How to pronounce “pointing”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The action of the verb to point.
• The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
• (usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.
• The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
• The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
• (art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
• (music, Anglicanism) In Anglican chant:
• Synonym of nikud.
• [Verb]
• present participle and gerund of point

Practice Nearby Words

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