Word Finder - point

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A discrete division of something.

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A sharp extremity.

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One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.

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A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.

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A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.

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Lace worked by the needle.

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point de Venise; Brussels point

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An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

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The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.

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The dog came to a point.

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The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.

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The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.

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The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.

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A vaccine point.

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In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.

At some point she fell asleep.

There was no point in working herself up this way.

There was no point making an issue of it.

From that point on it was a nightmare.

Most girls wanted to be a princess at some point in their youth, though she couldn't specifically remember that wish.

If someone tries to attack you, just point it at them.

This idea that there are a finite number of jobs misses the point entirely of what makes a job.

At least at this point, the old house was paying for itself.

There's no point in making it look any worse than it is.

I just didn't see any point in spending money on new clothes when my old ones still had a lot of wear in them.

From that point, medicine would never be the same.

We have reached the point where many items can only be made by robots.

There was no point in arguing the issue.

There was no point dwelling on it.

There was no point moving to Bartlesville now.

Whether you look at a single country over a span of time, or a group of countries at a specific point in history, the result is the same.

That wasn't the point she was trying to make, but maybe a man would never understand what she was talking about.

The point is that the cost of making almost everything is mostly energy and intellect, not raw materials.

Any teacher of composition knows that he can bring his pupils to the point of writing without errors in syntax or in the choice of words.

At some point, that stopped bugging her and became an attraction.

At this point, he probably didn't know anyway.

Prince Bagration, having reached the highest point of our right flank, began riding downhill to where the roll of musketry was heard but where on account of the smoke nothing could be seen.

To that I must entirely change my point of view and study the laws of the movement of steam, of the bells, and of the wind.

There's nothing you can do about this and there's no point in burdening you with it.

There wasn't anything on that tablet that I didn't already know at that point, though.

A second method of radical redistribution is to increase marginal tax rates to a point that is confiscatory.

There's no point in pushing yourself until you drop.

She had made her point.

The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.

At this point, things get harder.

Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water.

But the point is that the count was much annoyed.

As for the drink, there was no point in bringing that up.

Or when he has a wife to point the way.

There was no point in stalling now.

There was no point in telling them that riding with Bordeaux hadn't been her idea.

The main point, however, was that they flew, and flew swiftly, if a bit unevenly, toward the rock for which they had headed.

I include them to point out that history is discontinuous.

When contemplating the future, our only point of reference is present reality.

Our conception of the degree of freedom often varies according to differences in the point of view from which we regard the event, but every human action appears to us as a certain combination of freedom and inevitability.

At this point, abandoning the two fertilized eggs might be a worse sin.

At one point he splashed through a mud puddle, throwing mud and water all over her.

There was little point in denying her attraction, but he'd best learn to keep his distance.

A scarred tree marked a turning point in the trail, so she slowed down.

She knew that when she accepted the job so any complaint at this point would be out of line.

No point mulling over a decision she had already made.

I daresay if you have purchased anything on Amazon, you have almost certainly, at some point, purchased an additional item Amazon suggested.

At one point, Tiger Woods got a dime for every box of Wheaties cereal with his photo on it, while the farmer was paid only a nickel for the wheat in that same box—and the farmer still made a profit.

I had read many books before, but never from a critical point of view.

I have noticed that a portion of Walden which in the state of water was green will often, when frozen, appear from the same point of view blue.