إِيعاز (admonition, admonitions, advice, allusion, allusions), إِيماء (gesticulation, gesture, allusion, allusions, citation), تَوْمِئَة (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations), تَنْويه (commendation, compliment, complimented, complimenting, compliments), إِيحاء (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian zeštíhlení (hinting), nagoviještanje (hinting), nagoviještanja (hinting), aludirati (allude, hinting), naznačování (hinting). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese sugira (suggest, bespeak, hinting), sugerindo (suggesting, bespeaking, hinting). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Tai เป็นข้อเสนอแนะ (suggestive, evocative, hinting, indicative). Additional references: Central Tai, Thailand, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina zeštíhlení (hinting), nagoviještanje (hinting), nagoviještanja (hinting), aludirati (allude, hinting), naznačování (hinting). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 暗示 (hint, drop a hint, suggest, suggestion, allude). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse ficcà (slip, insert, engage, entangle, to engage), surggerì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer), insinuì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi ficcà (slip, insert, engage, entangle, to engage), surggerì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer), insinuì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican ficcà (slip, insert, engage, entangle, to engage), surggerì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer), insinuì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso ficcà (slip, insert, engage, entangle, to engage), surggerì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer), insinuì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu ficcà (slip, insert, engage, entangle, to engage), surggerì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer), insinuì (insinuate, to insinuate, allude, to allude, infer). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Croatian aludirati (allude, hinting). Additional references: Croatian, Croatia, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech zeštíhlení (hinting), nagoviještanje (hinting), nagoviještanja (hinting), aludirati (allude, hinting), naznačování (hinting). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch anspielend (alluding, allusive, insinuating, allusively, hinting), andeuten (suggest, indicate, imply, intimate, to suggest). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Français optimisation (optimization, optimisation, hinting, optimizing, tuning), laissant entendre (hinting), insinuer (insinuate, hint, to insinuate, allude, suggest). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
French optimisation (optimization, optimisation, hinting, optimizing, tuning), laissant entendre (hinting), insinuer (insinuate, hint, to insinuate, allude, suggest). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
German anspielend (alluding, allusive, insinuating, allusively, hinting), andeuten (suggest, indicate, imply, intimate, to suggest). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic إِيماءَة (gesture, sign, allusion, allusions, citation), شَوَّرَ (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, advert), أَشَارَ إِلَى (adumbrate, adumbrated, adumbrates, adumbrating, allude), إِشَارَة (signal, allusion, gesture, hint, indication), إِيعاز (admonition, admonitions, advice, allusion, allusions), إِيماء (gesticulation, gesture, allusion, allusions, citation), تَوْمِئَة (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations), تَنْويه (commendation, compliment, complimented, complimenting, compliments), إِيحاء (citation, citations, citing, gesticulation, gesticulations). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
High German anspielend (alluding, allusive, insinuating, allusively, hinting), andeuten (suggest, indicate, imply, intimate, to suggest). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch anspielend (alluding, allusive, insinuating, allusively, hinting), andeuten (suggest, indicate, imply, intimate, to suggest). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ヒントを与え (hinting). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian Å antyding (hinting). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese sugira (suggest, bespeak, hinting), sugerindo (suggesting, bespeaking, hinting). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Scots Gaelic sanasach (allusive, hinting, warning). Additional references: Scots Gaelic, United Kingdom, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Siamese เป็นข้อเสนอแนะ (suggestive, evocative, hinting, indicative). Additional references: Siamese, Thailand, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish reticente (reticent, hinting, implying, reluctant), insinuar (insinuate, to insinuate, hint, imply, advance). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Standard Thai เป็นข้อเสนอแนะ (suggestive, evocative, hinting, indicative). Additional references: Standard Thai, Thailand, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Thai เป็นข้อเสนอแนะ (suggestive, evocative, hinting, indicative). Additional references: Thai, Thailand, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Thaiklang เป็นข้อเสนอแนะ (suggestive, evocative, hinting, indicative). Additional references: Thaiklang, Thailand, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Turkish imalı (suggestive, allusive, insinuating, containing a hint or implication, hinting), girişiminizde başarılar (good hinting). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, hinting. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: HINTING

Language Translations for “hinting” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin intinghay (hinting). Additional references: Pig Latin, hinting. (volunteer)
Terran B susiran (hinting). Additional references: Terran B, hinting. (volunteer)
Source: compiled by the editor. Top