English Online Dictionary. What means pointing? What does pointing mean?
English
Etymology
From point + -ing.
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɔɪntɪŋ
- Hyphenation: point‧ing
Noun
pointing (countable and uncountable, plural pointings)
- The action of the verb to point.
- The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
- (usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.
- The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
- The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
- (art) 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.
- (countable, music, Anglicanism) In Anglican chant, the placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note.
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Verb
pointing
- present participle and gerund of point
Translations
References
- “pointing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “pointing”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “pointing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- opting in, pitoning