<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person or thing that points</li><li>a long, tapering stick used by teachers, lecturers, etc., in pointing things out on a map, blackboard, or the like</li><li>the hand on a watch dial, clock face, scale, etc.</li><li>Military: the member of an artillery crew who aims the weapon</li><li>one of a breed of short-haired hunting dogs trained to point game</li><li>a piece of advice, especially on how to succeed in a specific area</li><li>Computers: an identifier giving the location in storage of something of interest, as a data item, table, or subroutine</li><li>a moveable icon in a graphical user interface, as an arrow, that marks the user’s location in the interface relative to areas of the screen where user input is possible</li><li>Pointers, Astronomy: the two outer stars of the Big Dipper that lie on a line that passes very near Polaris and are used for finding it</li></ul>