different between scent vs pointer

English

Alternative forms

• sent (obsolete)

Etymology

From c.1400, borrowed from Old French sentir (“to feel, perceive, smell”), from Old French sentire "to feel, perceive, sense", from Latin sent?re, present active infinitive of senti?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”), and thus related to Dutch zin (“sense, meaning”), German Sinn (“sense”), Low German Sinn (“sense”), Luxembourgish Sënn (“sense, perception”), Saterland Frisian Sin (“sense”), West Frisian sin (“sense”). The -c- appeared in the 17th century, possibly by influence of ascent, descent, etc., or by influence of science.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?nt, IPA^(key): /s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophones: cent, sent

Noun

scent (countable and uncountable, plural scents)

1. A distinctive odour or smell.

2. An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

3. The sense of smell.

4. A perfume.
5. (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
6. (obsolete) Sense, perception.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's sent.

Usage notes

• Almost always applied to agreeable odors (fragrances).

Synonyms

Derived terms

• scented
• scentless

Translations

Verb

scent (third-person singular simple present scents, present participle scenting, simple past and past participle scented)

1. (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To have a suspicion of.

3. (transitive) To impart an odour to.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To have a smell.

   • Thunderbolts […] do sent strongly of brimstone.

5. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

Translations

Anagrams

• cents

English

Etymology

point +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??nt?/
• Hyphenation: point?er
• Rhymes: -??nt?(?)

Noun

pointer (plural pointers)

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

   Synonym: fescue

   Hyponym: yad

3. A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.

   Synonyms: hand, needle

5. (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.

6. (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
7. (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.

8. (chiefly in the plural) A tip, a bit of advice.

   Synonym: advice

1. (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)

1. (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

1. to point to/at
2. (by extension) to indicate, to show, to point out
3. to punch in, to clock in
4. (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)

1. 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)

1. pointer (breed of hunting dog)