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Definition of Pointing

1. n. The act of sharpening.

Definition of Pointing

1. Verb. (present participle of point) ¹

2. Noun. (context: usually singular or collective) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to hold them together. This is not strictly speaking correct word to use in this context, mortar would be the correct word, or joint filling. (or perhaps applies in the US only) This term is often misused as meaning mortar or joint filling, as 'repointing' is the action of making good and repairing of joints between stone. ¹

3. Noun. The action of the verb '''to point'''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pointing

1. point [v] - See also: point

Medical Definition of Pointing

1. Preparing to open spontaneously, said of an abscess or a boil. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pointing

Literary usage of Pointing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Bastard pointing ; Bastard Tuck pointing. Similar to, but more simple than, Tuck pointing ... The mortar joint is sometimes coloured as in Tuck pointing. ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"pointing TESTS OF BARANY Graefe first found that in ocular paresis when a patient attempted to point to a cross on a black board with his eyes closed, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"pointing TESTS OF BARANY Graefe first found that in ocular paresis when a patient attempted to point to a cross on a black board with his eyes closed, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"SYMPTOMS pointing TO THE NECESSITY FOR OPERATIVE INTERFERENCE IN MASTOID SUPPURATION.1 BY WENI>ELL C. PHILLIPS, MD, PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF Till BAR, ..."

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