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Pointing vs Photograph - What's the difference?

pointing | photograph |

As nouns the difference between pointing and photograph

is that pointing is the action of the verb to point while photograph is ("photographer").

As a verb pointing

is .

pointing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • 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)

    Anagrams

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    photograph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs , MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}

    Derived terms

    * photo * photographic * photography * photographer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take a photograph of.
  • * Hamerton
  • He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
  • * Lady D. Hardy
  • He is photographed on my mind.
  • To take photographs.
  • To appear in a photograph.
  • She photographs well. The camera ''loves'' her.