Signbank

1. The action of pointing with the index finger, or any thing the pointing action can be understood as pointing at, indicating or indexing, including any direction or movement in the direction of the vector of the pointing action.

1. Extending one’s hand and index finger so that the tip of the index finger is directed to a particular (real or imaginary) location or to a particular (real or imaginary) thing which is, or could be construed to be, at that location. English = pointing, point.

1. To extend one’s hand and index finger so that the tip of the index finger is directed to a particular (real or imaginary) location or to a particular (real or imaginary) thing which is, or could be construed to be, at that location. English = point.

1. The pointing action has multiple functions in Auslan and other signed languages. Many of these are given their own separate entries in this dictionary when—depending on the direction of the point—they are regularly associated with particular referents or types of referents so strongly that they are lexicalised as the sign for that thing (e.g., ‘nose’), or have a grammatical function that covers individual and unique English grammatical words in those contexts (e.g., pronouns, adverbs of location, directionals). These other functions can be found as matches to particular keyword searches, such as ‘me’, ‘you’, ‘she’, ‘upwards’, ‘there’, and so on.