Word Meanings - POINTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. The act of sharpening.

Additional info about word: POINTING

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. (more info) 1. The act of sharpening. 2. The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod. 3. The act or art of punctuating; punctuation. 4. The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used. 5. The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.

Related words: (words related to POINTING)

• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• BLOCKISH
  Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull. "Blockish Ajax." Shak. -- Block"ish*ly, adv. -- Block"ish*ness, n.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• ARTISTE
  One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook. Note: This term should not be confounded with the English word artist.
• BLOCKING
  1. The act of obstructing, supporting, shaping, or stamping with a block or blocks. 2. Blocks used to support temporarily.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• BLOCK TIN
  See TIN
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• MEASURING
  Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure. Measuring faucet, a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured.
• BLOCK SIGNAL
  One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also.
• STATUARY
  The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple. 3. A collection of statues; statues, collectively. (more info) statuarius, a., of or belonging to statues, fr. statua statue:
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• ARTIST
  1. One who practices some mechanic art or craft; an artisan. How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller. 2. One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• STATUELIKE
  Like a statue; motionless.
• STATUETTE
  A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• CHARTIST
  A supporter or partisan of chartism.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• CARTIST
  In Spain and Portugal, one who supports the constitution.
• IMMEASURABLY
  In an immeasurable manner or degree. "Immeasurably distant." Wordsworth.
• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.