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Point (Noun)

Meaning¹

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.

Classification

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.

Meaning²

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?".

Meaning³

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".

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

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Point (verb)

Meaning⁴

A distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points".

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Meaning⁵

The gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun".

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Point (verb)

Meaning⁶

An outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie".

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Meaning⁷

A very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots".

Classification

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.

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Point (verb)

Meaning⁸

The dot at the left of a decimal fraction.

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Meaning⁹

An instant of time; "at that point I had to leave".

Classification

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.

Meaning¹⁰

A style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect.

Classification

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.

Meaning¹¹

A linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch.

Classification

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.

Meaning¹²

The property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip.

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

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Point (verb)

Meaning¹⁴

The unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points".

Classification

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.

Meaning¹⁵

The object of an activity; "what is the point of discussing it?".

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Meaning¹⁶

The precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street".

Meaning¹⁷

An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information".

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Meaning¹⁸

A promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point".

Classification

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).

Meaning¹⁹

Any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass".

Classification

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.

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".