POINT - Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
Point (point), v. t. & i. To appoint. [Obs.]
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Point, n. [F.
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2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's
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3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.
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4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick.
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5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.
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6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.
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When time's first
Made he all souls.
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7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.
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And there a
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Commas and
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8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. “A
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A lord full fat and in good
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9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc.
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He told him,
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In
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Shalt thou dispute
With Him the
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10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. “Here lies the
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They will hardly prove his
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11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.
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This fellow doth not stand upon
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[He] cared not for God or man a
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12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; as:
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13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See
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14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See
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15. (Naut.)
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16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.
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17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.
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19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.]
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20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.
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21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See
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22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See
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23. A tyne or snag of an antler.
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24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
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25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.
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26. (Med.) A pointed piece of quill or bone covered at one end with vaccine matter; -- called also vaccine point.
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27. One of the raised dots used in certain systems of printing and writing for the blind. The first practical system was that devised by
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&hand_; The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc.
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