Painting vs Pointing - What's the difference?
painting | pointing |
(lb) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
(lb) The action of applying paint to a surface.
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(lb) The same activity as an art form.
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The action of the verb to point .
(usually singular or collective) Mortar that has been placed between bricks to hold them together. This is not strictly speaking correct word to use in this context, mortar would be the correct word, or joint filling. (or perhaps applies in the US only) This term is often misused as meaning mortar or joint filling, as 'repointing' is the action of making good and repairing of joints between stone.
The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
(art) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.
(Webster 1913)