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enlightenment
English
Alternative forms
- enlightment (rare)
Etymology
From enlighten +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?la?t?nm?nt/, /?n?la?t?nm?nt/, /-la?tm?nt/
Noun
enlightenment (usually uncountable, plural enlightenments)
- An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
- A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
Synonyms
- epiphany
- peace that passeth understanding
- satori
Translations
References
- enlightenment at OneLook Dictionary Search
- enlightenment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- enlightenment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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pointer
English
Etymology
point +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??nt?/
- Hyphenation: point?er
- Rhymes: -??nt?(?)
Noun
pointer (plural pointers)
- Anything that points or is used for pointing.
- A teacher's pointer, pointing stick, a rod with an arrow.
- Synonym: fescue
- Hyponym: yad
- A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.
- Synonyms: hand, needle
- (hunting) A breed of hunting dog, trained to point out game.
- 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 30:
- 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.
- 2007, American Kennel Club, The Complete Dog Book, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 30:
- (programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.
- Synonym: reference
- Hyponyms: dangling pointer, function pointer, null pointer
- (graphical user interface) An icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse.
- Synonym: cursor
- 1995, Aaron Marcus, Nick Smilonich, Lynne Thompson, The Cross-GUI Handbook, Addison-Wesley ?ISBN, page 231:
- 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.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tip, a bit of advice.
- Synonym: advice
- (in combinations) Something worth a given number of points.
Translations
See also
- (programming) dereference, address
Further reading
- pointer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (computer programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (user interface) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- pointer (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Petrino, Petroni, interop, protein, pterion, repoint, tropein, tropine
Dutch
Etymology
From English pointer.
Pronunciation
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers, diminutive pointertje n)
- (programming) pointer
French
Etymology 1
point +? -er, from the past participle of poindre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw??.te/
- Homophones: pointai, pointé, pointée, pointées, pointés, pointez
- Rhymes: -e
Verb
pointer
- to point to/at
- (by extension) to indicate, to show, to point out
- to punch in, to clock in
- (informal, takes a reflexive pronoun) to show up, turn up
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (to show up): arriver
Derived terms
- pointage
- pointer du doigt
- zéro pointé
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English pointer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw??.t??/
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers)
- pointer (dog)
Further reading
- “pointer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Noun
pointer m (plural pointers)
- pointer (breed of hunting dog)
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