backhand index pointing up

backhand

— adjective (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward — noun a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke — adjective (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke — verb hit a tennis ball backhand

index Noun

— An index is an alphabetical (A to Z) list, usually at the back of a book, where you can find the pages in a book that talk about particular things or words. Look in the index to see where they talk about Chomsky. — An index shows the level of prices, wages, etc. so you can compare them with those of an earlier date. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones index closed 10 points up at 2,731.23.

index Verb

— If you index something, you make an index (guide) for it. — If you index something to a certain price level, you make it go up or down with that level.

pointing noun

— The action of the verb to point. — (usually singular or collective, sometimes, proscribed) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to hold them together. — The act or art of punctuating; punctuation. — The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling. — (art) 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.

up Preposition

— Toward the top or toward the sky. The balloon went up.

up Adjective

— In a high position. The flag is up. — . It was an up day. — optimistic. He is feeling up. — Put in trust, entrusted. It is up to you. — ing, occurring. What’s up? They act like something is up. — . Something is up with him. — Planning, plotting mischief. He is up to something. — ed. It is all up with them.

up Noun

— State of being up, often with down. Life has its ups and downs.

up Verb

— Increase, increment. We upped the dosage.