How to pronounce “pointed”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• simple past and past participle of point
• [Adjective]
• (comparable) Sharp, barbed; not dull.
• (in combination) Having a certain amount of points.
• (comparable) Having a relevance to the matter at hand: pertinent, relevant.
• (not comparable) In animals, having a coat pattern with points, that is, darkening of the extremities.
• (comparable, of a comment or inference) Directed negatively at a person or topic.
• (topology, algebraic topology, of a topological space) That has a named, but otherwise arbitrary, point (called the basepoint) that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion and is kept track of during all operations.
• (dated, of a time) precise, on the dot.

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