See pointing on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bone pointing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "definition by pointing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Earth-pointing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "finger-pointing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pointing device"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pointing mark"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pointing stick"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pointing-stock"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "pointing-trowel"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "point-to-pointing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "Sun-pointing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "tuck pointing"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "vowel pointing"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "point",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "point + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From point + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pointings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "pointing (countable and uncountable, plural pointings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"point‧ing"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
56
]
],
"ref": "1939, Coleman Roberts Griffith, Psychology Applied to Teaching and Learning:",
"text": "For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The action of the verb to point."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-fEVI9oBK",
"links": [
[
"point",
"point"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "97 0 0 1 3 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "action of the verb to point",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Zeigen"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 0 0 1 3 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "action of the verb to point",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Hinweisen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 23 4 9 16 6 25 12 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Masonry",
"orig": "en:Masonry",
"parents": [
"Construction",
"Architecture",
"Engineering",
"Applied sciences",
"Art",
"Technology",
"Sciences",
"Culture",
"All topics",
"Society",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
152,
160
]
],
"ref": "2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Southeastern Commercial Restoration Award: Appledore”, in RAIL, number 946, pages 56–57:",
"text": "The necessary works were extensive and included replacing missing and damaged slates and other roof repairs (in order to make the building watertight), pointing and drainpipe replacement, and extensive replacement of rotten floorboarding.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-~VCuvuAJ",
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 59 13 4 6 7 9 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "filling of gaps in brickwork or masonry with mortar",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Verfugen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 59 13 4 6 7 9 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "filling of gaps in brickwork or masonry with mortar",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ausfugen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-Hs~~qDP3",
"links": [
[
"Mortar",
"mortar"
],
[
"brick",
"brick"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap."
],
"tags": [
"collective",
"countable",
"proscribed",
"singular",
"sometimes",
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 8 64 4 8 2 10 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mortar that has been placed between bricks or stones to fill the gaps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fugenmörtel"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 64 4 8 2 10 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mortar that has been placed between bricks or stones to fill the gaps",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fugenmasse"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 3 6 10 21 3 28 25 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act or art of punctuating; punctuation."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-u9WiJTmd",
"links": [
[
"punctuation",
"punctuation"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 3 6 10 21 3 28 25 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 23 4 9 16 6 25 12 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Masonry",
"orig": "en:Masonry",
"parents": [
"Construction",
"Architecture",
"Engineering",
"Applied sciences",
"Art",
"Technology",
"Sciences",
"Culture",
"All topics",
"Society",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-uE8YI3Km",
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Art",
"orig": "en:Art",
"parents": [
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-kk9dOb~e",
"links": [
[
"art",
"art#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"art",
"arts"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Anglicanism",
"orig": "en:Anglicanism",
"parents": [
"Protestantism",
"Christianity",
"Abrahamism",
"Religion",
"Culture",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Music",
"orig": "en:Music",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Sound",
"Culture",
"Energy",
"Society",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "0 2 8 11 24 2 35 16 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 4 8 11 22 6 28 15 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 3 6 10 21 3 28 25 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 2 4 13 26 2 42 8 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 1 8 12 25 1 37 14 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 4 8 10 19 4 29 22 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 23 4 9 16 6 25 12 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Masonry",
"orig": "en:Masonry",
"parents": [
"Construction",
"Architecture",
"Engineering",
"Applied sciences",
"Art",
"Technology",
"Sciences",
"Culture",
"All topics",
"Society",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
6,
15
]
],
"text": "Psalm pointings sometimes differ between psalters.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In Anglican chant, the placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-9bvuV5FL",
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"Anglicanism",
"Anglicanism"
],
[
"Anglican chant",
"Anglican chant"
],
[
"mark",
"mark"
],
[
"text",
"text"
],
[
"syllable",
"syllable"
],
[
"note",
"note"
]
],
"qualifier": "Anglicanism",
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable, music, Anglicanism) In Anglican chant, the placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 3 6 10 21 3 28 25 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 23 4 9 16 6 25 12 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Masonry",
"orig": "en:Masonry",
"parents": [
"Construction",
"Architecture",
"Engineering",
"Applied sciences",
"Art",
"Technology",
"Sciences",
"Culture",
"All topics",
"Society",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
207,
215
]
],
"ref": "2015, Alexander Beider, Origins of Yiddish Dialects, Oxford University Press, page 245, note 45:",
"text": "In this chapter, for any word from the Hebrew component of Yiddish, the spelling of the corresponding Hebrew etymon is given, with the diacritical signs corresponding to its vowels according to the Tiberian pointing.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of nikud."
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-noun-9wudPHNz",
"links": [
[
"nikud",
"nikud#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "nikud"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pointing.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg/En-us-pointing.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪntɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "pointing"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "point",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "point + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From point + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "pointing",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"point‧ing"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "point"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of point"
],
"id": "en-pointing-en-verb-uyoepAnL",
"links": [
[
"point",
"point#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "present participle of point",
"word": "zeigend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "present participle of point",
"word": "hinweisend"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pointing.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg/En-us-pointing.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪntɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "pointing"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɔɪntɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/ɔɪntɪŋ/2 syllables",
"Terms with German translations",
"en:Masonry"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "bone pointing"
},
{
"word": "definition by pointing"
},
{
"word": "Earth-pointing"
},
{
"word": "finger-pointing"
},
{
"word": "pointing device"
},
{
"word": "pointing mark"
},
{
"word": "pointing stick"
},
{
"word": "pointing-stock"
},
{
"word": "pointing-trowel"
},
{
"word": "point-to-pointing"
},
{
"word": "Sun-pointing"
},
{
"word": "tuck pointing"
},
{
"word": "vowel pointing"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "point",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "point + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From point + -ing.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "pointings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "pointing (countable and uncountable, plural pointings)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"point‧ing"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
56
]
],
"ref": "1939, Coleman Roberts Griffith, Psychology Applied to Teaching and Learning:",
"text": "For the sake of convenience, we may call these pointings or signifyings the secondary phase of meaning.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The action of the verb to point."
],
"links": [
[
"point",
"point"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
152,
160
]
],
"ref": "2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Southeastern Commercial Restoration Award: Appledore”, in RAIL, number 946, pages 56–57:",
"text": "The necessary works were extensive and included replacing missing and damaged slates and other roof repairs (in order to make the building watertight), pointing and drainpipe replacement, and extensive replacement of rotten floorboarding.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English proscribed terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap."
],
"links": [
[
"Mortar",
"mortar"
],
[
"brick",
"brick"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap."
],
"tags": [
"collective",
"countable",
"proscribed",
"singular",
"sometimes",
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The act or art of punctuating; punctuation."
],
"links": [
[
"punctuation",
"punctuation"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Art"
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"art",
"art#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(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."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"art",
"arts"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Anglicanism",
"en:Music"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
6,
15
]
],
"text": "Psalm pointings sometimes differ between psalters.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In Anglican chant, the placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note."
],
"links": [
[
"music",
"music"
],
[
"Anglicanism",
"Anglicanism"
],
[
"Anglican chant",
"Anglican chant"
],
[
"mark",
"mark"
],
[
"text",
"text"
],
[
"syllable",
"syllable"
],
[
"note",
"note"
]
],
"qualifier": "Anglicanism",
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable, music, Anglicanism) In Anglican chant, the placement of marks in the text to indicate the syllables on which the chant should progress to the next note."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
207,
215
]
],
"ref": "2015, Alexander Beider, Origins of Yiddish Dialects, Oxford University Press, page 245, note 45:",
"text": "In this chapter, for any word from the Hebrew component of Yiddish, the spelling of the corresponding Hebrew etymon is given, with the diacritical signs corresponding to its vowels according to the Tiberian pointing.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of nikud."
],
"links": [
[
"nikud",
"nikud#English"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "nikud"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pointing.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg/En-us-pointing.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪntɪŋ"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "action of the verb to point",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Zeigen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "action of the verb to point",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Hinweisen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "filling of gaps in brickwork or masonry with mortar",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Verfugen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "filling of gaps in brickwork or masonry with mortar",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ausfugen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mortar that has been placed between bricks or stones to fill the gaps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fugenmörtel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mortar that has been placed between bricks or stones to fill the gaps",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fugenmasse"
}
],
"word": "pointing"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ing",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verb forms",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɔɪntɪŋ",
"Rhymes:English/ɔɪntɪŋ/2 syllables",
"Terms with German translations",
"en:Masonry"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "point",
"3": "ing"
},
"expansion": "point + -ing",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From point + -ing.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "pointing",
"name": "head"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"point‧ing"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "point"
}
],
"glosses": [
"present participle and gerund of point"
],
"links": [
[
"point",
"point#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"gerund",
"participle",
"present"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɔɪntɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-pointing.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg/En-us-pointing.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/En-us-pointing.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔɪntɪŋ"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "present participle of point",
"word": "zeigend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "present participle of point",
"word": "hinweisend"
}
],
"word": "pointing"
}
Download raw JSONL data for pointing meaning in All languages combined (7.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (4eaa824 and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.