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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given., A vague idea about something.

   “[T]he present recalled the past, robed in the memories of its thousand dark and damning deeds of ignorance and superstition, and gave inklings of a brighter and better future; [...]”

2. isim Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion.

   “If that a Pearl may in a Toads-head dwell, / And may be found too in an Oiſter-ſhell; / If things that promiſe nothing, do contain / What better is then Gold; who will diſdain / (That have an inkling of it,) there to look, / That they may find it?”

3. isim A desire, an inclination.

   “In the Baathist government in Iraq generally, and Saddam Hussein's regime in particular, the nation-state's inkling towards fascist formation became manifest, undaunted by the necessities of political compromise or niceties of liberal temperance.”

4. fiil present participle and gerund of inkle