TO HINT AT

  

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TO HINT AT

Definition: TO HINT AT

TO HINT AT

1. To allude to lightly, indirectly, or cautiously. Syn: To allude; refer; glance; touch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO HINT AT

Specialty definitions using "TO HINT AT": Allude toMentionRefer to. (references)

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Use in Literature: TO HINT AT

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Modern Translation: TO HINT AT

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TO HINT AT

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

innui, innuo, innuo, innui, innutum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: TO HINT AT

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO HINT AT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      48 49 4E 54      41 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01001000 01001001 01001110 01010100 00100000 01000001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#32 &#65 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0048 0049 004E 0054      0041 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544924243485423554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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