"repoint" meaning in English

See repoint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: repoints [present, singular, third-person], repointing [participle, present], repointed [participle, past], repointed [past]
Etymology: re- + point Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|point}} re- + point Head templates: {{en-verb}} repoint (third-person singular simple present repoints, present participle repointing, simple past and past participle repointed)
  1. (masonry) To replace or repair the pointing in brickwork. Categories (topical): Masonry

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for repoint meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "point"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + point",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "re- + point",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "repoints",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "repointing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "repointed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "repointed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "repoint (third-person singular simple present repoints, present participle repointing, simple past and past participle repointed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with re-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To replace or repair the pointing in brickwork."
      ],
      "id": "en-repoint-en-verb-XzkWK2AU",
      "links": [
        [
          "masonry",
          "masonry"
        ],
        [
          "pointing",
          "pointing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(masonry) To replace or repair the pointing in brickwork."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "construction",
        "manufacturing",
        "masonry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "repoint"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "re",
        "3": "point"
      },
      "expansion": "re- + point",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "re- + point",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "repoints",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "repointing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "repointed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "repointed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "repoint (third-person singular simple present repoints, present participle repointing, simple past and past participle repointed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with re-",
        "English verbs",
        "en:Masonry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To replace or repair the pointing in brickwork."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "masonry",
          "masonry"
        ],
        [
          "pointing",
          "pointing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(masonry) To replace or repair the pointing in brickwork."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "construction",
        "manufacturing",
        "masonry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "repoint"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.