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"The weather vane points North" "the dancers toes pointed outward"verbbe oriented
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"point a chimney"verbrepair the joints of bricks
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"he checked the point on his compass"nounany of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
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"Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"verbbe a signal for or a symptom oftype of:
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nouna specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a processtype of:
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"the main point on the agenda was taken up first"nouna distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
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"his acting was one of the high points of the movie"nounan outstanding characteristic
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"the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"nouna V shapetype of:
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nouna contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
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nounthe dot at the left of a decimal fraction
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"point a gun"verbdirect into a position for use
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"He pointed to the empty parking space"verbindicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figurativelytype of:
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"he held me up at the point of a gun"nounthe gun muzzle's direction
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"the point of the arrow was due north"nouna V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
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"a point of information"nounan isolated fact that is considered separately from the wholetype of:
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nouna wall socket
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"at that point I had to leave"nounan instant of time
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"a row of points"nouna very small circular shape
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verbdirect the course; determine the direction of travelling
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verbgive a point totype of:
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verbintend (something) to move towards a certain goal
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nouna punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
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"get to the point" "he missed the point of the joke" "life has lost its point"nouna brief version of the essential meaning of somethingtype of:
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"he knows my bad points as well as my good points"nouna distinguishing or individuating characteristictype of:
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"a point is defined by its coordinates"nouna geometric element that has position but no extensiontype of:
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nouna linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inchtype of:
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"they sailed south around the point"nouna promontory extending out into a large body of watertype of:
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nouna style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
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"The gun points with ease"verbbe positionable in a specified mannertype of:
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"the dog pointed the dead duck"verbindicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
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verbmark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
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verbmark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
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"point the letter"verbmark with diacritics
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nounone 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 loantype of:
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"he stuck the point of the knife into a tree" "he broke the point of his pencil"nounsharp end
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"what is the point of discussing it?"nounthe object of an activity
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"she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"nounthe precise location of something; a spatially limited locationtype of:
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"he scored 20 points in the first half" "a touchdown counts 6 points"nounthe unit of counting in scoring a game or contesttype of:part of:
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