Riddle vs Hint - What's the difference?
riddle | hint |
A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To wring from me, and tell to them, my secret, / That solved the riddle which I had proposed.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
To put something through a .
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To fill with holes like a .
To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
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 a proper noun riddle
is .As a noun hint is
a clue.As a verb hint is
to suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.riddle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* enigma, conundrum, brain-teaserDerived terms
* riddler * riddle stick * a riddle wrapped up in an enigmaVerb
(riddl)- Riddle me this'', meaning ''Answer the following question.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(riddl)- You have to riddle the gravel before you lay it on the road.
- The machinegun fire began to riddle the poor Afghanis.
- Your argument is riddled with errors.
Anagrams
* (l)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 .
