hints

Meaning of hints

noun
  1. A clue.
    I needed a hint to complete the crossword.
  2. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
    He gave me a hint that my breath smelt.
  3. A small, barely detectable amount of.
    I could taste a hint of lemon in the wine.
  4. 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.
  5. An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
verb
  1. To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
    She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.
  2. To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
    to hint a suspicion
  3. 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.

Information about hints

  • The singular form of hints is: hint.
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Hyphenation of hints

hints

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • hints is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of hints

thins, thisn

Words that rhyme with hints

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