HINT

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hint I. substantiv

1. aluzie; insinuare;

a broad hint a) o aluzie transparentă / străvezie; b) o insinuare (prea) puţin voalată;

to let fall / to drop a hint a face o aluzie / o insinuare, a arunca o vorbă;

to take the / a hint a înţelege aluziile, a pricepe fără multă vorbă.

2. indicaţie, sugestie, recomandare, sfat;

hints on housekeeping sfaturi menajere.

hint II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a imagina, a sugera, a da, a lăsa să se înţeleagă.

2. a sugera, a propune, a recomanda (în treacăt).

hint II. verb B. intranzitiv

(at) a face aluzie (la); (that) a insinua, a da / a lăsa să se înţeleagă (că).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

If able to suggest a hint, Isabella could never understand it.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I suppose you have no hint to give me?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I venture to hint, that Sir Walter Elliot cannot be half so jealous for his own, as John Shepherd will be for him.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

There was not a hint of Mr. Martin.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

As it was, however, she only hazarded a hint, and the hint was lost.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

This day will also give you a hint of how special your social life will become.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Mr. Dick took his finger out of his mouth, on this hint, and stood among the group, with a grave and attentive expression of face.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So I took the hint, and came too.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He took the hint, and soon began with, “This seems a very comfortable house. Lady Catherine, I believe, did a great deal to it when Mr. Collins first came to Hunsford.”

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

That got researchers to thinking that water temperature at the bottom of the Pacific could offer a hint of what surface temperatures were like hundreds of years ago.

(Bottom of Pacific Found to Be Getting Colder, Editura Global Info)

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