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Sentence Examples Similarly if the box becomes lighter then the spring will lift the box up and the pointer will move up the scale. The position of a mobile pointer on a calibrated scale carries information about the magnitude of the quantity being measured. The sensor could be inserted into tissue, excited with a laser pointer, and provide real-time, continuous monitoring of blood glucose level. It's going to be really hard to operate that laser pointer with multiple skull fractures! The picture is then traced onto the boards, using a pointer or toothed wheel, and marked out with cones from the alder tree or with coffee beans. Have you ever seen a baby so small that his whole hand is the size of the pad of your pointer finger? How he fares might give us a little pointer to his long-term Ireland future. It is a pointer to the fact that the actual bill may, itself, be wrong and the estimate right. Segmentation means dividing memory into several segments and accessing memory by both segment pointer and offset. A little over 6 months ago, Nick Petersen died at West Beach after being taken by a 4m white pointer. When I first installed it, the mouse pointer would frequently just freeze without warning and I would have to reboot the computer. Ergal the pointer was only a year old and he moved with a stylish grace that heralds the beginning of a great bird dog. Adding guard bands around the main station pointer variables, plus code to check for intrusion into those guard bands. The station pointer is a navigating instrument which can be used to plot ones position from three corrected compass bearings. Called a three arm protractor or station pointer, it was invented in 1801 by Joseph Huddart, a U.S. naval captain. He positions the station pointer on the chart and lines up the three arms with the objects ashore. After setting the legs of the station pointer to the right angles it can be laid on a map showing the same objects. At block 356 the station pointer is loaded into the X register to find out what station is involved. While a small point in itself, it is in our view another pointer against such a relationship. The same is true of the beam of a laser pointer, though the distance is much longer. Show More Sentences The car did not slow down when signaled by a U.S. soldier holding a search light and laser pointer. He should attach the laser pointer as he originally described, leave the pedal firmly screwed into the crank and rotate the crank. If the shaft is bent the light on the wall from the laser pointer will travel several inches as the shaft is rotated. There is a valid US patent for a method of exercising one's cat by using a laser pointer to create a moving spot of light. It also provides a handy pointer to The Camel-Toe Report for anyone still in the dark. On other CPUs, the data dependency implied by the pointer dereference suffices, so on these CPUs, line 18 generates no code. Any dereference of a pointer that causes a fault must be an access to an object on an access frontier page. Heading pointer or navigational queuing was not displayed in the heads-up display. And is this fact no more than nostalgia or is it a pointer to what the future holds? Eye contact fosters trust and understanding and hence is a pointer to the quality of future interaction you may have with someone. United's eventual 6-5 defeat on aggregate to Real was painful and a pointer to where Ferguson will devote his energies, and money, next season. The junior tour was first held in 1978 and has proved a pointer to the future stars in cycling. I do not know if I want to carry on with this but that is only a slight feeling and is no pointer to any future direction. Mellon is financially astute and his arrival on the share register was a pointer to possible developments in the future. In a pointer to the future, business investment dropped to a growth rate of 4.7 percent compared to 14.5 percent in the previous quarter. The idea is that the aggregated purchases and disposals by directors is the most reliable pointer to the future direction of the market. The sculpture would be a reminder of the past and the lights would represent a pointer to the future. If you have a wheel mouse try placing the pointer in the bottom scroll bar and playing with the wheel. When the queue for that link reaches a pointer in the FIFO for that data packet, it is retrieved from memory and forwarded to its destination. Strictly speaking, a null pointer, one of the most common errors in C programming, is a pointer with an uninitialised value. Show More Sentences If there was one, it would be a dog, probably a pointer or a collie, and it would be trained so well it would probably die on command. This guy, this kid, teaches his dog, a mongrel, to be a pointer, and his father hates the idea because he breeds pure-breeds. Dr. Thornton was involved in more than just importing and breeding the German shorthaired pointer in those early years. There's kudos in finding a great fashion look at a modest price and without the obvious pointer of a flashy designer label. Dog handler Shawn Griffin kneeled and grabbed a bobwhite quail from the panting pointer. A planchette or pointer of some sort is manipulated by those using the board. It is true that some people use pointer in a broader sense more-or-less equivalent to reference, so the distinction made above is not universal. He stands beside a screen, a computer and an overhead projector, pointer in hand. The mechanism was clearly a type of analog computer, using fixed gear ratios to make calculations displayed as pointer readings on a dial. Each node would carry only one pointer field to traverse the list back and forth. Permalinks are the equivalent of a citation, providing a semipermanent pointer to a piece of content. As a pointer on the fallacies of lazy thinking based on faith rather than facts, it makes a great read. To help him work with the predominantly non-English-speaking crew, he was given a laser pointer. They can see how far they have moved the pointer as they go through the journey. At the bottom of each there are a number of blank code spaces, and a pointer is set to indicate one of these on each item. The old scale was analog, with a dial and a pointer that waggled a bit unless you stood perfectly still. The expanding diaphragm moves the pointer across a scale calibrated in feet above sea level. The unenthusiastic response to conventional arts and science courses is a pointer to the lacklustre job opportunities available for such courses. This could be a pointer to many new writers who are bound by geographical limits. Conversely, when the device is removed from the USB bus, the disconnect function is called with the device pointer. Show More Sentences Implanted on the abdomen or upper arm, the diabetic would read his or her glucose levels from a device the size of a laser pointer. If your mouse pointer is moving too fast, drag the slider to the slower side. I'm not using these examples as a pointer to the level of their skills, this is just a statement about the sound they've shamelessly ripped off. He is also said to have constructed a armillary sphere, a water clock, and a bronze gnomon, a pointer whose shadow gives the time of mid-day. In response, the pointer allegedly moves in such a way as to spell out or point to a spiritualistic and telepathic answer on the board. But the crowning glory is when the pointer turns around and gives an approving look and tail wag before he trots off to pick up another bird. I file the papers in their eventual home and create a pointer for myself to remind me that there's unfinished business filed away there. The meter shown in the galvanometers section has a twisted pointer although it is too small to see in the picture. He stopped and looked down at his hands before taking his pointer finger and putting the pad of his finger on her cheek. The pointer was already spelling something else, moving eerily across the glossy surface. Westaro started the brighter with Selsby finding his shooting form early, bagging the opening basket followed by a three pointer. Hohenbruck, Thornton's first German shorthaired pointer, arrived in Missoula in whelp. She held her pointer finger and her middle finger to her forehead upon her sacred shard. A trackball is stationary and the pointer can be moved using your thumb by rolling the ball which sits on the top. Run the pointer over the plug to monitor how quickly your laptop is recharging. He is a German wire-haired pointer so he is ideal for mountain rescue, he has bags of enthusiasm and energy. Indeed, whatever stands in dispute and needs a ruling the pointer of the balance will determine. As Jason put in the three pointer at the buzzer, he won the game for his team, and his wife. A gyroscope inside translates movement through the air into mouse movements, which moves the pointer on the screen. The camera crew took advantage of this and used a green laser pointer to entice the cheerleaders to move around the stadium. Show More Sentences The opening weeks of 2005 are giving a firm pointer to the increased competitiveness and dramatic developments that will shape the telecommunications sector this year. When Tony takes over Danny's body, his voice begins to croak and he shakes his pointer finger for emphasis. The idea is that as you roll your mouse pointer over the screen, the various function buttons will produce a response in the mouse that you can feel. A macronuclear pointer could derive entirely from the headpointer, entirely from the tailpointer, or chimerically from both, depending on the splice location. They buckled in 2000 in anticipation of the economic slump, and hopefully their resurgence now is a pointer to better things to come in the years ahead. The past is more than relevant, but it is never a pointer to the future. The shadow cast by the sun on a horizontal surface, such as the ground, moves clockwise around the pointer, but this time it varies in length during the day. The German longhaired pointer owes its looks and temperament to several of the long-haired continental bird dogs, as well as the Irish and Gordon setters. I emailed this person back, with a screenshot of my Start menu, with the mouse pointer pointing to the Printers folder at the top of the start menu. One guy called me and said he had to have a larger work desk, because he did not reach down to to left corner of the screen with his mouse pointer. This lightweight station pointer is currently in use throughout the world. She pointed her pointer on the map and moved it over to Japan. A pointer, called an alidade, was pivoted at the centre of the disk. Just as industrial America was for long the pointer to the world's economic future, so Australia was once a pointer to coming political institutions. She was repeatedly banging the mouse on the foam wrist-rest of the mouse pad, causing the pointer on the screen to stop half way down the monitor. We said earlier that the end of a pointer, pointing at Polaris, casts a shadow that moves round a circle on a disk parallel to the equator of the Earth. The only back pointer available is the link to the original community. Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer. Its light source is a toy laser pointer, the kind often used by lecturers. And Adam traces this little company from, you know, its beginning in a garage selling a laser pointer to becoming a, you know, multi-billion-dollar business. Show More Sentences It can be a timesaver to have a bird dog, a pointer in an unknown area. The big disadvantage, and almost a dead give-away of this trick, is that the compass pointer moves in direct response to the movement and the proximity of your body! The RTAI kernel module detects the vertical refresh of the monitor and changes a pointer in the video card memory that tells the video card what to draw on the screen. The entire operation was accomplished by turning a handwheel until the pointer indicated the desired angle on the graduated scale on the pedestal. Occasionally during the interview, he used a laser pointer from his desk to highlight areas on the map. Motors, relays, generators, or simply other magnets or magnetic materials, can all also cause the pointer to move, overpowering the Earth's magnetism. A memory leak occurs when memory is allocated and not freed after use, or when the pointer to a memory allocation is deleted, rendering the memory no longer usable. In the case of high-carbon or alloy steels, there is a very definite retrograde movement of the pointer when the calescent states of the material are reached. Touch screen controls and laser pointer assist the operator in removing 95 percent of imbalance in the tool and toolholder. Some are brown and white, like pointer dogs, others are spotted like Danish dogs, and some with curled hair. The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry. A typical laser pointer outputs about five milliwatts of light power, whereas a typical hearing aid for people uses less than one milliwatt. Originally called the Weimar pointer, the dog is pointerlike in general outline and similar to the German short-haired pointer, only larger. Indeed, a review of the evidence shows that the Chinese embarked magnetic pointer was probably little used for navigation. Use a ceramic tool or any pointer to sgraffito the lines in the enamel powder. An iterator is a generalization of a pointer and we could templatize the code to work off any iterator. I'd like to see a long shot beyond an established line become a three pointer. It would stand out like a home run in baseball. Turn him belly-up and stroke him to sleep with your pointer finger. Melissa got her wish to have a lavish living space for Bailey, an 11-year-old German shorthaired pointer. The box contains LogOff, ShutDown and Restart buttons and the mouse pointer is locked within the confines of the box. Show More Sentences Anyway, he's a wise old bird and may hand you a pointer or two about what's what in New York. They can also do a journeyman's job, hunting to the gun in the uplands as either a flusher or a pointer, depending on how they have been trained. Farsi and Duncan acted in tandem as both were aesthetes and respected the best of the past as a pointer to the future. In addition to the aforementioned guide dogs, Tank, a male German shorthaired pointer puppy, was auctioned off to a beaming Chris Edbrooke. Similarly, Searle acknowledged that ostension, by virtue of the intentions of a pointer, fits the descriptivist thesis. And the fork is a fine example, as it's frequently a back scratcher and, particularly attractive, as a pointer when arguing across the table. My guide introduced me to Bo, a white pointer that didn't have much fieldtrial style. The white pointer tore two chunks from swimmer Jason Cull's left leg, leaving him floundering and screaming for help. But the injuries to the black and white pointer were so bad he had to be put down. It offers a built-in 3-watt speaker and comes with a remote control mouse with laser pointer. Born with cerebral palsy, Sweeney doesn't speak but chooses letters on a board with a laser pointer she wears attached to a baseball cap. On the roof, a large compass pointer and list of peaks identify the greater and lesser landmarks in the magnificent panorama. Playing with his toy mouse and chasing the beam from my laser pointer until he's exhausted. You bolt it to the wall, and with the laser pointer the miner walks to the face and marks his line. The majority of laser pointer illuminations cause reactions of startling, after imaging, or flash blinding. It has also been shown in a prior report that a laser pointer can cause a focal disturbance of the retinal pigment epithelium. A finger sling that attaches from the thumb to the pointer finger encourages the best shooting form and follow-through. He remapped the variable in the code to hold the value directly, instead of a pointer to the value. Another telltale pointer is the plate mark, a straight line indentation in the paper which runs around and just beyond the edge of the image. Analogue facia with Asymmetric Scale and Single Sweep pointer. Show More Sentences Twitter's URL shortener will also display the target link if users hover the mouse pointer over the shortened link to give users a better idea of where they are going. A monster buck was following the same trail that the three pointer had traveled, and when the big buck stepped behind the last of the Russian olives, I drew my bow and waited. The classic double-slit experiment is simple to execute, requiring only a coherent light source such as a laser pointer, a screen and a plate with two thin parallel slits. Swimmer Bryn Martin, 64, was thought to have been taken by a great white, also known as a white pointer, two weeks ago after vanishing off Perth s Cottesloe Beach. On the same hand, his pointer finger is not as bent, but an unwanted ball of tissue is forming on the palm under the scars from previous surgeries. In a dark meeting room, armed with a laser pointer, UO assistant coach Gary Campbell transformed Jonathan Stewart into a different kind of running back this offseason. Examples from Classical Literature It's fine with any of 'em that's got bird-dog blood, an' you know Spot's part pointer. The pointer, sitting in front of the crew chief, moved a hand and flicked a switch. The pointer, the greyhound, the racehorse, and the hunter are all examples. To this class belong most of the useful dogs, such as the spaniel, the setter, the pointer and the sheepdog. The pointer now indicates the muzzle velocity to be used in computing the next shot. It was the pointer, Ginnie, whom the Virginia family in Hempstead had given us. The lowest index, fitted with a single pointer, indicates the motion of the moon from its apogee or perigee. The professor then took his place again on the rostrum, with the pointer in his hand. Luke moved the pantograph pointer, again and again, until it touched Weaver's robed body. The pantograph pointer moved down the side of God's nose and another wedge of stone fell in the plaza. I tipped the pater a pointer on that long ago, and got well cursed for my pains. A huge dial beside the plate had a pointer and scores of notches, each labeled with a couple of squiggly characters. It was a defective barometer, and had no hand but the stationary brass pointer, but I did not know that until afterward. The plus sign mouse pointer, which is considered as a signature of spreadsheet editors has been added. In each figure the pointer is over one of the red lines on the scale. He combined the attributes of pointer, cocker spaniel, and retriever. The angle of the pointer, or style, must be changed for each latitude. Clare took the same kind of amusement in the child that a man might in the tricks of a parrot or a pointer. With the pointer in his hand he touched the star at the apex of the fir. He relates to the public directly as an equal and an intimate, becoming the satirical pointer or ironic moralizer. Show More Sentences Cowper ran in and out among the plunder, like a pointer in a turnip field. A pointer, not a setter, yet He's of no use unless he's set. Fiona was shipped over from the US last summer and is descended from a dalmatian and a pointer. In this case the indication of the pointer must be divided by ten. He entered the flier, exchanging casual remarks with his companions as he unlocked the mechanism of the compass and set the pointer upon the capital city of Ptarth. I set the pointer here upon the right-hand dial which represents the eastern hemisphere of Barsoom, so that the point rests upon the exact latitude and longitude of Helium. Then he returned the dial to its place, set the pointer, and removed it again to note the resultant change in the position of the parts affected by the act. He set the pointer for a certain station in Greater Helium, raised the arched lid of the thing, stepped in and lay down upon the upholstered bottom. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of pointer? Words that rhyme with pointer What is the plural of pointer? What is the adverb for pointer? What is the adjective for pointer? What is the noun for pointer? Translations for pointer Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words pointed towards pointed out pointedness pointedly pointed pointe Pointer pointers pointes pointillism pointillist pointillistic 7-letter Words Starting With p po poi poin point pointe