Hint vs Intimation - What's the difference?
hint | intimation |
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 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
To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
* Alexander Pope
To develop and add hints to a font.
The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
Announcement; declaration.
* (Holland)
A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
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* 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :
As nouns the difference between hint and intimation
is that hint is a clue while intimation is the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.As a verb hint
is to suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.hint
English
(wikipedia hint)Noun
(en noun)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,
- 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)- She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes .
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- to hint a suspicion
- Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike.
- The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens .
Synonyms
* allude * imply * insinuate * suggestAnagrams
* ----intimation
English
Noun
(en noun)- They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
- Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
- At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.