point
英 [p??nt]
美[p??nt]
- 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