dica — meaning in English

English meaning

• hint noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
• pointer noun A useful tip or piece of advice.
• tip noun The pointed or outer end of something.

Senses

dica is used for these senses in English:

• tip A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [from mid-19th c.]
• tip off (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.

hint — full definition

1. noun A small clue or suggestion that helps someone understand or guess something.
2. noun A very small trace or amount of something.
3. verb To suggest something indirectly, without saying it outright.

pointer — full definition

1. noun A useful tip or piece of advice.
2. noun A rod or object used to indicate something, such as on a chart or screen.
3. noun A breed of hunting dog trained to signal the location of game by standing still and facing toward it.
4. noun In computing, a variable that stores the memory address of another value.

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