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point out

point out verb: to identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.

Verb

point out (third-person singular simple present points out, present participle pointing out, simple past and past participle pointed out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
    • He pointed out the little brown bird in the tree.
    • She pointed out the two drummers in the class.
  2. (figuratively, idiomatic) To tell, remind, indicate.
    • I would just like to point out that we need to finish our meeting by 9 o'clock.
    • On November 15 our Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Soviet ambassador Petrov of this decision. At the same time I sent a message to President Harry S. Truman, pointing out that Soviet Russia's treaty violations and bad faith in Manchuria not only were detrimental to China's territorial...1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146

point out meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

point out in Hindi

to point out, indicate, explain
सुझाना sujhānā

point out in Tamil

identify with a bodily gesture
சுட்டிக்காட்டு cuṭṭikkāṭṭu, குறிப்பிடு kuṟippiṭu

point out in Urdu

انگلی دکھانا

point out in Malayalam

identify with a bodily gesture
ചൂണ്ടിക്കാണിക്കുക cūṇṭikkāṇikkuka
tell, remind, indicate to someone
ചൂണ്ടിക്കാണിക്കുക cūṇṭikkāṇikkuka
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point out in Kannada
ತೋರಿಸು, ಸುಟ್ಟು, ಸುಟ್ಟಿಸು, ಸೂಂಟಿಸು
point out in Sanskrit
दिशति diśati
point out in Assamese
আঙুলিয়া aṅulia
point out in Arabic
أَشَارَ ʔašāra

Forms of point out

third-person singular presentpoints out
present participlepointing out
past participlepointed out
pastpointed out

Origin of point out

From point and out. Instead of pointing to a particular thing, the term implies pointing to one particular thing out of several similar things, or to a thing in a scene where it might not be readily seen.

Questions about point out

What does point out mean?
Point out means to identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
What is point out in Hindi?
Point out in Hindi is सुझाना (sujhānā). See Point out meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is point out?
Point out is a verb.
What is the past tense of point out?
The past tense of point out is pointed out.

Words near point out in the dictionary

  1. Point of the Mountain
  2. point of use
  3. point of view
  4. point of vision
  5. point one's toes
  6. point out
  7. point paper
  8. point particle
  9. point particles
  10. point penalties
  11. point penalty

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: point out (page history and authors); सुझाना (Hindi) (page history and authors); point out (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); point out (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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