From en.wiktionary.org:
[Pointer]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en] or [en] ([en]).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Anything that point s or is used for pointing.
1. One who point s.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow .
7. [en] A needlelike component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.
8. [en] [en] A breed of hunting dog , trained to point out game .
9. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2007 | author=American Kennel Club | title=The Complete Dog Book | publisher=Ballantine Books | isbn=9780307416995 | page= [NqXaduT6Ak0C]
|passage=Most of the early wirehaired POINTERS represented a combination of
Griffon, Stichelhaar, Pudelpointer, and German Shorthair. The Pudelpointer
was a cross between a Poodle dog and an English POINTER bitch; the Griffon and
the Stichelhaar were composed of POINTER, Foxhound, Pudelpointer, and a Polish
water dog.}}
1. [en] A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.
2. * [en]
3. [en] [en] An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device , such as a mouse .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1995 | author=Aaron Marcus; Nick Smilonich; Lynne Thompson | title=The Cross-GUI Handbook | publisher=Addison-Wesley | isbn=9780201575927 | page=231
|passage=The system notifies the user of the progress of a task by changing
the appearance of the POINTER. System-busy POINTERS usually adopt a timepiece
metaphor.}}
1. [en] A tip , a bit of advice .
2. * [en]
3. Something that gives a point [sharp end] to something.
4. [en] [en] Something worth a given number of points.
5. * {{ quote-web | en | date=September 18, 2011 | author=Ben Dirs | title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia | work=BBC Sport | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/14959055.stm | page=
|passage=After another penalty miss, Kvirikashvili finally found the target on
27 minutes before Flood hit back with a three- POINTER of his own.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[anything that points or is used for pointing]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Malay: [ms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] [e.g. teacher or instructor] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Thai: [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[teacher's pointer]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[needle of a timepiece or measuring device]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [colloquial]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Malay: [ms]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[hunting dog]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Malay: [ms]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[computer programming: variable that stores the address of another variable]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [colloquial]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Malay: [ms]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[tip, bit of advice]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- German: [de]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
[computing: icon indicating mouse position]
[advice]
**** See also
- [en] dereference , address
*** Further reading
- [pointer (dog)]
- [pointer (computer programming)]
- [pointer (user interface)]
- [pointer (disambiguation)]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] [en]
** French
*** Etymology 1
From [fr], from the past participle of [fr].
**** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
**** Verb
[fr-verb]
1. [fr] to point to/at
2. [fr] to indicate , to show , to point out
3. [fr] to clock in , to clock on , to punch in ; to clock out , to clock off , to punch out [to enter or leave a workplace by punching a time card]
4. [fr] to show up , turn up
***** Conjugation
[fr-conj-auto]
***** Derived terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
***** Descendants
- [de]
*** Etymology 2
[fr].
**** Pronunciation
- [pointèr]
**** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [dog]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
[póynter]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [breed of hunting dog]
[pt]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [ro] [en]
2. * [1=ro]
3. [ro] [en] [dog breed]
**** Declension
[pl=pointeri]