Hint can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| hint - drop a hint; intimate by a hint | ||
Noun |
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| hint - an indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her" | ||
| hint - a slight indication | ||
| hint - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" | ||
| hint - a just detectable amount; "he speaks French with a trace of an accent" | ||
| hint - a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" |
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| 1. | noun | Still if you can get your pet shop to do a hardness or TDS (total Dissolved Solids) test, that may give you a hint. | |
| 2. | noun | When I didn't know how to answer the question, he gave me a hint. | |
| 3. | noun | There was a hint of fall in the air. | |
| 4. | noun | They didn't so much as hint at it. | |
| 5. | noun | He managed to avoid damaging my reputation by dropping a hint. | |
| 6. | noun | He gave me a hint. | |
| 7. | noun | She took my hint and smiled. | |
| 8. | noun | He took a slight hint as the start and found the correct answer. | |
| 9. | noun | At this hint of the violent storm to come we shuddered as one. | |
| 10. | noun | The girl, her eyes shining brightly from that single hint, makes her cute cat-motif automatic pencil run across her notebook. | |
| 11. | noun | The number of *****s in the hint has no relation to the number of characters in the word. | |
| 12. | noun | "Noobs?" Dima asked, a slight hint of anger in his voice. "This isn't a video game, Al-Sayib! This is real life!" | |
| 13. | noun | Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character. | |
| 14. | noun | His restlessness gave her a hint that something was wrong. | |
| 15. | noun | For the intelligent, a hint is sufficient. | |
| 16. | verb | Maybe because they hint at a larger conspiracy/network of abusers/satanic underground? | |
| 17. | verb | I will try to say it guardedly, I will only politely hint at it. | |
| 18. | verb | Bucklaw afterwards went abroad, and never returned to Scotland; nor was he known ever to hint at the circumstances attending his fatal marriage. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| Still if you can get your pet shop to do a hardness or TDS (total Dissolved Solids) test, that may give you a hint. |
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| When I didn't know how to answer the question, he gave me a hint. | |
| There was a hint of fall in the air. | |
| They didn't so much as hint at it. | |
| He managed to avoid damaging my reputation by dropping a hint. | |
| He gave me a hint. | |
| She took my hint and smiled. | |
| He took a slight hint as the start and found the correct answer. | |
| At this hint of the violent storm to come we shuddered as one. | |
| The girl, her eyes shining brightly from that single hint, makes her cute cat-motif automatic pencil run across her notebook. | |
| The number of *****s in the hint has no relation to the number of characters in the word. | |
| "Noobs?" Dima asked, a slight hint of anger in his voice. "This isn't a video game, Al-Sayib! This is real life!" | |
| Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character. | |
| His restlessness gave her a hint that something was wrong. | |
| For the intelligent, a hint is sufficient. | |
| verb | |
| Maybe because they hint at a larger conspiracy/network of abusers/satanic underground? |
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| I will try to say it guardedly, I will only politely hint at it. | |
| Bucklaw afterwards went abroad, and never returned to Scotland; nor was he known ever to hint at the circumstances attending his fatal marriage. | |