Usually means: Indicating direction or location gesturally.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word pointing:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pointing: Merriam-Webster
  3. pointing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pointing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pointing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pointing, pointing: Wordnik
  7. pointing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pointing: Wiktionary
  9. pointing: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pointing, pointing: Dictionary.com
  11. pointing: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. pointing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Pointing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pointing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pointing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pointing: Rhymezone
  17. Pointing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pointing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. pointing: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pointing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pointing: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pointing: Legal dictionary
  3. pointing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pointing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pointing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pointing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pointing: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pointing: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. pointing: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See point as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action of the verb to point.
noun:  The filling of joints in brickwork or masonry with mortar.
noun:  (usually singular or collective, sometimes proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to fill the gap.
noun:  The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
noun:  The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Synonym of nikud.

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