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points

/point/US // pɔɪnt //UK // (pɔɪnt) //

点,分数,积分,点数

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
    • : a projecting part of anything: A point of land juts into the bay.
    • : a tapering extremity: the points of the fingers.
    • : something having a sharp or tapering end: a pen point.
    • : a pointed tool or instrument, as an etching needle.
    • : a stone implement with a tapering end found in some Middle and Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures and used primarily for hunting.
    • : a mark made with or as if with the sharp end of something: Her sharp heels left points in the carpet.
    • : any mark of punctuation, especially a period.
    • : decimal point: Numerically, “three point thirty-six” is written as 3.36, which is only slightly greater in value than three and a third.
    • : Phonetics. a diacritic indicating a vowel or other modification of sound.
    • : one of the embossed dots used in certain systems of writing and printing for the blind.
    • : something that has position but not extension, as the intersection of two lines.
    • : a place of which the position alone is considered; spot: We're leaving for Chicago and points west.
    • : any definite position, as in a scale, course, etc.: the boiling point.
    • : a particular spot on the body at which a needle may be inserted, as to relieve pain.
    • : Navigation. any of 32 separate horizontal directions, 11° 15′ apart, as indicated on the card of a compass or gauged with reference to the heading of a vessel.
    • : Nautical.Also called point of sail·ing . the bearing of a sailing vessel, considered with relation to the direction of the wind.
    • : a degree or stage: frankness to the point of insult.
    • : a particular instant of time: It was at that point that I told him he'd said enough.
    • : a critical position in a course of affairs: Morale had reached a low point.
    • : a decisive state of circumstances: He reached the point where he could no longer pay his debts.
    • : the important or essential thing: the point of the matter.
    • : the salient feature of a story, epigram, joke, etc.: to miss the point.
    • : a particular aim, end, or purpose: He carried his point.
    • : a hint or suggestion: points on getting a job.
    • : a single or separate article or item, as in an extended whole; a detail or particular: the fine points of a contract.
    • : an individual part or element of something: noble points in her character.
    • : a distinguishing mark or quality, especially one of an animal, used as a standard in stockbreeding, judging, etc.
    • : points, the external features of an animal, especially a horse or dog, that make up its conformation: Besides the withers, pastern, and barrel, how many points of the horse can you identify?
    • : a single unit, as in counting.
    • : a unit of count in the score of a game: Our team won by five points.
    • : the number that must be thrown to win but not including 7 or 11 on the first roll: Your point is 4.
    • : Ice Hockey. either of two positions, to the right or left of the goal, to which an attacking defenseman is assigned, usually in the execution of a power play, to help keep the puck in the attacking zone.
    • : Basketball. a position in the front court, usually taken by the guard in charge of setting up the team's offense.
    • : Cricket. the position of the fielder who plays a short distance in front of and to the offside of the batsman.the fielder playing this position.
    • : Chiefly Boxing. the end or tip.
    • : Hunting. the action of a hunting dog that indicates the presence and location of game by standing rigid and directing its head toward the game.the position taken by a hunting dog in pointing game.
    • : a branch of an antler of a deer: an eight-point buck.
    • : Sports. a cross-country run.
    • : one of the narrow tapering spaces marked on a backgammon board.
    • : Education. a single credit, usually corresponding to an hour's class work per week for one semester.
    • : Electricity. Also called break·er point .either of a pair of contacts tipped with tungsten or platinum that make or break current flow in a distributor, as in an automobile.British.an outlet or socket.
    • : Commerce. a unit of price quotation, as in the U.S., one dollar in stock transactions, one hundredth of a cent in cotton and coffee, or one cent in oil, grain, pork, etc.: The price of the stock went up two points today. a percentage point, usually of the gross profits, granted to someone who agrees to invest or otherwise participate in a business project: The star of the movie received a million dollar guarantee and five points.
    • : any of various units used to award credit, benefits, or penalties:You will get points on your license for certain traffic violations. Earn points every time you use the credit card at restaurants.
    • : one percent of the face value of a loan, especially a mortgage loan, added on as a placement fee or a service charge and paid in advance or upon closing of the loan.
    • : Jewelry. a unit of weight equal to 1/100 of a carat.
    • : Military. a patrol or reconnaissance unit that goes ahead of the advance party of an advance guard, or follows the rear party of the rear guard.the stroke in bayonet drill or combat.
    • : Printing. a unit of type measurement in the U.S. and U.K. equal to 1/72 inch, or 1/12 pica.Compare Didot point system. Also called press-point . one of several metal prongs for perforating the sheet so that it will be in register when the reverse is printed.
    • : a unit of measure of paper or card thickness, equal to 0.001 inch.
    • : Medicine/Medical.Also called vac·cine point . a thin, pointed, vaccine-coated piece of bone or the like, for use in vaccinating.
    • : point lace.
    • : any lace made by hand.
    • : Heraldry. one of the pendent parts of a label.
    • : Railroads. the vertex of the angle formed at a frog by two rails; the intersection of gauge lines in a switch or frog.British.a tapering movable rail, as in a railroad switch.
    • : any place where lines intersect or meet.
    • : act of pointing.
    • : Archaic. a tagged ribbon or cord, formerly much used in dress, as for tying or fastening parts.
    • : Obsolete. an end or conclusion.
    • : Obsolete. a pointed weapon, as a dagger.
    • : Obsolete. a condition, situation, or plight: to be feeling in good point.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to direct at, to, or upon something: The witness pointed her finger at the defendant, and said in a firm voice, "That's him, the man who took my purse."
    • : to indicate the presence or position of: to point out an object in the sky.
    • : to direct attention to: to point out the advantages of a proposal.
    • : to furnish with a point or points; sharpen: to point a lead pencil.
    • : to mark with one or more points, dots, or the like.
    • : Sculpture. to transfer measurements of depth from a clay, wax, or plaster model to by means of an apparatus that drills holes to the required depth prior to carving.
    • : to punctuate, as writing.
    • : Phonetics. to mark with points.
    • : to separate by dots or points.
    • : Hunting. to indicate the presence and location of by standing rigid and facing toward the game.
    • : Masonry. to fill the joints of with mortar or cement treated in various ways with tools after application.to dress the surface of with a pointed tool.
    • : to dress with a point.
    • : Metalworking. to narrow the end of for passing through the dies of a drawbench.to narrow the end of over the head of a pin that is gripped to pull the tube through the dies of a drawbench.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to indicate position or direction, as with the finger:She pointed to where she wanted the sofa to go.
    • : to direct the mind or thought in some direction; call attention to: Everything points to his guilt.
    • : to aim: The police officer pointed at the speeding car, turned on his lights and siren, and set off in pursuit.
    • : to have a tendency toward something: Economic conditions point to further inflation.
    • : to have a specified direction: The sign pointed west.
    • : to face in a particular direction, as a building.
    • : Hunting. to point game.
    • : Nautical. to sail close to the wind.
    • : to come to a head.
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    • : point up, to give greater or added force to: to point up the necessity for caution.

Phrases

  • point in time
  • point of no return
  • point of view
  • point out
  • point the finger at
  • point up
  • at sword's point
  • at that point
  • at this point
  • belabor the point
  • beside the point
  • boiling point
  • brownie points
  • case in point
  • get to the point
  • hit the high spots (points)
  • in (point of) fact
  • in point
  • jumping-off place (point)
  • make a point of
  • make one's point
  • miss the point
  • moot point
  • on the point of
  • possession is nine points of the law
  • sore point
  • stretch a point
  • strong point
  • take someone's point
  • to the point
  • up to a point
  • win on points

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmeaning, essence
nounaspect, characteristic

Examples

  • Before the 2018 midterm elections, redistricting expert Dave Wasserman worked with the team at FiveThirtyEight to create an Atlas of Redistricting that makes the point well.

  • One of the main sticking points was it was found that the NSA had hacked Petrobras, the state-owned oil company.

  • That’s the only kind of endurance I’m going to cosign for at this point.

  • Despite its massive growth, Snowflake is not without its sore points.

  • The point of sharing this script is to make it easy for everyone to see the impact of this change on their own accounts.

  • The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

  • Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.

  • But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.