hint meaning
EN
[hɪnt] [-ɪnt] 
US WHint
- Hint and similar may refer to:
- Font hinting, a process for optimizing the rasterization of vectors
- Hint (musician), musician Jonathan James, from Sussex, UK.
- Hint (SQL), a feature of the SQL computer language
- Hint Water, a beverage company from San Francisco, California
- Hints, Staffordshire, a village in Staffordshire, England
- Motorola Hint QA30, a mobile phone introduced by Motorola
- NounPLhints
- A clue.
- I needed a hint to complete the crossword.
- A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- He gave me a hint that my breath smelt.
- A small, barely detectable amount of.
- There was a hint of irony in his voice.
- I could taste a hint of lemon in the wine.
- 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.
- (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
- A clue.
- VerbSGhintsPRhintingPT, PPhinted
- (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
- She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
- (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
- to hint a suspicion
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, / And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.
- But schemes are perfectly accidental: some will appear barren of hints and matter, but prove to be fruitful [ …] .
- There’s a hint of tropicality, with mango kicking in on the crisp citrus finish.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Hints and Miidel [15 ] reported encrustation by the edrioasteroid echinoderm Cyathocystis .
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of hint in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- en hints
- en hinting
- en hinterland
- en hinted
- en hinter
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "hint" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.