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say it: poynt
point is a noun and verb meaning "a geometric element that has position but no extension". It is pronounced /ˈpɔɪnt/ — poynt. It carries 40 recorded senses.
a geometric element that has position but no extension
“a point is defined by its coordinates”
the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
“she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street”
a brief version of the essential meaning of something
“get to the point”
“he missed the point of the joke”
“life has lost its point”
an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
“several of the details are similar”
“a point of information”
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 instant of time
“at that point I had to leave”
a V shape
“the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points”
the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
“he scored 20 points in the first half”
“a touchdown counts 6 points”
a promontory extending out into a large body of water
“they sailed south around the point”
a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
an outstanding characteristic
“his acting was one of the high points of the movie”
any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
“he checked the point on his compass”
a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
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 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”
the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
“he knows my bad points as well as my good points”
a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
“the dog pointed the dead duck”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for point come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.