Definitions for Pointers

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Pointers point·er

Spelling: [poin-ter]

IPA: /ˈpɔɪn tər/

Pointers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 578 anagrams from letters in Pointers (einoprst).

Definitions for Pointers

noun

1. a person or thing that points.
2. a long, tapering stick used by teachers, lecturers, etc., in pointing things out on a map, blackboard, or the like.
3. the hand on a watch dial, clock face, scale, etc.
4. Military. the member of an artillery crew who aims the weapon.
5. one of a breed of short-haired hunting dogs trained to point game.
6. a piece of advice, especially on how to succeed in a specific area:
7. Computers. an identifier giving the location in storage of something of interest, as a data item, table, or subroutine. cursor (def 1).
8. Pointers, Astronomy. the two outer stars of the Big Dipper that lie on a line that passes very near Polaris and are used for finding it.

Origin of Pointers

First recorded in 1490-1500; point + -er¹

Examples for Pointers

The Great Bear is also to be remembered as the pointers for another reason.

But hey, at this point maybe Obama ought to ask for pointers from Vice President Joe Biden.

Some pointers for the Princeton kid and others who deny that racial bias exists in America today.

In which case, maybe you should take some pointers from economist Daniel Hamermesh, who has been happily married for decades.

Page 386The following is a proof of the perfection to which pointers may be brought.

Get someone who knows something about it to give you pointers on running.

Heretofore, Khalid and Shakib have been inseparable as the pointers.

One of the pointers, carried away by excitement, went up to him.

After harvest I have shot them before the pointers in turnip-fields.

I gave him some pointers and examples of grant proposals that I thought could be useful.