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English - English Dict (Wordnet)
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Noun - a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- the gun muzzle's direction
- he held me up at the point of a gun
- 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
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the point of the arrow was due north
- 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
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- he checked the point on his compass
- sharp end
- he stuck the point of the knife into a tree
- he broke the point of his pencil
- an outstanding characteristic
- his acting was one of the high points of the movie
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- 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
- she had several items on her shopping list
- the main point on the agenda was taken up first
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- they sailed south around the point
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- he scored 20 points in the first half
- a touchdown counts 6 points
- a very small circular shape
- draw lines between the dots
- a V shape
- the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points
- the object of an activity
- what is the point of discussing it?
- an instant of time
- at that point I had to leave
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a remarkable degree of frankness
- at what stage are the social sciences?
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- several of the details are similar
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- he missed the point of the joke
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- a point is defined by its coordinates
Verb - repair the joints of bricks
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- the dog pointed the dead duck
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face
- criticism directed at her superior
- direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself
- be positionable in a specified manner
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- These symptoms indicate a serious illness
- Her behavior points to a severe neurosis
- The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- direct into a position for use
- He charged his weapon at me
- be oriented
- The weather vane points North
- the dancers toes pointed outward
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- I showed the customer the glove section
- He pointed to the empty parking space
- he indicated his opponents
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