Hint vs. Tint — What's the Difference?

A slight or indirect indication or suggestion

A shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation.

A small piece of practical information or advice

A gradation of a color made by adding white to it to lessen its saturation.

Suggest or indicate something indirectly or covertly

A barely detectable amount or degree; a trace.

A slight indication or intimation

A shaded effect in engraving produced by fine, close, parallel lines.

A brief or indirect suggestion; a tip

(Printing) A panel of light color on which matter in another color is to be printed, as in an illustration.

A statement conveying information in an indirect fashion; a clue

A dye for the hair.

A barely perceptible amount

To give a tint to or take on a tint.

(Archaic) An occasion; an opportunity.

A slight coloring.

To express or state indirectly

A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)

To indicate or make evident in an indirect manner

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.

To give a hint

A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

A clue.

A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.

An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

  To shade, to color.

A small, barely detectable amount.

A slight coloring.

(computing) 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; an instance of hinting.

A pale or faint tinge of any color.

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

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

(obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.

A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.

(intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.

To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

(transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;

(transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

Dye with a color

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

To make an indirect reference, suggestion, or allusion; to allude vaguely to something.

A remote allusion; slight mention; intimation; insinuation; a suggestion or reminder, without a full declaration or explanation; also, an occasion or motive.

An indirect suggestion;

A slight indication

A slight but appreciable addition;

A just detectable amount;

An indication of potential opportunity;

Drop a hint; intimate by a hint