noun A useful tip or piece of advice.
- She gave me a few pointers on how to improve my resume.
- My uncle offered a couple of pointers before my first job interview.
- Do you have any pointers for someone learning to bake bread?
noun A rod or object used to indicate something, such as on a chart or screen.
- He used a laser pointer to highlight the chart during his presentation.
- The teacher tapped the map with a wooden pointer.
- Please hand me the pointer so I can show everyone the diagram.
noun A breed of hunting dog trained to signal the location of game by standing still and facing toward it.
- Their pointer froze in the field the moment it caught the scent.
- The hunter trusted his pointer to find the birds in the long grass.
- A well-trained pointer will stay perfectly still with one paw raised.
noun In computing, a variable that stores the memory address of another value.
- The bug was caused by a pointer referencing memory that had already been freed.
- In this language, a pointer holds the address where the data is stored.
- Our lecturer explained how to follow a pointer to reach the value it refers to.
