Point

Noun

 * 1) A discrete division of something.
 * 2) An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
 * The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
 * 1) A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
 * There comes a point in a marathon when some people give up.
 * At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
 * 1)  Condition, state.
 * She was not feeling in good point.
 * 1) A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition, a focus of conversation or consideration.
 * I made the point that we all had an interest to protect.
 * 1)  The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
 * full large of limbe and euery ioint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point.
 * 1)  A tiny amount of time; a moment.
 * 2) A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
 * We should meet at a pre-arranged point.
 * 1)  A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
 * 2) A purpose or objective.
 * Since the decision has already been made, I see little point in further discussion.
 * 1) A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
 * 2) A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
 * Logic isn't my strong point.
 * 1) Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
 * The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
 * 1)  A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
 * Possession is nine points of the law.
 * 1) Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
 * 2)  A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
 * The one with the most points will win the game
 * 1)  A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
 * 10.5 ("ten point five"; = ten and a half)
 * 1)  A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
 * 2)  a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
 * 3)  An electric power socket.
 * 4) A sharp extremity.
 * 5) The sharp tip of an object.
 * Cut the skin with the point of the knife.
 * 1) Any projecting extremity of an object.
 * 2) An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
 * His cowboy belt was studded with points.
 * 1)  Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
 * 2) A peninsula or promontory.
 * 3) The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
 * 4) * 2005, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0-7432-3011-6, page 189:
 * 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.
 * 1) Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
 * 2) Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
 * 3) *1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
 * 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?"
 * 1)   A railroad switch.
 * 2)  An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
 * The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
 * 1)  A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.

Synonyms

 * location, place, position, spot
 * moment, time
 * end, tip
 * decimal point (name of the symbol; not used when reading decimal fractions aloud)
 * opinion, point of view, view, viewpoint
 * mark
 * (colo(u)r of extremities of an animal):
 * (colo(u)r of extremities of an animal):

Derived terms

 * accidental point
 * accumulation point
 * ballpoint
 * basepoint
 * basis point
 * beside the point
 * boiling point
 * boundary point
 * branch point
 * break point
 * Brownie point
 * bullet point
 * cardinal point
 * case in point
 * cashpoint
 * closest point of approach
 * cloud point
 * coincidence point
 * commit point
 * compass point
 * consolute point
 * critical point
 * data point
 * decimal point
 * deep point
 * demerit point
 * dew point
 * Didot point
 * double point
 * dropping point
 * dry point, drypoint
 * endpoint
 * entry point
 * entry point for the eye
 * eutectic point
 * experience point
 * fixed point
 * fixed-point
 * flash point
 * floating-point
 * focal point
 * freezing point
 * game point
 * get the point
 * get to the point


 * gunpoint
 * hit points
 * hollow point
 * inflection point
 * in point of fact
 * isoelectric point
 * isolated point
 * knifepoint
 * limit point
 * make a point
 * match point
 * melting point
 * midpoint
 * moot point
 * needlepoint
 * nip point
 * one-point perspective
 * on point
 * on the point of
 * ordinary point
 * outpoint
 * percentage point
 * Pica point
 * pointable
 * point bar
 * point blank
 * point break
 * point cloud
 * point duty
 * pointed
 * pointed


 * point function
 * point group
 * point-in-line
 * pointless


 * point mass
 * point mutation
 * point of articulation
 * point-of-care imaging
 * point of contact
 * point of fact
 * point of inevitability
 * point of inflection, point of inflexion
 * point of no return
 * point of order


 * point of pride
 * point of reference
 * point of sale
 * point of the compass
 * point of view
 * point set
 * point source
 * point taken
 * pointwise
 * pointy
 * power point
 * pressure point
 * reference point
 * seal point
 * set point
 * silly point
 * single point of failure
 * singular point
 * skill point
 * sore point
 * standpoint
 * starting point
 * stationary point
 * sticking point
 * take someone's point
 * talking point
 * three-point line
 * three-point perspective
 * three-point turn
 * tipping point
 * to the point
 * trig point
 * triple point
 * transition point
 * turning point
 * two-point perspective
 * vanishing point
 * vantage point
 * waypoint
 * what’s the point?
 * zero point
 * zero-point energy

Related terms

 * appoint
 * pointillism
 * punctilious


 * punctual
 * punctuate
 * punctuation

Verb

 * 1)  To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
 * It's rude to point at other people.
 * 1)  To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
 * The arrow of a compass points north
 * The skis were pointing uphill.
 * The arrow on the map points towards the entrance
 * 1)  To repair mortar.
 * 2)  To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction
 * If he asks for food, point him toward the refrigerator.
 * 1)  To repair by removing and replacing loose mortar.
 * 2)  To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
 * 3)  To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.

Derived terms

 * point at
 * pointer
 * point out


 * point the finger
 * repoint

Verbs for Point
(feature, issue, question, etc.)

admit—; allow—; attend to—; carry—; concede—; debate—; dispose of—; dodge—; drive home—; dwell on—; emphasize—; grant—; illustrate—; interrogate—; labor —; miss—; pursue—; reinforce—; rule on —; settle—; stress—; sympathize on—; — illustrates; —s interlock.

Adjectives for Point
(general)

standard; essential; peevish; standing; transitional; original; sore; favorable; vulnerable; geographical;  objective;  delicate; varying; vindictive; fundamental; advantageous; knotty; statistical; luminous; trivial; weighty; crucial; rallying; superficial; physical; culminating; controverted; dazzling; desired; fiery; inconsiderable; sentimental; thuorny; unsavory; noteworthy; narrow; mooted; burning; converging; unguarded; significant; well-selected; worldly; practical; inhuman; chivalric; principal; systematic; pivotal; assailable; prominent; equinoctial; strategic; contrary; suggestive; radiant; favorable; slippery; salient; aesthetic; artistic; remote; material; corrective; designated; matrimonial; elevated; indecomposable; critical; exposed; statistical; disputed; changeless; home-coming; pathetic; conceded; preconceived; minute; projecting; crowning; bitter; unimportant; knotty; decisive; sandy; epigrammatic; rallying; preliminary; characteristic; supreme; saturation; absurd; terminal; contentious; dubious; heterodox; unendurable; stagnant; impressive; dangerous; intangible; inappreciable; restricted; cardinal; determin-able; ludicrous; speculative; ample; technical ; yawning. \

Adverbs for Point
triumphantly; mysteriously;  significantly; timidly; conclusively; mournfully; excitedly; scornfully; directly; peevishly; ludicrously.

Thesaurus
L, Thule, Ultima Thule, abode, accent, accentuate, ace, acerbity, acidity, acme, acridity, acrimony, aculeate, aculeus, acuminate, acumination, address, advance guard, advantage, affective meaning, aim, aim at, airhead, allude to, ambition, amount, analyze, ancestor, angle, animus, announcer, antecedent, antler, apex, apogee, applicability, applicable, application, apposite, appropriate, appropriateness, apropos, apt, area, article, as regards, ascender, aspect, aspiration, astringency, atom, attribute, auger, avail, avant-garde, awl, ax, azimuth, back, barb, barbed wire, barblet, barbule, barbwire, basis, bastard type, battle line, beachhead, bear, beard, bearing, bearings, behalf, behoof, bellwether, belly, belly laugh, bench mark, bend, bend to, benefit, bent, beside the point, bevel, bias, bifurcation, bight, bill, birthmark, bit, bite, bitter end, bitterness, black letter, blade, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, blue story, bodkin, body, borer, bottom, bottom dollar, boundary, bracket, bradawl, brand, breakwater, bridgehead, bring up, brink, brow, buccinator, burden, burin, bushwhacker, butt, butt end, caesura, caliber, call attention to, caltrop, cant, cap, cape, capital, cardinal point, carpet tack, case, cast, caste mark, causticity, chalk, chalk up, chapter, character, characteristic, check, check off, checkmark, chersonese, cheval-de-frise, chevron, chief thing, chisel, cicatrix, cicatrize, circumstantial, circumstantiality, climax, cloud nine, cockspur, coin, cold steel, colon, coloring, comma, compass, concern, concerning, conduce, conjugate, connotation, consideration, constituent, contribute, convenience, coral reef, core, corner, cornerstone, counsel, count, counter, course, crank, crest, crisis, critical point, crook, crotchet, crown, crumb, crux, culmen, culmination, current, cusp, cuspidate, cut, cutlery, cutter, dab, dagger, dapple, dash, datum, day, decimal point, decline, define, deflection, degree, delimit, delta, demarcate, denotation, descend, descender, desideration, desideratum, design, designate, desire, detail, details, determination, determine, diacritical mark, dibble, die, direct, direct attention to, direction, direction line, directionize, dirty joke, dirty story, discolor, discoloration, dispose, district, dogleg, dole, dot, double entendre, dram, dribble, driblet, drift, drill, drop, droplet, dwarf, earmark, edge, edge tools, effect, elbow, element, ell, em, emphasize, emplacement, en, end stop, engrave, engraving, engraving tool, entity, essence, essential, essential matter, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, ethnic joke, exhibit, explorer, extension, extent, extreme, extreme limit, extremity, face, facet, fact, factor, fag end, farthest bound, farthest outpost, farthing, fat-faced type, fateful moment, feature, feet, fid, fierceness, file, first line, fishhook, fitting, fix, fix on, fixed purpose, fleck, flick, flyspeck, focus, focus of attention, focus of interest, font, force, forebear, forefront, foregoer, foreland, forerunner, fork, fragment, freckle, front line, front rank, front runner, front-runner, frontiersman, fugleman, full stop, fun, function, fundamental, funny story, furcation, gaff, gag, gash, germane, gimlet, gist, gnat, go, goad, goal, gobbet, good one, good story, grade, grain, grammatical meaning, granule, gravamen, graver, graving, gravitate, great point, grind, grip, groat, groove, groundbreaker, guide, guts, hack, hair, handful, harbinger, harpoon, harshness, hat pin, hatch, have a tendency, head, heading, headland, heart, heaven, heavens, height, helmsmanship, herald, high noon, high point, highest pitch, highest point, hilltop, hint, hold a heading, hold on, hole, hone, hook, horn, hour, howler, hyphenate, icepick, idea, identify, immaterial, impact, implication, imply, import, important thing, impress, imprint, in point of, in reference to, inappropriate, inapt, incidental, inclination, incline, inconsequential, indicate, individual, inflect, inflection, innovator, instance, instant, intaglio, integer, intendment, intension, intent, intention, interest, interval, iota, irrelevant, issue, italic, item, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, jot, jumping-off place, juncture, kairos, keenness, kernel, keystone, knee, knife, knoll, lance, lancet, landmark, latitude and longitude, laugh, lay, lead, lead runner, leader, lean, leap, lentigo, letter, level, level at, lexical meaning, lie, lieu, ligature, limit, line, line of direction, line of march, literal meaning, little, little bit, living issue, locale, locality, location, locus, lofty peak, logotype, look to, lower case, macula, main point, main thing, majuscule, make a mark, malapropos, mallet, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, marlinespike, material, material point, matter, matter in hand, maximum, meaning, measure, meat, mention, meridian, messenger, microbe, microorganism, midge, milestone, mind, minim, minimum, minor detail, minuscule, minute, minutia, minutiae, mite, modeling clay, modicum, module, mole, molecule, moment, moment of truth, mordacity, mordancy, mote, motif, motive, mottle, mountaintop, mucro, mull, nail, naked steel, navigation, naze, ne plus ultra, neb, needle, ness, nevus, nib, nicety, nick, nisus, no place higher, nook, noon, notch, notion, nuance, nub, nucleus, nutshell, object, objective, oilstone, orientation, ounce, outguard, outpost, overtone, oxgoad, panic, parenthesize, parse, part, particle, particular, pas, patch, pathfinder, pause, peak, pebble, peg, pencil, peninsula, pepper, percentage, period, person, persona, pertinence, pertinent, pi, pic, pica, pico, piece of advice, pigsticker, pike, piloting, pin, pinch, pinhead, pinnacle, pinpoint, pioneer, pitch, pitchfork, pith, pittance, pivot, place, place emphasis on, placement, plan, plane, plateau, play, plunge, poignancy, point at, point at issue, point in question, point out, point to, point up, pointer, pointless, pole, polka dot, position, precedent, precipice, precipitate, precursor, predecessor, pregnant moment, present, prick, prickle, print, problem, profit, project, projection, promontory, prong, property, proportion, proposal, prospectus, psychological moment, punch, punctuate, punctuation, punctuation marks, puncture, puncturer, purport, purpose, quality, quarter, question, quiddity, quill, quoin, railhead, range, range of meaning, ratio, reach, real issue, real meaning, redound to, reef, reference, reference mark, referent, regard, regarding, region, relation, relevance, relevant, remind, remove, reset, resolution, resolve, respect, rib tickler, riddle, ridge, rigor, riot, rocker, roman, roughness, round, rowel, rubric, run, rung, sake, salient point, sandspit, sans serif, say, scale, scar, scarification, scarify, scope, score, scorper, scotch, scout, scrap, scratch, scratching, scream, script, scruple, seal, seam, season, semantic cluster, semantic field, semicolon, sense, serve, service, set, set toward, settle, seventh heaven, severity, shade, shadow, shank, sharpen, sharpener, sharpness, shoulder, show, show a tendency, sick joke, side, sidesplitter, sight gag, sight on, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, sine qua non, single, single out, singleton, sink, site, situation, situs, skewer, sky, small cap, small capital, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, solder, soldering iron, something, soul, space, span, span of meaning, spatula, spearhead, specifics, speck, speckle, spell, spiculate, spicule, spiculum, spike, spine, spire, spirit, spit, splash, splotch, spoonful, sport, spot, spotlight, spur, stage, stain, stair, stamp, standard, staple, station, stead, steel, steer, steerage, steering, stem, step, stigma, stigmatize, sting, stint, stop, stormy petrel, story, strap, strawberry mark, streak, stress, stretch, striate, stridency, stringency, stripe, striving, strop, structural meaning, stub, study, stump, style, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, subside, substance, substantive point, suggest, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, summit, swerve, sword, symbolic meaning, tack, tactic, tag, tag end, tail, tail end, tally, tang, taper, tartness, tattoo, tattoo mark, teeth, tend, tend to go, tendency, tenor, text, the bottom line, the point, theme, thimbleful, thing, thought, thrust, thumbtack, tick, tick off, time, time lag, tine, tiny bit, tip, tip-top, tittle, to the point, toad sticker, tongue, top, topic, tor, totality of associations, trace, track, trailblazer, trailbreaker, train, train upon, trait, transferred meaning, tread, trenchancy, trend, trifling amount, trivia, turn, turn upon, turning point, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, unadorned meaning, underline, underscore, undertone, unimportant, unit, upmost, upper case, upper extremity, uppermost, use, utmost, value, van, vanguard, vanishing point, vaunt-courier, veer, vehemence, verge, vertex, very top, view, violence, virulence, visual joke, voortrekker, warp, watermark, way, wheeze, whereabout, whereabouts, whet, while, whit, whittle, will, with respect to, work toward, worth, wow, yarn, zag, zenith, zig, zigzag

Etymology
From point:, from  point:, from  punctum:, prop. a hole punched in, substantive use of punctus:, perfect passive participle of pungo:. Displaced native ord "point" (from  ord "point").

Noun

 * Finnish: yksityiskohta


 * Armenian: պահ
 * Czech: okamžik
 * Dutch: punt
 * Finnish: piste, vaihe
 * French: point, détail
 * German: Punkt, Zeitpunkt
 * Greek: στιγμή


 * Hungarian: pont
 * Irish: pointe ama, tráth
 * Polish: chwila, moment
 * Romanian: punct
 * Russian: момент
 * Scottish Gaelic: àm


 * Finnish: kunto


 * French: point


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Polish: punkt widzenia
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:


 * Finnish: rahtu, hitunen


 * Finnish: hetki


 * French: instant


 * Arabic: (máuqiʕ)
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: puncto


 * Irish: áit
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 点 (てん, ten)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: punto de encuentro
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Arabic: (núqṭa)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 点 (diǎn)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: pointe
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 先 (さき, saki)
 * Korean: 점 (jeom)
 * Persian: نقطه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: pün


 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: mieli, järki


 * French: but, objectif


 * Finnish: piste
 * French: point


 * German: Punkt
 * Spanish: punto


 * Finnish: puoli


 * French: point


 * Finnish: piste


 * French: point


 * Finnish: kymmenys


 * Finnish: piste


 * French: point


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: միավոր
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: pointe
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Note: many languages use a comma (',') rather than a dot as a decimal point, and hence the translations into these languages reflect this.


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ; piste
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: tizedesvessző, tizedespont
 * Irish: pointe, pointe deachúlach


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 点 (てん, ten)
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:


 * Finnish: piste


 * French: point


 * Finnish: piste


 * French: point


 * Finnish: pistorasia, sähköpiste


 * French: prise, prise électrique


 * Armenian: ,
 * Chamicuro:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua: puncta
 * Irish: bior, rinn


 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Polish: czubek,, szpic
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: konica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * !Xóõ: ǀʻám


 * Finnish: kärki


 * French: pointe


 * Finnish: piikki


 * French: pointe


 * Finnish:


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, niemenkärki, nokka
 * French: péninsule


 * Greek:
 * Polish: cypel
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: rinn, rinn compáis, aird an chompáis


 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish: vaihde


 * French: aiguillage, aiguille


 * Finnish: pilkku


 * Irish: pointe, ponc


 * : pinto of a pointed star
 * : punto

Verb

 * Armenian: մատնացույց անել
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Ido: Pintar
 * Interlingua: indicar


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: apontar para, indicar
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: peka på


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: osoittaa
 * Polish:


 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: peka, peka ut

Anagrams

 * opt in, opt-in
 * pinot
 * pinto
 * piton

Noun

 * 1)  (small mark)
 * 2) full stop, period
 * 1) full stop, period

Derived terms

 * à point
 * point de côté


 * point de vue
 * pointer
 * un point c'est tout

Adverb
ne ...


 * 1)  not
 * Ne craignez point - Fear not

Synonyms

 * pas

Etymology
poinct:, from punctus:

Anagrams

 * piton