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Dinted vs Hinted - What's the difference?

dinted | hinted |

As verbs the difference between dinted and hinted

is that dinted is past tense of dint while hinted is past tense of hint.

dinted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dint)

    • dint

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dint, dent, . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • (label) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
  • *, I.i:
  • *:Much daunted with that dint , her sence was dazd.
  • * 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xxxi:
  • *:Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint , or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
  • Force, power; especially in (by dint of).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity.
  • *Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
  • *:It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.
  • The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]
  • :(Dryden)
    • Derived terms
    * by dint of

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dent
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Jeffery Farnol, title=Beltane The Smith, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1854, author=W. Harrison Ainsworth, title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot. }}

    Etymology 2

    Contraction

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    hinted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hint)

    • hint

    English

    (wikipedia hint)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clue.
  • A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
  • A small, barely detectable amount of.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,
  • 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 .
  • (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • I, not remembering how I cried out then, / Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint / That wrings mine eyes to't.

    Synonyms

    * (small amount) see also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
    • She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I have tried, as I hinted , to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. … .”}}
  • To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
    • to hint a suspicion
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike.
  • 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 .

    Synonyms

    * allude * imply * insinuate * suggest

    Anagrams

    * ----