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Editorial note

There are dialogs and UI hints that come up when the service is first accessed.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A clue.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hints gathered in one view.

noun

A clue.

noun

An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

noun

A small, barely detectable amount.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hints.

noun

A clue.

noun

An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

noun

A small, barely detectable amount.

noun

(databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.

Example sentences

There are dialogs and UI hints that come up when the service is first accessed.

They do provide some ways of getting hints if you get stuck, but you have to actively seek these out.

If interested, send me a github, interesting blog post, or other cool project giving hints as to what you can do.

After the fact it's clear, and nowadays googling it would probably give enough hints.

Mark said that if he died there would be hints that one of his best friends could follow to find and unlock the cold-wallets.

I don't suppose you've seen any hints of release dates have you?

They're not type-incompatible in any way that doesn't violate those compiler hints in the first place - C and C++ fully support sensible coercion between const and non-const types.

This blog post hints at but doesn't outright state a crucial fact about TCO: it is only possible when the code could be expressed with a loop instead of recursion.

) you can see hints of organic, naturalistic behavior emerging from artificial networks.

> but in C-family languages, 'const' modifies type, making objects that benefit from the compiler hints 'const' implies type-incompatible with objects that do not.

Also, even as a front-end guy, I was able to debug fairly complex applications because the compiling errors are so clearly laid out where they are and hints on how to resolve them.

I think there's a fair to middling chance Bezos did some meddling in the editorial process - made a few phone calls, dropped some hints, bent the ears of an editor or two.

Quote examples

The fact that Traktor and Serato get this perfectly right hints that the "consumer" products just don't really care about this problem.

It kind of hints that they use the term "AirBnB" internally as a short-hand way of saying "Our most successful company".

I feel that requiring the `()` to invoke it as a function at least hints that "this does stuff" rather than hiding the implementation in a getter.

Whiteness of teeth and eyes are biological markers of being a good potential mate with [currently] good health and [presumably] strong immune system (evolutionary "hints" of having "good genes"), an analogy of peacock's tail.