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hint

  [hint]
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–noun
1. an indirect, covert, or helpful suggestion; clue: Give me a hint as to his identity.
2. a very slight or hardly noticeable amount; soupçon: a hint of garlic in the salad dressing.
3. perceived indication or suggestion; note; intimation: a hint of spring in the air.
4. Obsolete. an occasion or opportunity.
–verb (used with object)
5. to give a hint of: gray skies hinting a possible snowfall.
–verb (used without object)
6. to make indirect suggestion or allusion; subtly imply (usually fol. by at): The article hinted at corruption in the mayor's office.
Origin:
1595–1605; (n.) orig., opportunity, occasion, appar. var. of obs. hent grasp, act of seizing, deriv. of the v.: to grasp, take, ME henten, OE hentan; (v.) deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
hinter, noun

Synonyms:
1. allusion, insinuation, innuendo; memorandum, reminder; inkling. 5. imply. Hint, intimate, insinuate, suggest denote the conveying of an idea to the mind indirectly or without full or explicit statement. To hint is to convey an idea covertly or indirectly, but intelligibly: to hint that one would like a certain present; to hint that bits of gossip might be true. To intimate is to give a barely perceptible hint, often with the purpose of influencing action: to intimate that something may be possible. To insinuate is to hint artfully, often at what one would not dare to say directly: to insinuate something against someone's reputation. Suggest denotes particularly recalling something to the mind or starting a new train of thought by means of association of ideas: The name doesn't suggest anything to me.

Antonyms:
5. express, declare.
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hint   (hĭnt)   
n.  

  1. A slight indication or intimation: wanted to avoid any hint of scandal.

    1. A brief or indirect suggestion; a tip: stock-trading hints.

    2. A statement conveying information in an indirect fashion; a clue: Give me a hint about the big news.

  3. A barely perceptible amount: just a hint of color.

  4. Archaic An occasion; an opportunity.

v.   hint·ed, hint·ing, hints

v.   tr.
To indicate or make known in an indirect manner.
v.   intr.
To give a hint: wouldn't hint at the true purpose of the meeting. See Synonyms at suggest.

[Probably from Middle English hinten, henten, to catch, grasp, from Old English hentan.]
hint'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

hint 
1604, from obsolete hent, from O.E. hentan "to seize," from P.Gmc. *khantijanan (cf. Goth. hinþan "to seize"), related to hunt. Modern sense and spelling first attested in Shakespeare.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

hint

see take a hint.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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