- present participle of point.
pointing
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pointings
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the act or process of repairing or finishing joints in brickwork, masonry, etc, with mortar
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the insertion of marks to indicate the chanting of a psalm or the vowels in a Hebrew text
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the sequence of marks so inserted
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State-owned Changan Automobile 000625 -0.99%decrease; red down pointing triangle , China’s fourth-largest automaker, is following their lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Steris STE 1.48%increase; green up pointing triangle signed an agreement to acquire specialty-surgical-products business Xodus Medical for $2.1 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Just imagine if I was just on that side,” he said, pointing east.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
"I think on mainstream TV, but then it's just been replaced," he replied, pointing out that similar content has since appeared on social media.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“Aha,” said C.C. pointing to the page beneath her.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life."
From Time Magazine Archive
At least we were leaving the pointings and the sneers and the half-suppressed titters….
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
He amplified this with unmistakable pointings at his mouth and suggestive rubbing of his stomach, and Towahg started off at a run toward trees that were heavy with strange fruit.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin
They were most unpleasantly inquisitive, and by their stares, jabber, and pointings, incessantly wanting me to show them everything that I possessed, with explanations about their various uses, quite tired out my patience.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
What they meant, I knew not at first; but by their gestures and pointings I found at last it was to beg the young queen's life, and that I would not kill her.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
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