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point
English
- 🔊 sharp end“he stuck the point of the knife into a tree”
- 🔊 a wall socket
- 🔊 the gun muzzle's direction“he held me up at the point of a gun”
- 🔊 an outstanding characteristic“his acting was one of the high points of the movie”
- 🔊 a distinguishing or individuating characteristic“he knows my bad points as well as my good points”
- 🔊 the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- 🔊 a geometric element that has position but no extension“a point is defined by its coordinates”
- 🔊 the object of an activity“what is the point of discussing it?”
- 🔊 a brief version of the essential meaning of something“get to the point”
- 🔊 a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer“the point of the arrow was due north”
- 🔊 the precise location of something“she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street”
- 🔊 a promontory extending out into a large body of water“they sailed south around the point”
- 🔊 one percent of the total principal of a loan
- 🔊 the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest“he scored 20 points in the first half”
- 🔊 a linear unit used to measure the size of type
- 🔊 a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- 🔊 a V shape“the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points”
- 🔊 a very small circular shape“a row of points”
- 🔊 an instant of time“at that point I had to leave”
- 🔊 a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list“he noticed an item in the New York Times”
- 🔊 a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations“in England they call a period a stop”
- 🔊 any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass“he checked the point on his compass”
- 🔊 a contact in the distributor
- 🔊 an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole“several of the details are similar”
- 🔊 the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- 🔊 a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process“a remarkable degree of frankness”
- 🔊 repair the joints of bricks“point a chimney”
- 🔊 indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle“the dog pointed the dead duck”
- 🔊 be positionable in a specified manner“The gun points with ease”
- 🔊 mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- 🔊 mark with diacritics“point the letter”
- 🔊 mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- 🔊 indicate a place, direction, person, or thing“I showed the customer the glove section”
- 🔊 sail close to the wind
- 🔊 be oriented“The weather vane points North”
- 🔊 give a point to“The candles are tapered”
- 🔊 direct into a position for use“point a gun”
- 🔊 be a signal for or a symptom of“These symptoms indicate a serious illness”
- 🔊 intend (something) to move towards a certain goal“He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face”
- 🔊 direct the course
Spanish
- 🔊 emboquillar to point
- 🔊 puntar to point, to mark with points
- 🔊 apuntar to point, to aim, to take aim (a weapon)