POINTED


Meaning of POINTED in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a pointed chin

She had a narrow face and a pointed chin.

pointy/pointed

The dog has short pointy ears.

rightly pointed out

As you so rightly pointed out , things are getting worse.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

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Short wings, more pointed than other owls, combine with long tail to give hawk-like silhouette.

The farmers of Odiham in Hampshire got an even more pointed warning.

The male's is slightly more pointed than the female's.

The male is larger and has a more pointed dorsal fin.

■ NOUN

arch

To their right was an old portico, its row of pointed arches almost like a church.

The simple nave arcade is of moulded brick in wide pointed arches .

Both of these stem from the original adoption of the pointed arch .

It has an exceptionally lofty nave arcade whose pointed arches reach almost into the vault.

The pointed arch was not new.

Here, the round arches are predominant on the lower storey of both nave and tower and pointed arches above.

The Romanesque is of Transitional type, with wide pointed arches and barrel vault, a clerestory but no triforium.

The wide pointed arches have no mouldings.

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Take turns in hitting each other's rounded end with the pointed end of your own egg.

Position the template as you wish, with the thin, pointed end next to the model.

Also used were pin beaters, long pieces of bone with a central swelling and pointed ends for beating down individual threads.

The pointed ends also have a gardening use, as if you hadn't guessed.

With corns, the build-up is cone-shaped, with the pointed end - the nucleus - facing downwards.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a plant with long pointed leaves

He picked up a pointed stick and began drawing in the sand.

the dog's pointed brown ears

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He went after Isaac just as the crouching figure opened its enormous mouth, baring pointed brownish teeth.

Their faces were like monkey faces, with thick lips and pointed teeth and ugly flat noses.

There are 3 slightly flattened pointed conical arm spines, of which the middle one is the largest.

There are three equally spaced pointed arm spines on the proximal segments, but they are lacking on the distalmost segments.

There are three or four conical pointed arm spines.

To their right was an old portico, its row of pointed arches almost like a church.

Use a sharp pointed instrument, such as a pen or pencil.

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