The difference between Hint and Taste

When used as nouns, hint means a clue, whereas taste means one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

When used as verbs, hint means to suggest tacitly without a direct statement, whereas taste means to sample the flavor of something orally.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hint and Taste

  1. Hint as a noun:

    A clue.

    Examples:

    "I needed a hint to complete the crossword."

  2. Hint as a noun:

    A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

    Examples:

    "He gave me a hint that my breath smelt."

  3. Hint as a noun:

    A small, barely detectable amount of.

    Examples:

    "There was a hint of irony in his voice."

    "I could taste a hint of lemon in the wine."

  4. Hint as a 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. Also known as hinting.

    Examples:

    "This font does not scale well; at small point sizes it has no hinting at all, and the hints that it has for the 10- and 12-point letter 'g' still need work."

  5. Hint as a noun (obsolete):

    An opportunity; occasion; fit time.

  1. Hint as a verb (intransitive):

    To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.

    Examples:

    "She hinted at the possibility of a recount of the votes''."

  2. Hint as a verb (transitive):

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

    Examples:

    "to hint a suspicion"

  3. Hint as a verb (transitive):

    To develop and add hints to a font.

    Examples:

    "The typographer worked all day on hinting her new font so it would look good on computer screens''."

  1. Taste as a noun:

    One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals.

  2. Taste as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

    A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.

    Examples:

    "Dr. Parker has good taste in wine."

  3. Taste as a noun:

    Personal preference; liking; predilection.

    Examples:

    "I have developed a taste for fine wine."

  4. Taste as a noun (uncountable, figuratively):

    A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.

  5. Taste as a noun:

    A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.

  1. Taste as a verb (transitive):

    To sample the flavor of something orally.

  2. Taste as a verb (intransitive):

    To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.

    Examples:

    "The chicken tasted great, but the milk tasted like garlic."

  3. Taste as a verb:

    To experience.

    Examples:

    "I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise."

    "They had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."

  4. Taste as a verb:

    To take sparingly.

  5. Taste as a verb:

    To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.

  6. Taste as a verb (obsolete):

    To try by the touch; to handle.

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