pointer

Anything that points or is used for pointing.; One who points.

• The talkers and pointers had undermined him. They had touched him with the acid of their suspicions, and the corrosion spread until he himself had lost sight of the truth.
• “Hey,” the finger pointer said, re-pointing his finger at Joe, “are you a joke or what?” / “I don't think I'm a joke.” / “Well I think you're a joke.” He dropped his hand and then lifted it again and pointed his finger at Joe's chest.

Anything that points or is used for pointing.; A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.

Anything that points or is used for pointing.; A needlelike component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.

Anything that points or is used for pointing.; Any of several breeds of hunting dog, trained to point out game; an individual of such a breed.

• 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 wer

Anything that points or is used for pointing.; A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.

• I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures."

Anything that points or is used for pointing.; An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.

• 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.

A tip, a bit of advice.in-plural

• The instructor gave me some pointers on writing a good paper.

Something that gives a point (sharp end) to something.

• pencil pointer

Something worth a given number of points.

• a ten-pointer