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Pointer

noun

A mark to indicate a direction or relation. Synonym: arrow.

An indicator as on a dial.

(computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions. Synonym: cursor.

A strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game. Synonym: Spanish pointer.

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"Pointer" Quotes from Famous Books

... God and your father. But I wish to tell you that school books are but a trivial matter. You need these as a carpenter needs an adze and a pointer. They are tools, but the tools cannot teach you how to make use of them. Understand? Let us see: Suppose an adze were handed to a carpenter for him to square a beam with it. It's not enough to have hands and an adze; it is also necessary for him to know how to strike the wood so ...

— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky

... like a pointer on scent, all his faculties united in attention toward the girl. To Rainey he seemed attempting to visualize her by sheer sense of hearing, by perceptions quickened in the blind. The doctor crossed to the girl and spoke to her ...

— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn

... engineer!" said Miriam, with an intonation worthy of the daughter of a West-Pointer and the descendant ...

— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne

... the strength of the kite once by hooking a spring scale to the kite string. The scale was made to register weights up to 25 pounds. But our kite yanked the pointer immediately past the 25-pound mark as far as it would go. We judged from this that the kite would lift at least 40 pounds. Such a pull as this it seemed a pity to waste, but how to utilize the power was a problem until one day, when the kite was soaring up on a south wind, Dutchy suggested ...

— The Scientific American Boy - The Camp at Willow Clump Island • A. Russell Bond

... a general burst of joy. 'There's John! and there's old Carlo! and there's Bantam!' cried the happy little rogues, clapping their hands. At the end of a lane there was an old, sober-looking servant in livery waiting for them; he was accompanied by a superannuated pointer, and by the redoubtable Bantam, a little old rat of a pony, with a shaggy mane and long, rusty tail, who stood dozing quietly by the roadside, little dreaming of the bustling times that awaited him. Off they set at ...

— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 • Various

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