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inkling
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Word definitions for inkling in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inkling \In"kling\, n. A hint; an intimation. The least inkling or glimpse of this island. --Bacon. They had some inkling of secret messages. --Clarendon.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen" [syn: intimation , glimmering , glimmer ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A slight suspicion or hint. 2 (context dialect English) inclination, desire. vb. (present participle of inkle English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB give ▪ Legal records are unique in giving us an inkling of how people of the age saw the world about them. ▪ Not one gave them an inkling of the Whitehall collusion.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Inkling is an American company based in San Francisco , California . It produces a set of tools that businesses use to build, manage, and distribute digital content, which includes its cloud-based authoring environment, called Inkling Habitat.
Usage examples of inkling.
But She gave him not the slightest inkling of the difficulties he might face, hinting only that, as with the test of his faithfulness to ahimsa, part of the test would be his ability to discover the true nature of the test and why he was being tested.
Thus, The Shadow received his first inkling of the fact that the others searching for Drock had divided the task.
But, as it had been with electronic circuits for decades after their first practical applications, there was scant theory beneath those diverse feedback inventions, and scarcely an inkling among engineers that one form of feedback had anything to do with another.
I saw that Desarmoises had had an inkling of some plot, but I only laughed.
Yet Cliff, himself, had gained no inkling of what Konk Zitz was planning.
Cardona had suspected that some insidious power might be in back of Koy Shan, but except for the words of the Chinaman who had died upon the lawn, Cardona had gained no inkling to the strange identity of Kwa.
During the brief dialogue, the Signor Grimaldi occasionally looked at the quiet and apparently contrite Maso, and stretched his arm towards the Leman, in a way to give the observers an inkling of his subject.
Marty Lunk, at work in the library, had no inkling of the danger which was coming.
To say sooth, these two may well be adverse to each other, for I would not have thee hear so much of tidings as shall lead thee on, but rather I would have thee return with me, and not throw thy young life away: for indeed I have an inkling of what thou seekest, and meseems that Death and the Devil shall be thy faring-fellows.
God, because she really had no inkling to kiss Lord Pellering as she had kissed Lord Darington.
The first inklings of its construction revealed a round base that would one day rise high above the main building, looking down upon the rest of Koth.
Doc, you got an inkling of something queer here just by reading the newspapers and looking at that Yale seismograph record.
Paulus Thwait had no inkling of the role he would play as a small but influential mote in the current that makes up the River of Time.
Both Digby and I were preoccupied and did not converse much, yet there was a kind of harmony in our silence, and I had felt the faintest inkling of a distaste for Britten Street and a recognition that honourable behaviour does impress one and convince one of its validity.
Lacking suspicion of Bronden, The Shadow had not gained the inkling that he needed.