POINT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does point out mean? 

• POINT OUT (verb)
  The verb POINT OUT has 3 senses:

1. make or write a comment on

2. point out carefully and clearly

3. present and urge reasons in opposition

  Familiarity information: POINT OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POINT OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or write a comment on

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

comment; notice; point out; remark

Context example:

he commented the paper of his colleague

Hypernyms (to "point out" is one way to...):

mention; note; observe; remark (make mention of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "point out"):

criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

wisecrack (make a comment, usually ironic)

kibbitz; kibitz (make unwanted and intrusive comments)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Point out carefully and clearly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call attention; point out; signalise; signalize

Hypernyms (to "point out" is one way to...):

designate; indicate; point; show (indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Present and urge reasons in opposition

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

point out; remonstrate

Hypernyms (to "point out" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "point out"):

represent (point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

“But I pray you, since you seem to know him, to point out to me the shortest path to my brother's house.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of her dear Isabella, to whom she particularly longed to point out that gentleman, she could see nothing.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Did you point out to her that you and Mr. Phelps, who started at least twenty minutes after her, got home before her?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But I beg to point out that I have not yet heard what has happened to Mr. Garcia, nor what has become of his household.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A signal which serves to indicate or point out the specific use cases for a particular concomitant medication.

(Concomitant Medication Use Indication, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): This description should point out what is different between the Arms, if there is more than one Arm.

(Arm Description, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

You’ll have time to think the point out during the next ten years or so, unless I am mistaken.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I need not point out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case considerably in any future proceedings which may arise.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I point out these areas because Uranus, the planet of disruption and surprise, is based in your ninth house, which rules these topics.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mills and team point out that the areas with co-existing winter brown and winter white animals would be places with special potential for evolutionary rescue, where genetically driven adaptive traits reverse population decline.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)