point Definition - English Dictionary | point Explanations and Pronunciations

NounPLpoints

A discrete division of something.
1. The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
2. There comesi a point in a marathon when some people give up.
3. At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
4. She was not feeling in good point.
5. I made the point that we all had an interest to protect.
6. full large of limbe and euery ioint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point.
7. When time's first point begun / Made he all souls.
8. We should meet at a pre-arranged point.
9. Since the decision has already been made, I see little point in further discussion.
10. Commas and points they set exactly right.
11. Sound the trumpet — not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war.
12. Logic isn't my strong point.
13. The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
14. Possession is nine points of the law.
15. The one with the most points will win the game
16. 10.5 ("ten point five"; = ten and a half)
17. Ship ahoy, three points off the starboard bow!

A sharp extremity.

Cut the skin with the point of the knife.
His cowboy belt was studded with points.
Willie Jones decided to become Kimani Jones, Black Panther, on the day his best friend, Otis Nicholson, stepped on a mine while walking point during a sweep in the central highlands.
to fall off a point
There was moreover a hint of the duchess in the infinite point with which, as she felt, she exclaimed: "And this is what you call coming often?"
The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
tierce point

(heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.

(nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.

(historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.

Lace worked by the needle.

point de Venise; Brussels point

(US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.

The dog came to a point.

(falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.

The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.

(medicine) OBS A vaccine point.

In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.

VerbSGpointsPRpointingPT, PPpointed

VI To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

VI To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

VI To face in a particular direction.

VT To direct toward an object; to aim.

to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort

To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.

to point a dart, a pencil, or (figuratively) a moral

VI to indicate a probability of something.

Tens of thousands of Portuguese, Greek and Irish people have left their homelands this year, many heading for the southern hemisphere. Anecdotal evidence points to the same happening in Spain and Italy.

VT VI (masonry) To repair mortar.

VT (masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

(stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

VT To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.

If he asks for food, point him toward the refrigerator. ‎

VT (mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.

VT To mark with diacritics.

(dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.

to point a composition

VT (computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.

VT (Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.

VI (nautical) To sail close to the wind.

Bear off a little, we're pointing. ‎

VI (hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

(medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.

OBS To appoint.

(dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

More Examples

Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Yet he faced his foemen with dauntless courage, dashing in, springing back, sure-footed, steady-handed, with a point which seemed to menace three at once.
- The head of the compass needle is pointing due north.
- We obtained the 3D B-spline curve passing through these points to reparameterize the curve based on its chord length.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Caspase-3 activity differed between 7 and 21 days post SCH (Figure 3c), falling to prelesion values at the last time point.
- At half past nine, with the booming drums of the parade sounding up the street, the shivering form of Dwindle Daniels was again sogged down to its original saturation point.
- New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.

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