(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.
(databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
(obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
A clue.
A small, barely detectable amount.
An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
verb
(intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
(transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
(transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.
thin
thin
adj
(aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.
(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
Poor; scanty; without money or success.
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
adv
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
noun
(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
verb
(intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
(transitive) To make thin or thinner.
To dilute.
To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
