Wo vs Pointer - What's the difference?
wo | pointer |
A falconer's call to a hawk.
A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
* 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
* (Hannah More)
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.)
(in combinations) Something worth a given number of points.
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As a preposition wo
is (lb) by.As a noun pointer is
anything that points or is used for pointing.wo
English
(wikipedia wo)Alternative forms
* whoaEtymology 1
Variant of who .Interjection
(en interjection)Etymology 2
Variant of woe .Noun
(en noun)- Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
- But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .
Anagrams
* English two-letter words ----pointer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The instructor gave me some pointers on writing a good paper.
- a ten-pointer
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