Usually means: Suggestions or clues aiding understanding.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word hints:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. hints: Merriam-Webster
  2. hints: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hints: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hints, hints: Wordnik
  5. hints: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hints: Wiktionary
  7. hints: Dictionary.com
  8. hints: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. hints: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hints: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hints: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HINTS: Acronym Finder
  2. hints: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hint)

noun:  A clue.
noun:  An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
noun:  A small, barely detectable amount.
noun:  (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.
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.
noun:  (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
verb:  (intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
verb:  (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
verb:  (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.
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