Revelation vs Hint - What's the difference?
revelation | hint |
The act of revealing or disclosing.
Something that is revealed.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Something dramatically disclosed.
(theology) A manifestation of divine truth.
A great success.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 21, author=Jonathan Jurejko, work=BBC Sport
, title= 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.
As nouns the difference between revelation and hint
is that revelation is the act of revealing or disclosing while hint is a clue.As a proper noun Revelation
is the final book of the New Testament of the Bible.As a verb hint is
to suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.revelation
English
Noun
(wikipedia revelation) (en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
Newcastle 3-0 Stoke, passage=The 26-year-old has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road.}}
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 .
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 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 .