point

noun

  1. 1

    a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

  2. 2

    sharp end

    he stuck the point of the knife into a tree

    he broke the point of his pencil

  3. 3

    a wall socket

  4. 4

    the gun muzzle's direction

    he held me up at the point of a gun

  5. 5

    an outstanding characteristic

    his acting was one of the high points of the movie

  6. 6

    a distinguishing or individuating characteristic

    he knows my bad points as well as my good points

  7. 7

    the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip

  8. 8

    an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole

    several of the details are similar

    a point of information

  9. 9

    a geometric element that has position but no extension

    a point is defined by its coordinates

  10. 10

    the object of an activity

    what is the point of discussing it?

  11. 11

    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

  12. 12

    a brief version of the essential meaning of something

    get to the point

    he missed the point of the joke

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