Pointer
['pɒɪntə] or ['pɔɪntɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game.
(noun.) an indicator as on a dial.
Editor: Mary--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, points.
(n.) The hand of a timepiece.
(n.) One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.
(n.) The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.
(n.) Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.
Editor: Paula
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Index, hand, director.
Edited by Craig
Examples
- Every variation in the speaker's voice is repeated in the vibrations of the metal disk and hence in the minute motion of the pointer and in the consequent record on the cylinder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The pointer on the spring balance shows that the force required to balance the 4-pound load is but 2 pounds. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The pointer uses both hands in elevating and depressing the gun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Usually a delicate pointer is attached to the movable coil and rotates freely with it, so that the swing of the pointer indicates the relative values of the current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This number is written opposite the place at which the pointer stood during the experiment. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But Marianne could no more satisfy him as to the colour of Mr. Willoughby's pointer, than he could describe to her the shades of his mind. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- St. Clare took the same kind of amusement in the child that a man might in the tricks of a parrot or a pointer. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Plato, it is said, contrived a bell so connected with the pointer that it was struck at each hour of the night. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But he is a pleasant, good humoured fellow, and has got the nicest little black bitch of a pointer I ever saw. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The action of the pointer in reporting the vibrations of a diaphragm is easily understood by reference to a tuning fork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The scale may be completed by marking the positions of the pointer when other currents of known strength flow through the ammeter. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He's a free, pleasant gentleman as ever lived--rides to the hounds, keeps his pointers and all that. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A series of 25,000 shots were fired thus, by eight gun pointers, at targets corresponding to the size of a battleship as seen at ranges of 1,500, 3,000, 6,000 and 9,000 yards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Sam often flogs his pointers cruelly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was Ph?be, one of Mr. Sam Wynne's pointers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Daniel