Definition of pointing

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Pointing (n.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model..

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Disappointing :: Disappointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disappoin.
Parse :: Parse (n.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically..
Aim :: Aim (v. i.) The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it..
Indigitation :: Indigitation (n.) The act of pointing out as with the finger; indication.
Designative :: Designative (a.) Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
Remonstrance :: Remonstrance (n.) A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration.
Bifarious :: Bifarious (a.) Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows..
Jointer :: Jointer (n.) A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork.
Superior :: Superior (a.) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.
One :: One (a.) Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the..
Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act of sharpening.
Constituent :: Constituent (a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.
Compass :: Compass (n.) An instrument for determining directions upon the earth's surface by means of a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot and pointing in a northerly and southerly direction.
Punctuation :: Punctuation (n.) The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning..
Pointingstock :: Pointingstock (n.) An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock.
Pointing :: Pointing (n.) The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod..
Brick :: Brick (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them..
Magnet :: Magnet (n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet..
Reentrant :: Reentrant (a.) Reentering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re/ntrant angle..
Iridosmium :: Iridosmium (n.) The native compound of iridium and osmium. It is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointing gold pens..
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