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point

英 [pɒɪnt]美[pɔɪnt]
  • n. 要点;得分;标点;[机] 尖端
  • vt. 指向;弄尖;加标点于
  • vi. 表明;指向
  • n. (Point)人名;(法)普安

英英释意


1. a geometric element that has position but no extension;
"a point is defined by its coordinates"
2. the precise location of something; a spatially limited location;
"she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
3. 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"
4. 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?"
5. an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;
"several of the details are similar"
"a point of information"
6. an instant of time;
"at that point I had to leave"
7. the object of an activity;
"what is the point of discussing it?"
8. a V shape;
"the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"
9. a very small circular shape;
"a row of points"
"draw lines between the dots"
10. the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest;
"he scored 20 points in the first half"
"a touchdown counts 6 points"
11. a promontory extending out into a large body of water;
"they sailed south around the point"
12. 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"
13. a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
14. an outstanding characteristic;
"his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
15. sharp end;
"he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"
"he broke the point of his pencil"
16. any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass;
"he checked the point on his compass"
17. a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
18. 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"
19. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;
"the point of the arrow was due north"
20. the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp point
21. a distinguishing or individuating characteristic;
"he knows my bad points as well as my good points"
22. the gun muzzle's direction;
"he held me up at the point of a gun"
23. a wall socket
24. a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts distributor points and current flows to the spark plugs
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