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Definitions in simple English

pointed

If something is pointed, it is sharp, it has a point. The warrior brandished a pointed spear.

pointed

having a point direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant a pointed critique a pointed allusion to what was going on another pointed look in their direction

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Simple sentences

Tom pointed at Mary.
It wasn't me who pointed out his mistakes.
It is often pointed out that smoking is a danger to health.
That report was important because it pointed out all the errors the committee had made.
I pointed my camera at her.
I was abashed when my mistakes were pointed out.
I pointed to the factory.
I pointed at him.
The teacher pointed out the pupil's mistakes.
The teacher pointed to the blackboard.
The teacher pointed out the grammatical errors made by the students.
He pointed to the tower over there.
He pointed out some spelling errors to her.
The burglar pointed his gun at the victim.
The child pointed out her mother to me.
I pointed out that he was mistaken about the matter.
Jim pointed out some grammatical mistakes in my composition.
The teacher pointed her finger at me and asked me to come with her.
The teacher pointed her finger at me and asked me to go with her.
He pointed out that the plan would cost a lot of money.

Movie subtitles

We weren't, but then you pointed out we had all those beers, and Barry said we should drink them.
But when he heard something that displeased him, he climbed on top of the load they carried, pointed his nose skyward, and howled.
The defense has pointed out Snow's shady character, has indicated his large number of personal enemies.
You pointed down, you pointed down.
You should have pointed up for heaven.
Maybe it's your secretary. -Now I'm ruined, I'm pointed out.
But I pointed out that a dam was going up on the very site he had chosen.
Of course, his whole eye got inflamed, and the lecturer pointed out. that the lining in your stomach. is exactly the same composition as your eyeball.
She pointed out the Oki switch to me.
Remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
It was you who pointed the way.
The law is a gun pointed at somebody's head.
Ellen Whitcomb has pointed out to you this afternoon the deep obligation we have to take a vital part in the crisis confronting our country.
Galileo made a telescope and pointed it at the sky in 1610.
And that's the direction in which he pointed.
He is dramatically pointed up by a series of three successively closer shots, similar to Whale's introduction of Frankenstein's monster, played by Boris Karloff in the 1931 production of Frankenstein.
He pointed out that some of the changes Sherriff made, such as adding Flora and her father, expanding Kemp's role, and making him a romantic rival, presented an interesting parallel.
Lately, they've become more persistent, more pointed.
Insulin shock treatment is an extreme measure, Paul. as Miss Connell pointed out when she suggested it to me, but.
A five-pointed star, the pentagram.
Good. To have overlooked me would have been a pointed insult.
My beard was at first pointed, then square. Next, I kept my sideburns. I looked rather like a young Franz Joseph.
Well, maybe you're right. As you pointed out there are certain similarities between the two crimes.
And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
It was pointed toward the end of the pier and the throttle pulled out.
I have already pointed out to your father that there are no valid objections.
And I've already pointed out to you, sir, that I'll make up my own mind!
It gives me great pride that it was a member of my own sex who pointed the way.
It was the Gothic style with pointed arches and soaring lines.
The old wooden ceilings were replaced by brick vaults and the slender, soaring ribs met in pointed arches.
Colonel, as Lucienne pointed out, there is a danger.
So you've pointed out so often.
They neglected to tell you at school that a rabbit has large pointed ears.
When I moved in a few days ago, Mr. Steele was pointed out to me by the manager.
People asked for my autograph and pointed me out.

News and current affairs

Later, Maurice Obstfeld pointed out that, in addition to fiscal transfers, a currency union needs clearly defined rules for the lender of last resort.
Their leaders have consistently pointed out that our current problems are the result of the gases emitted by the industrialized nations over the past century.
Climate economists repeatedly have pointed out that such energy innovation is the most effective climate solution, because it is the surest way to drive the price of future green energy sources below that of fossil fuels.
At least the Initiative pointed in the right direction.
At the same time, it pointed to the need to increase food production to feed the extra two billion people expected to be alive in 2050, and suggested that more investment in agriculture in developing countries is required to improve productivity.
Doctors have pointed out that, whilst recognizing that an increasing majority of the population wants such a service to be available, to hasten death intentionally is still inherently incompatible with the basic objectives of medicine.
As economists Ronald Schettkat and Richard Freeman have pointed out, career women do not necessarily work more hours per week than women with part-time jobs or stay-at-home moms.
But, as many pointed out to me, this is partly the result of deliberate government measures to deflate it (also comforting is the fact that consumers are in general not overleveraged).
Acting prime minister Ehud Olmert and others pointed out years ago that Israel's permanent occupation will be increasingly difficult as the relative number of Jewish citizens decreases demographically both within Israel and in Palestine.
As Duke University's Peter Feaver, an expert on public opinion who is now serving as a White House advisor, recently pointed out, Americans will tolerate casualties when they believe that a war is just and has a reasonable prospect of success.
But as Louis Kuijs of the World Bank has pointed out, what sets China apart from many other developing countries is not that households save uniquely high levels of their income, but that enterprises do.
He pointed particularly to the PLA's increasing number of short-, intermediate- and even long-range ballistic missiles.
As one journalist pointed out, when 400,000 people (far more than Hazare's followers in Delhi) marched in Kolkata in May 1998 to protest against the government's nuclear tests, the media barely noticed.
It has been generations since economists Robert Solow and Moses Abramovitz pointed out that Marshall's toolkit is a poor aid for understanding modern economic growth.
Thailand's ambassador pointed out that using the Copenhagen Consensus prioritization framework could help the UN to ensure better, more effective utilization of scarce resources in tackling top issues.
Martin Baily and James Manyika recently pointed out that we have seen this movie before.
Bush pointed his finger primarily elsewhere. Food prices had responded to growing demand.
As the Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge has pointed out, the task has been made easier by moving the goal posts.
And, in politics, as Machiavelli pointed out long ago, it is more important to be feared than loved.
In the last few weeks, Al Qaeda's propaganda messages have pointed increasingly at the Iraqi crisis.
He pointed out that when ideas first come into the world, they are likely to be woolly, and in need of more work to define them sharply.
The Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence has pointed out that after WWII, only a handful of countries were able to grow to a fully-industrialized level of development.
Wen Jiabao's critique six years ago was a powerful diagnosis of the Old China's flaws that pointed to the Next China's hopes and dreams.
Keynes pointed out the fallacy here: while the income derived from production is, by definition, equal to the value of production, it does not follow that all this income will be spent.
As Hannah Arendt pointed out six decades ago, the rise of anti-Semitism fueled Europe's descent into totalitarianism.
Bush pointed his finger primarily elsewhere.
Furthermore, as Harvard's Jeffrey Frankel has pointed out, regulators increased margin requirements several times this year, making it harder to buy stocks with borrowed money.

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