POINTING OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pointing out mean? 

• POINTING OUT (noun)
  The noun POINTING OUT has 1 sense:

1. indication by demonstration

  Familiarity information: POINTING OUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POINTING OUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indication by demonstration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("pointing out" is a kind of...):

indicant; indication (something that serves to indicate or suggest)

 Context examples 

Anne longed for the power of representing to them all what they were about, and of pointing out some of the evils they were exposing themselves to.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The other boys said he was all right, and gave him advice, pointing out his faults as a scrapper and promising him victory if he carried out their instructions.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All day Alleyne looked down upon the changing scene, and all day the old bowman stood by his elbow, pointing out the crests of famous warriors and the arms of noble houses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We accordingly went—and there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Chillip, he proceeded, in the calmest and slowest manner, quite electrified me, by pointing out that Mr. Murdstone sets up an image of himself, and calls it the Divine Nature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I will give you the details on all that I am pointing out here.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When I told Mrs. Westenra that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was only upon my representing to him that I had given a promise that The Adventure of the Second Stain should be published when the times were ripe, and pointing out to him that it is only appropriate that this long series of episodes should culminate in the most important international case which he has ever been called upon to handle, that I at last succeeded in obtaining his consent that a carefully guarded account of the incident should at last be laid before the public.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To Catherine's simple feelings, this odd sort of reserve seemed neither kindly meant, nor consistently supported; and its unkindness she would hardly have forborne pointing out, had its inconsistency been less their friend; but Anne and Maria soon set her heart at ease by the sagacity of their I know what; and the evening was spent in a sort of war of wit, a display of family ingenuity, on one side in the mystery of an affected secret, on the other of undefined discovery, all equally acute.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out with another man’s cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)