Dictionary Entry
point
point is a 5-letter English word with 81 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To appoint. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 81 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive/intransitive verb
To appoint.
- 2noun
That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.
- 3noun
An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer.
- 4noun
Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.
- 5noun
The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick.
- 6noun
An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.
- 7noun
An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.
- 8noun
A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.
- 9noun
Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints.
- 10noun
That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc.
- 11noun
Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.
- 12noun
A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.
- 13noun
A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time
- 14noun
A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune.
- 15noun
A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes.
- 16noun
A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal.
- 17noun
One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.
- 18noun
One of the points of the compass (See Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.
- 19noun
A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef.
- 20noun
A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.
- 21noun
Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.
- 22noun
A switch.
- 23noun
An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
- 24noun
A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.
- 25noun
The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.
- 26noun
A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.
- 27noun
A tyne or snag of an antler.
- 28noun
One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
- 29noun
A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.
- 30noun
To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.
- 31noun
To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.
- 32noun
Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.
- 33noun
To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.
- 34noun
To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points.
- 35noun
To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.
- 36noun
To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.
- 37noun
To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- 38noun
To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- 39intransitive verb
To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at.
- 40intransitive verb
To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- 41intransitive verb
To approximate to the surface; to head; -- said of an abscess.
- 42noun
a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
- 43noun
sharp end
"he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"
"he broke the point of his pencil"
- 44noun
a wall socket
- 45noun
the gun muzzle's direction
"he held me up at the point of a gun"
Synonyms
- 46noun
an outstanding characteristic
"his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
Synonyms
- 47noun
a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
"he knows my bad points as well as my good points"
- 48noun
the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
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- 49noun
an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
"several of the details are similar"
"a point of information"
- 50noun
a geometric element that has position but no extension
"a point is defined by its coordinates"
- 51noun
the object of an activity
"what is the point of discussing it?"
- 52noun
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"
Synonyms
- 53noun
a brief version of the essential meaning of something
"get to the point"
"he missed the point of the joke"
- 54noun
the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- 55noun
a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
"the point of the arrow was due north"
Synonyms
- 56noun
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"
- 57noun
the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
"she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
- 58noun
a promontory extending out into a large body of water
"they sailed south around the point"
- 59noun
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
- 60noun
the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
"he scored 20 points in the first half"
"a touchdown counts 6 points"
- 61noun
a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- 62noun
a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- 63noun
any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
"he checked the point on his compass"
- 64noun
a V shape
"the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"
- 65noun
a very small circular shape
"a row of points"
"draw lines between the dots"
Synonyms
- 66noun
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?"
- 67noun
an instant of time
"at that point I had to leave"
- 68verb
repair the joints of bricks
"point a chimney"
Synonyms
- 69verb
give a point to
"The candles are tapered"
- 70verb
be a signal for or a symptom of
"These symptoms indicate a serious illness"
"Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"
- 71verb
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"
- 72verb
indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
"the dog pointed the dead duck"
- 73verb
intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
"He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"
"criticism directed at her superior"
- 74verb
direct into a position for use
"point a gun"
"He charged his weapon at me"
- 75verb
be positionable in a specified manner
"The gun points with ease"
- 76verb
mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- 77verb
mark with diacritics
"point the letter"
- 78verb
mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- 79verb
sail close to the wind
Synonyms
- 80verb
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- 81verb
be oriented
"The weather vane points North"
"the dancers toes pointed outward"
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