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pointing

adjective as in directed

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Click the small key with a downward pointing arrow at the far right of the password field and select Suggest New Password.

To sweep your arm and achieve that level of nuanced pointing and clicking, you need a mouse pad that extends as far as you do.

That will require pointing, which means understanding the rover's current orientation on Mars' surface, which the team has inferred from the shadows cast in the first images sent down.

After the parachute falls away, the spacecraft will fire up a set of downward pointing rockets to further slow its roll.

The Oracle chairman joins other tech leaders and ultra-wealthy in leaving California, with some pointing to the state’s high taxes.

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But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an ISIS connection.

Maybe he was just pointing out that many police feel that way.

Others agree, pointing out that the 2014 is not as dark a year as it may seem.

Some 20 people are there when I visit, including a father with his young son, pointing to photographs of movie stars on the walls.

“That was his idea,” says Banks, pointing across the room to Kwatinetz.

Right over the stone marker, a long-shafted war-lance was carved—the blade pointing down.

Indeed this first drawing is largely a pointing out or noting down of features without any serious effort to draw them.

Over this spot he twisted all the remaining hair into a coil about four inches long, pointing slightly forward like a horn.

Fagin nodded in the affirmative, and pointing in the direction of Saffron Hill, inquired whether any one was up yonder to-night.

"Take those men to the guardhouse," he ordered curtly, pointing an accusing finger at Hicks and Bevans.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pointing, such as: null, denoting, designating, disclosing, displaying, and evidencing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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