Definizione monolingua

hint

hint (third-person singular simple present hints, present participle hinting, simple past and past participle hinted)

1. To deliberately imply, indirectly suggest, or provide a clue.

   She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes.

2. To develop and add hints to a font.

   The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens.

hint (plural hints)

1. A clue.

   I needed a hint to complete the crossword.

2. A small, barely detectable amount of.

   There was a hint of irony in his voice.

   I could taste a hint of lemon in the wine.

3. Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the fonts glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering. Also known as hinting.

   This font does not scale well; at small point sizes it has no hinting at all, and the hints that it has for the 10- and 12-point letter g still need work.

Definizione dizionario hint

	allusione
	clue

	accenno
	clue

alludere

	aiuto
	clue

	dritta
	clue

	indizio
	clue

	suggerimento
	clue

	hint
	An option or strategy specified for enforcement by the SQL Server query processor on SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statements. The hint overrides any execution plan the query optimizer might select for a query.

accennare

cenno

consiglio

indicazione

insinuazione

ombra

riferimento

spunto

suggerire

traccia

Altri significati:

graze (in passing)

express suggestively

To develop and add hints to a font.

A small, barely detectable amount of.

To deliberately imply, indirectly suggest, or provide a clue.

(not) an iota of

A clue.

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.