Point (Noun)
Meaning 1
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.
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Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
Meaning 2
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?".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 3
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".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 4
A distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Meaning 5
The gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 6
An outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 7
A very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots".
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Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
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Meaning 8
The dot at the left of a decimal fraction.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 9
An instant of time; "at that point I had to leave".
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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
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Meaning 10
A style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect.
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Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
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Meaning 11
A linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch.
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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
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Meaning 12
The property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip.
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 14
The unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points".
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Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
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Meaning 15
The object of an activity; "what is the point of discussing it?".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 16
The precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 17
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 18
A promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point".
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Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
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Meaning 19
Any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass".
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Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
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- East By North
- Southwest By West
- Southwest By South
- Northeast By East
- West By South
- Southeastward
- Northeast By North
- Northeast
- East Northeast
- South By East
- North By West
- Southeast By South
- Southwest
- Northwest
- SSW
- NNW
- NE
- West By North
- West Northwest
- SW
- South Southwest
- SE
- North Northwest
- Northwestward
- North Northeast
- NNE
- SSE
- Southeast By East
- Southwestward
- NW
- Southeast
- East Southeast
- North By East
- Northwest By North
- South By West
- West Southwest
- Northeastward
- Cardinal Compass Point
- South Southeast
- Northwest By West
- East By South
Meaning 20
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".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 21
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".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 22
Sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 23
A geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is defined by its coordinates".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 24
A V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 25
A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs.
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 26
A V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points".
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Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.