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pointing
[ poin-ting ]
noun
- (in masonry) mortar used as a finishing touch to brickwork.
pointing
/ ˈpɔɪntɪŋ /
noun
- the act or process of repairing or finishing joints in brickwork, masonry, etc, with mortar
- the insertion of marks to indicate the chanting of a psalm or the vowels in a Hebrew text
- the sequence of marks so inserted
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- un·pointing adjective
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Example Sentences
But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an ISIS connection.
Maybe he was just pointing out that many police feel that way.
Others agree, pointing out that the 2014 is not as dark a year as it may seem.
Some 20 people are there when I visit, including a father with his young son, pointing to photographs of movie stars on the walls.
“That was his idea,” says Banks, pointing across the room to Kwatinetz.
Right over the stone marker, a long-shafted war-lance was carved—the blade pointing down.
Indeed this first drawing is largely a pointing out or noting down of features without any serious effort to draw them.
Over this spot he twisted all the remaining hair into a coil about four inches long, pointing slightly forward like a horn.
Fagin nodded in the affirmative, and pointing in the direction of Saffron Hill, inquired whether any one was up yonder to-night.
"Take those men to the guardhouse," he ordered curtly, pointing an accusing finger at Hicks and Bevans.
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