EGAVE

point

About 274.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small dot or mark. Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
  2. noun Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
  3. noun A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
  4. noun A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
    10.5 is "ten point five", or ten and a half.
  5. noun Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
  6. noun A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
  7. noun A note; a tune.
  8. noun A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.

Similar words

item betoken indicate bespeak period point in time show stage detail direct

Often followed by

of in to is out where that for on

Word family

at the point of come/get to the point fine/finer points more to the point pointed pointing points starting point to the point of

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