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I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.
Birch Bayh

Meaning of "point out" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POINT OUT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POINT OUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Point out is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES POINT OUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Point out

Point out means to show someone who a person is or where something is. Point out also means to tell someone something that they need to know. It is used in the names of...

Definition of point out in the English dictionary

The definition of point out in the dictionary is to indicate or specify.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POINT OUT

point defect
point duty
point estimate
point group
point guard
point lace
point man
point of honour
point of inflection
point of no return
point of order
point of reference
point of sale
point of view
point off
point source
point system
point the bone
point the finger at
point up

WORDS THAT END LIKE POINT OUT

act out
check out
contract out
cut out
eat out
flat out
get out
hit out
left out
let out
night out
opt out
print out
push the boat out
put out
set out
shoot out
sit out
sort out
start out
sweat out

Synonyms and antonyms of point out in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «point out» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POINT OUT

Find out the translation of point out to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of point out from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «point out» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

指出
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

señalar
570 millions of speakers

English

point out
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाहर बात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يُوَضِّحُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

указывать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indicar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খুঁজে বের করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faire remarquer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

menunjukkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hinweisen auf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

指摘する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가리키다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Point metu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chỉ ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுட்டி காட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दाखविणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

işaret etmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

evidenziare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zwrócić czyjąś uwagę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вказувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a preciza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποδεικνύω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wys
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

peka ut
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

påpeke
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POINT OUT»

The term «point out» is very widely used and occupies the 15.362 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POINT OUT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about point out

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10 QUOTES WITH «POINT OUT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word point out.
1
Jane Alexander
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
2
Keren Ann
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
3
Edward Bach
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
4
Joe Barton
I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
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Birch Bayh
I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.
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Gerry Beckley
The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.
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Greg Behrendt
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.
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Octavia Butler
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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Jenson Button
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.
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Jenson Button
If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POINT OUT»

Discover the use of point out in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to point out and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Experiments and observations made with a view to point out ...
and which tend in their progress to establish a new system, on principles more conformable to the simple operations of nature John Lyon. ✓^7 3/ Experiments and Observations Made with a View to point out the Errors of THE PRESENT ...
John Lyon, 1780
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The Standard of Catholicity, Or, An Attempt to Point Out in ...
George Eduard Biber. with true godliness, nothing else is to be looked for, but that " evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."' High time it is, indeed, that the watchmen upon the walls of Zion should ...
George Eduard Biber, 1840
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Notes, chiefly intended to point out the correspondence ...
Notes. Blest, who, their strength on thee reclin'd, Thy seat explore with constant mind, And, Salem's distant tow'rs in view, With active zeal their way pursue : Secure the thirsty vale they tread, While call'd from out their sandy bed, (As down in ...
Notes, 1834
4
Cirque Du Freak (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 1)
The chilling Saga of Darren Shan, the ordinary schoolboy plunged into the vampire world.
Darren Shan, 2011
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Early Buddhist Discourses
manifestation of contact, in that situation one could point out a manifestation of feeling. When there is a manifestation of feeling, in that situation one could point out a manifestation of perception. When there is a manifestation of perception, ...
John J. Holder, 2006
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Maria Sewcz: point out
Maria Sewcz's photographs are subjective registrations of urban, social, and cultural reality.
Maria Sewcz, Barbara Straka, Annett Gröschner, 2004
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Fixed Point Theory and Its Applications: Proceedings of a ...
The purpose of Leray's talk was to point out how effective topological methods had become in establishing the existence of solutions to nonlinear differential equations by expressing the solution as a fixed point of a selfmap of an appropriately ...
Robert F. Brown, 1988
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Linear perspective explained
Point out the qourse pursued in determining the perspective of the building, referring to Fig. 25, giving the reasons for every step in the process. 60. State Prob. 8. Explain the plan of the building in Fig. 26. Is the point of distance represented in ...
William Nelson Bartholomew, 1859
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The Turning Point: When a Pleaser of Man Becomes a Servant ...
Cftofter. 16. Free. to. Be. a. 'Go&. Pleaser. This chapter is one of my favorite chapters in the book. I get to discuss the good that comes to those who put their trust in GOD and point out what happens to those who decide to put their hands ...
Katina S. Acker, 2009
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Abridged History of the United States: Or Republic of America
Point out the place of this date. Raleigh sent out a squadron of seven ships under Sir Richard Grenville, in 15S5. Point out this date on the chronographer. Both these attempts to colonize the country were unsuccessful, and Raleigh again sent ...
Emma Willard, 1852

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POINT OUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term point out is used in the context of the following news items.
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Billy Joel Is Alive—And That's the Sticking Point Over Whether to …
Long Island Republicans point out that Mr. Joel has kept Long Island in his heart, despite his international fame. The singer, 66, keeps two ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
Compulsory schooling research could point to success of mandatory …
In their book “The Race between Education and Technology,” economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz point out that education in the ... «KU Today, Jul 15»
3
Report: Giants' TE Larry Donnell out of boot, ready for training camp
However, Raanan is quick to point out that this doesn't necessarily mean Donnell is out of the woods just yet. "I'm still somewhat concerned ... «Big Blue View, Jul 15»
4
AI will make a global arms race 'virtually inevitable': Stephen …
... virtually inevitable,' it states. The experts point out that, unlike nuclear weapons, AI weapons require no costly or hard-to-obtain raw materials. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
5
Rest on Sunday helps us all, not just Christians
CAN I point out to Harry Stephenson (Write Back, July 21) that Christians are not the only ones opposed to further relaxation of Sunday trading ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
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Pro-Santorum Super Pac releases GOP campaign's first negative …
“And on Common Core, we simply point out what is known to be true: Mike Huckabee supported Common Core before the political winds ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
Doobie Brothers Sue Venture Capitalist's '70s Cover Band The …
The plaintiffs say the cover band's name is "highly phonetically and visually similar" to theirs and point out that they present the word "Doobie" ... «Billboard, Jul 15»
8
Why this Chinese stock plunge could be different
China stocks tanked more than 8 percent on Monday, and many analysts have been quick to point out how Chinese consumers are unlikely to ... «CNBC, Jul 15»
9
Climate change skeptics may be about to lose one of their favorite …
Ice floating atop the seas around Antarctica, they point out, is growing — and that's not what you would expect from global warming, right? «Washington Post, Jul 15»
10
Disability Rights Advocates Call Out Uber Over Accessibility Issues
Jones went on to point out the progress the city's disability rights advocates have made toward their goal of making half the city's yellow taxi ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

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