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Definition: TO HINT AT |
TO HINT AT1. To allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously. Syn: To allude; refer; glance; touch. |
Crosswords: TO HINT AT |
| Specialty definitions using "TO HINT AT": Allude to ♦ Mention ♦ Refer to. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO HINT AT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | célozgat vmire (to hint at sg). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 匂わせる (to give off a scent, to intimate, to smell of), 仄めかす (to allude to, to intimate, to suggest). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ほのめかす (to allude to, to intimate, to suggest), におわせる (to give off a scent, to intimate, to smell of). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay inthay atay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | innui, innuo, innuo, innui, innutum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-n-o-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: taint, tanto, titan. | |
-4 letters: anti, hant, hint, into, iota, naoi, nota, oath, ohia, tain, than, that, thin, thio, tint, toit. | |
-5 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, att, hao, hat, hin, hit, hon, hot, ion, nah, nit, noh, not, nth, oat, tan, tao, tat, tho, tin, tit, ton, tot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-n-o-t-t-t" | |
+4 letters: photostating. | |
+5 letters: antiauthority, authenticator, ethnobotanist, ghettoization, photostatting, thanatologist, thermostating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      48 49 4E 54      41 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01001000 01001001 01001110 01010100 00100000 01000001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   H I N T   A T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0048 0049 004E 0054      0041 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544924243485423554 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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