Noun

(en noun)

The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

Announcement; declaration.

* (Holland)

They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.

A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.

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Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.

* 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :

At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.

Noun

(en noun)

Anything that points or is used for pointing.

A needle-like component of a timepiece or measuring device that indicates the time or the current reading of the device.

A breed of hunting dog.

(programming) A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.

(computing) An icon that indicates the position of the mouse; a cursor.

A tip, a bit of advice (usually plural.)

The instructor gave me some pointers on writing a good paper.

(in combinations) Something worth a given number of points.

a ten-pointer

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, year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=After another penalty miss, Kvirikashvili finally found the target on 27 minutes before Flood hit back with a three-pointer of his own.}}