Word Finder - hinting

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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.

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The act of giving a hint or suggestion.

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A display adjustment for fonts on digital media, causing letters to be aligned with a rasterized grid.

It is unlikely that he inserted this postscript from a feeling of ironical playfulness, to make the Galatians realize that, after the sternness of the early chapters, he was now treating them like children, "playfully hinting that surely the large letters will touch their hearts" (so Deissmann, Bible-Studies (1901), 346 f.).

Had she been hinting at an almost mystical dimension to her work?

Walch's Bibliotheca Theologica (1757) not published complete until 1663) was universally understood as hinting conclusions hostile to Christianity (cf.

Without entering into any examination of the charges brought before them, the synod condemned him on the ground of contumacy, and, hinting that his audacity merited the punishment of treason, called on the emperor to ratify and enforce their decision.

During the journey a video is played hinting at man 's violence and our romanticism of the countryside.

The link between iPhone and Verizon Wireless is still a rumor, though activity on that rumor mill is picking up, hinting at a Verizon iPhone release announcement as early as June 2009.

After hinting to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show shortly after her marriage about the possibility of a baby, the "bump watch" began.

Similarly, gifts that poke fun at marriage foibles in demeaning or harsh terms should be avoided at this type of optimistic celebration, as well as any gifts hinting far beyond the wedding ceremony - starting a family, for example.

It also cemented the fact that diamonds should be big by hinting that the gentleman should spend three months' salary on the rock.

With that said, a little guidance and hinting can help ensure that the day goes well.

Whether you are hinting with other Facebook users or writing the next version of the cheat engine, the fact is FarmVille has become one of the biggest social media game hits ever.

Was he hinting that she should give more attention to the exterior of the house?

Clowes; The Rough Riders (1899); Oliver Cromwell (1901); the following works on hunting and natural history, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1886), Ranch Life and Hunting Trail (1888), The Wilderness Hunter (1893), Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Plains (1899; a republication of Hinting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter), The Deer Family (1902), with other authors, and African Game Trails (1910); and the essays, American Ideals (2 vols., 1897) and The Strenuous Life (1900); and State Papers and Addresses (1905) and African and European Addresses (1910).

Voltaire's influence in creating public interest in the "man in the mask," was indeed enormous; he had himself been imprisoned in the Bastille in 1717 and again in 1726; as early as 1745 he is found hinting that he knows something; in the Siècle de Louis XIV he justifies his account on the score of conversations with de Bernaville, who succeeded Saint-Mars.

Whenever I considered such a course of action even hinting about what we're doing, I tended to temporarily forget the magnitude of Howie's gift.

He's gone ahead and drawn court papers for the first steps to have her declared a looney and I guess he's hinting at the possibility the two of you are banging each other.

Ascending then descending chords and melody opened things nicely, a crooned vocal hinting at an intimate, almost confessional relationship.

These advanced features and tool-types are markedly absent in the Siwalik Acheulian facies, hence hinting at its own older antiquity.

Haven't evolutionary geneticists been hinting at this all along by telling us that monkeys are where our genetic codes come from?

Was that what he was hinting at when he said she was his best friend - that he needed someone to talk to?

For this end he had obtained letters of recommendation to the guardian, to whom, however, he only spoke of his desire of satisfying his devotion, not hinting his other motive.