Hint vs Utterance - What's the difference?
hint | utterance | Related terms |
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.
An act of uttering.
* (John Milton)
Something spoken.
* , chapter=13
, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
The ability to speak.
Manner of speaking.
* Bible, Acts ii. 4
* (John Keats)
(obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
(obsolete) Putting in circulation.
The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
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*:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
Hint is a related term of utterance.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between hint and utterance
is that hint is (obsolete) an opportunity; occasion; fit time while utterance is (obsolete) putting in circulation.As nouns the difference between hint and utterance
is that hint is a clue while utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc).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
* ----utterance
English
Alternative forms
* utteraunceEtymology 1
FromNoun
(en noun)- at length gave utterance to these words
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
- O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
- (Francis Bacon)
