Word Finder - hint

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A clue.

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I needed a hint to complete the crossword.

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A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

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He gave me a hint that my breath smelt.

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A small, barely detectable amount of.

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I could taste a hint of lemon in the wine.

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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.

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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.

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An opportunity; occasion; fit time.

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To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.

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She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.

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To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.

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to hint a suspicion

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To develop and add hints to a font.

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The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens.

Brennan offered a hint of information.

The kind man's face held a hint of sympathy.

I sensed his surprise, and a hint of nervousness.

If it was so simple, Andre wouldn't be trying to drop a hint without betraying the confidence of Deidre.

Landon took the hint and left.

I asked her if she perceived any hint of threat.

It is delightful here, smelling of sun-drenched pine and a hint of campfires.

Any hint what she's going to do?

I just want to see if Martha left me a note or if there's any hint to what's going on.

Damian ignored his hint, and Lon didn't press.

My only hint occurred during a dance with Martha at our wedding reception.

At the first hint of below freezing weather, Howie was on the job, covering everything and reading up on all preventive measures known to man.

It was a rare event for Fred to speak of his past, especially when it sounded like a hint of the truth.

His next kiss was consuming, hungry yet sweet, teasing her with a hint of promise and driving her body to new heights of awareness.

But nowhere in it was there even a hint that it might not be possible.

I will only hint at some of the enterprises which I have cherished.

They understood giving any credibility to a hint of the existence of a psychic tipster adversely affected their ultimate chance for a conviction.

It's a no-no because defense attorneys are all over any hint of psychic involvement.

Martha signed the dollar bill with a hint of a smile.

Dean looked back at Fred in the rear view mirror but there was no hint of clarification.

Jennifer asked, a hint of fear in her voice.

When conversation lagged, they apparently took the hint and retreated into Bird Song.

There was a hint of recognition on the man's face as he glanced over Dean's shoulder at Edith Shipton who had just emerged from the parlor.

I get the hint this Ronnie and Howie don't dance to the same fiddle player.

Can you hint at your limitations?

After a solid hour of the child crying, I wondered if the mother read about the abandoned child, perhaps with a fleeting hint of sympathy.

Sofia exchanged a look with Linda, and the chipper woman took the hint.

There was a hint of a smile and a roll of her eyes at Fred's pun.

Gabriel held the door open for Katie, who took the hint and walked out.

The flakes drifted directly down, undisturbed in their descent by any hint of a breeze in the still night air.

Martha just continued to nod and look straight ahead but she wore a hint of a smile.

The glossy color photo displayed a concentrated young woman, hand-climbing upside down, across a rock face that looked devoid of any hint of a hand hold.

He sat back with a hint of smugness.

Dean detected a hint of a blush from his card-playing partner.

Martha, dressed exactly as she had been when she'd left, clutched her new suitcase while the barest hint of a smile graced her pretty face.

Claire gave a hint of a nod, remaining under the archway to the parlor, as if entering might subject her to some vile disease from these common folk.

Surprisingly, Fred O'Connor, arch fan of any hint of mystery, remained uninterested in the Donald Ryland-Edith Shipton-Jerome Shipton triangle.

A blue-green tint shone through the sunlight while frozen waterfalls, hanging from the upstream cliffs, bore a hint of the rust-orange hue from the natural deposits of Red Mountain above.

Your marital difficulties aren't our business but Bird Song is and we don't want any hint of trouble here.

She then added, with a hint of silly smile, "Foolish me."

He sauntered down Main Street, the hint of a self-satisfied smirk playing across full, pink lips.

Kalnky desired that both the terms of the treaty and the fact of its conclusion should remain secret, but Bismarck and Mancini hastened to hint at its existence, the former in the Reichstag on the 12th of June 1882, and the latter in the Italian semi-official press.

He let it be known that he strongly disapproved of their proposal to elect Count Melzi, the Italian statesman most suitable for the post; and a hint given by Talleyrand showed the reason for his disapproval.

Voltaire obeyed this hint as far as Les Delices was concerned, and consoled himself by having the performances in his Lausanne house.

The hint was taken, of course,.

He got the hint of a noumenal will from Kant; but in regarding the noumenal as knowable, because mental, as well as in the emphasis he laid on the activity of will, he resembled Fichte.

Try to think of the advances we have seen so far in history as the very tip of the iceberg, a hint of what is possible, not even being within sight of what is possible.

This whiskey also boasts a hint of cinnamon.

Mysterious key appears - Japanese text with "stop", presumably a hint on what to do next.

Her voice held resolve, but a hint of worry sat on her brow, so he hugged her.