What's the difference between bookmark and pointer?

Bookmark


Definition:

  • (n.) Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When searching for an adjective to describe our comprehensively surveilled networked world – the one bookmarked by the NSA at one end and by Google, Facebook, Yahoo and co at the other – "Orwellian" is the word that people generally reach for.
  • (2) Samsung also says that Apple infringed three other patents: the use of email in a camera-equipped phone; bookmarking a photo in a camera-equipped phone's image gallery; multitasking on a mobile device so you can listen to music in the background.
  • (3) And it's through the live experience – something that can't be shared or bookmarked for later listening, that you have to be present for in real-time – that EDM has really achieved lift-off.
  • (4) Interaction of the dodecamer in duplex form with a tryptophan-containing peptide, KGWGK, has also been investigated to test the "bookmark" hypothesis (Gabbay et al., 1976) under the uniform structural constraint of the oligonucleotide of defined sequence.
  • (5) London still has several which have held out against the endlessly rising rents – the SWP's Bookmarks , Gay's the Word in Bloomsbury, the pacifist Housmans , and the anarchist Freedom Books.
  • (6) Updated at 12.43am GMT 9.57pm GMT There's a couple of other issues I need to bookmark but swimming with the news cycle for now, the Liberal senator Zed Seselja is on Sky News on a panel.
  • (7) However, the new system is opt-in, meaning that Facebook users will have to actively choose to download, add, or bookmark the new button onto their homepage.
  • (8) I would then have to sit down at my laptop and navigate my way to the (bookmarked) UKBA homepage to check that no new rules had been announced without my noticing, which would require me to pack my bags and leave.
  • (9) But perhaps the web can provide better metrics for scientists in the future, such as download numbers, bookmarks in social bookmarking services or even tweets and Facebook likes.
  • (10) Specifically, Samsung says Apple infringed: • '941 and '515 - essential for implementing 3G mobile communications • '460 - covers the use of email in a camera-equipped phone • '892 - bookmarking a photo in the image gallery of a camera-equipped phone • '711 - multitasking on a mobile device and allowing users to listen to music in the background What's at stake?
  • (11) He joined the BBC in 1983 went on to work as a producer and director in music and arts, on shows including Omnibus, Bookmark and Arena, and was a founding producer on BBC2's The Late Show.
  • (12) I never know what happens to them afterwards, but I still hear their voices.” Sign up to our Bookmarks newsletter Read more The book, published in France as Elle va nue la liberté , is in the process of translation into English and it is one of the great recent collections of war poetry.
  • (13) It’s that it has such universal power over its users that it’s kind of important that we not allow that power to fall into the hands of monsters,” said Maciej Ceglowski, a developer and the owner of Pinboard, a social bookmarking site.
  • (14) In both cases the parallel groups making bookmarks received particularly low scores.
  • (15) Has Samsung proven that Apple has infringed its utility patents '516 and '941 (3G standard); '711 (multitasking on a mobile device); '893 (bookmarking a photo on a camera-equipped phone); '460 (use of email in a camera-equipped phone)?
  • (16) Either way, Hugh's stunning photography and Sara's personable writing style make it one to bookmark.
  • (17) The author will be in discussion with Dean Peacock of Sonke Gender Justice at an event at Bookmarks bookshop , London, at 7pm on Thursday 2 October
  • (18) Four groups (two with a parallel structure and two with a project structure) participated in a bookmark-making activity.
  • (19) The tool provides bookmarks, annotations, quotations, and other utilities across our entire HyperCard courseware collection.
  • (20) These folders of foreign newspaper and magazine clippings – with bookmarks in red for negative coverage of Russia, yellow for neutral and green for positive – were a major source of anxiety for Putin’s office in mid-2000s.

Pointer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, points.
  • (n.) The hand of a timepiece.
  • (n.) One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.
  • (n.) The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.
  • (n.) Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And Norris Cole hits a "good night everybody" three-pointer.
  • (2) These data, indicative of a relative inertness of physiological functions of nervous pointer dogs compared with normal pointers, are consistent with the behavioral and some of the biochemical findings previously reported.
  • (3) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
  • (4) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
  • (5) The system involves computer analysis and graphic display of vectors created from rotational and linear potentiometers that are activated by listeners using a hand-held pointer as they track an acoustic event.
  • (6) After a Renaldo Dixon layup made it a three-point game, the Aggies took advantage of a misplayed inbound pass from Xavier Thomas to gain possession, getting the ball to Kevin Aronis who made a game tying three-pointer with nine seconds left.
  • (7) Hence, the radiological correlate of the pseudo-obstruction of the colon is not specific, but it does supply a pointer to the disease of its shows dilation of the caecum, colon ascendens and colon transversum with air-pockets and reflected imaging as well as a usually not dilated colon descendens with remarkably little air.
  • (8) In Game Five, San Antonio's Manu Ginobili returned from the dead and Danny Green broke Ray Allen's NBA Finals record for made three-pointers while Allen was right there on the opposing bench.
  • (9) Elisabeth Afseth, bond market expert at Evolution Securities, reckons that the first pointer of a fresh credit crunch was returning could be seen on August 18 this year when the European Central Bank revealed that one bank had borrowed $500m for a week – as it could not find the money on the open market.
  • (10) Chapman's answer could be a pointer to the future of mass tourism.
  • (11) Photograph: Graphic South Africa Manager Carlos Alberto Parreira Fifa ranking 83 Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Uruguay Manager Oscar Tabárez Fifa ranking 16 Doubtful None Injured None Suspended Lodeiro Match pointers • Uruguay qualified for the knockout stage the last time they were managed by Oscar Tabárez at a World Cup (1990) • South Africa have won just two of their 13 encounters against South American opposition • Uruguay have managed just one win in their last 17 finals matches • Four of South Africa's last six World Cup finals games have been draws • Uruguay's only previous World Cup encounter against an African team was in 2002, drawing 3-3 with Senegal
  • (12) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
  • (13) Napier returned in the game's second half hitting a barrage of three-pointers against a stunned Villanova, eventually scoring 21 in the second half.
  • (14) 3.11am BST Heat 58-77 Spurs, end of the 3rd quarter LeBron James makes a three-pointer, which is good for Miami, but Tony Parker ends his game-long scoreless streak with a 17-foot basket.
  • (15) Tim Duncan responds with a two-point shot, but Rashard Lewis Can't Lose, makes a three-pointer here.
  • (16) Fever, pigmentation, and clubbing were also pointers to these two conditions.
  • (17) These findings are discussed in the context of the nervous pointer dog as a model for human anxiety disorders.
  • (18) LeBron James gives the ball to Ray Allen, and HE comes into the scoring action with a three-pointer.
  • (19) He called another team ­meeting yesterday and it is easy to imagine him going through all the same pointers as after the Chelsea game at Stamford Bridge 11 months ago.
  • (20) Overall, trials favour an effect in chronic active disease, and there are pointers to an effect in maintenance of remission.