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We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
Leon Askin

Meaning of "pointing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POINTING

pointing  [ˈpɔɪntɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POINTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pointing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POINTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pointing

Pointing may refer to: ▪ Pointing, the hand gesture ▪ Pointing, the external part of the mortar between bricks in walling ▪ Pointing, the characteristic stance of pointing breeds of dogs used for hunting ▪ The position accuracy of the optical axis of a directional antenna ▪ The process of adding vowel points to an abjad consonantal alphabet, called niqqud in Hebrew and harakat in Arabic ▪ The process of distinguishing consonants with points, called dagesh in Hebrew and i'jam in Arabic...

Definition of pointing in the English dictionary

The first definition of pointing in the dictionary is the act or process of repairing or finishing joints in brickwork, masonry, etc, with mortar. Other definition of pointing is the insertion of marks to indicate the chanting of a psalm or the vowels in a Hebrew text. Pointing is also the sequence of marks so inserted.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POINTING


accounting
əˈkaʊntɪŋ
anointing
əˈnɔɪntɪŋ
counting
ˈkaʊntɪŋ
disappointing
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ
hinting
ˈhɪntɪŋ
hunting
ˈhʌntɪŋ
imprinting
ɪmˈprɪntɪŋ
linting
ˈlɪntɪŋ
malimprinting
ˌmælɪmˈprɪntɪŋ
mounting
ˈmaʊntɪŋ
painting
ˈpeɪntɪŋ
parenting
ˈpɛərəntɪŋ
planting
ˈplɑːntɪŋ
printing
ˈprɪntɪŋ
repointing
ˌriːˈpɔɪntɪŋ
underpainting
ˈʌndəˌpeɪntɪŋ
undisappointing
ˌʌnˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪŋ
unstinting
ʌnˈstɪntɪŋ
untainting
ʌnˈteɪntɪŋ
wanting
ˈwɒntɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POINTING

pointed
pointed arch
pointel
pointelle
pointer
Pointers
pointille
pointillism
pointillisme
pointillist
pointilliste
pointillistic
pointless
points
points dappui
points system
pointsman
pointy
pointy-head

WORDS THAT END LIKE POINTING

acting
banting
bunting
business accounting
business-accounting
chanting
consenting
daunting
dissenting
face painting
financial accounting
haunting
house-hunting
not counting
offset printing
oil painting
panting
ranting
screen printing
unrelenting
venting

Synonyms and antonyms of pointing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «POINTING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pointing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pointing
aim · apex · area · aspect · attribute · barb · bill · burden · cape · characteristic · circumstance · condition · core · crux · degree · design · detail · direct · dot · drift · edge · end · essence · extent · face · facet · feature · fleck · foreland · full stop · gist · goal · head · headland · heart · import · instance · instant · intent · intention · item · juncture · level · locale · locality · location · look · mark · marrow · matter · meaning · moment · motive · ness · nib · nicety · nub · object · objective · particular · peculiarity · period · phase · pinpoint · pitch · pith · place · position · promontory · prong · property · proposition · purpose · quality · question · reason · respect · score · sharpen · side · site · speck · spike · spot · spur · stage · station · stop · subject · tally · taper · text · theme · thrust · time · tine · tip · top · topic · train · trait · use · usefulness · utility · whet

Translation of «pointing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POINTING

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

Translator English - Chinese

指点
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apuntando
570 millions of speakers

English

pointing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इशारा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لافتا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

указывая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

apontador
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইশারা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pointage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menunjuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zeige
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

指示
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포인팅
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngarahake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự chấm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுட்டும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दिशेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gösterme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

puntamento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wskazując
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вказуючи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

arătând
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατάδειξης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wys
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pekande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

peker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pointing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTING»

The term «pointing» is very widely used and occupies the 11.445 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POINTING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pointing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pointing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «POINTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pointing.
1
Willie Aames
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
2
Leon Askin
We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
3
Robert Barany
Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.
4
Robert Barany
As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.
5
Todd Barry
I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.
6
Kathleen Blanco
My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.
7
Jo Bonner
There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.
8
Thomas Edward Brown
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.
9
Lauren Bush
I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.
10
George Carey
And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that's why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POINTING»

Discover the use of pointing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pointing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing: A ...
An introduction to the computational biology of reaching and pointing, with an emphasis on motor learning.
Reza Shadmehr, Steven P. Wise, 2005
2
Rich Mullins: A Devotional Biography - An Arrow Pointing to ...
A devotional biography giving insight to the life of musician Rich Mullins ("Awesome God"), featuring his never before published spiritual writings.
James Bryan Smith, 2002
3
Training Your Pointing Dog for Hunting and Home
The book presents a simplified, commonsense approach that can be used in its entirety or to troubleshoot individual aspects of your dog's education.
Richard D. Weaver, 2007
4
Pointing Out the Dharmakaya
"An invaluable guide for Mahamudra practitioners on how to look at the mind, it is clearly laid out so that the instructions are easy to recall and put to use.
Thrangu Rinpoche, 2003
5
Exercises in lip pointing
Exercises in Lip Pointing is a new collection of poems by respected First Nations writer Annharte.
Marie Annharte Baker, 2003
6
Gun-Dog Training Pointing Dogs
Discusses the selection and housing of a hunting dog and supplies practical guidance on training a dog for hunting Professional trainer Kenneth Roebuck devotes an entire book exclusively to the pointing dogs because he can share form a ...
Kenneth C. Roebuck, 1983
7
The Signifier Pointing at the Moon: Psychoanalysis and Zen ...
Instead, by making a purposeful "one mistake" of "unknown knowing", this book remains consistent with the analytic unconscious and continues in the splendid tradition of Bodhidharma who did not know "Who" he was and told Emperor Wu that ...
Raul Moncayo, 2012
8
The ergonomics of computer pointing devices
This book provides an in-depth coverage of the ergonomics of computer pointing devices.
Sarah Ann Douglas, Anant Kartik Mithal, 1997
9
Pointing at the Moon Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy
This volume collects essays by philosophers and scholars working at the interface of Western philosophy and Buddhist Studies.
Jay L. Garfield, Tom J.F. Tillemans, Mario D'Amato, 2009
10
Finger Pointing To The Moon
These seventeen talks that Osho delivered at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, make this book a truly enriching guide for those seeking to look within and find answers to the enigmas of human existence.
Osho, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POINTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pointing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
High Point man arrested after pointing gun at contractor
A High Point man was arrested Friday for assault by pointing a gun at a contractor working at his house, the Davidson County Sheriff's Office ... «Winston-Salem Journal, Jul 15»
2
Gosselin: With arrow pointing up, Stars figure to be playoff team this …
Dallas Stars center Tyler Seguin (91) celebrates his goal against Winnipeg Jets goalie Michael Hutchinson (34) with teammates Jamie Benn ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
3
Convicted felon arrested after pointing gun at victim in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee police arrested a convicted felon after he pointed a shotgun at a victim on the city's west side early on Sunday, July ... «fox6now.com, Jul 15»
4
Suffield man accused of pointing gun at wife, crashing vehicle on …
A woman running down the road screaming for help lead to the arrest of a man in Suffield over the weekend. «WFSB, Jul 15»
5
Pointing way to Hitler's Holocaust
This 1944 photo provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) shows the first page of a photo album of approximately 116 rare ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
Delay in finishing new labs at UW prompts finger-pointing
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Completion of a University of Wyoming facility with nearly three dozen labs for computer science, organic chemistry ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
7
Marrero man arrested, accused of pointing rifle at cab driver
Daniel Burlett, 45, of Marrero, was arrested and booked with aggravated assault, arrest reports said. He is accused of pointing a rifle at a cab ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
8
High Point Man Charged For Pointing Gun At Contractor
No one was hurt. Authorities charged Cain with Assault by Pointing a Gun. He was put in the Davidson County Jail under a $500 secured bond. «WFMY News 2, Jul 15»
9
Dinuba police seek man accused of pointing gun at officer
Dinuba police are searching for a man accused of pointing a gun toward an officer. The suspect has been identified as 26-year-old Richard ... «ABC30.com, Jul 15»
10
Khamenei tweets pic of Obama pointing a gun to his head
Khamenei tweets pic of Obama pointing a gun to his head. By Rick Moran. If Obama was expecting an invitation to visit Iran, it probably won't ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»

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