Word Finder - points

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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.

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To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

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It's rude to point at other people.

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To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.

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The arrow of a compass points north

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To face in a particular direction.

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(sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.

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to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort

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To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.

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to point a dart, a pencil, or (figuratively) a moral

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To indicate a probability of something.

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To repair mortar.

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To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

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(stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

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To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.

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If he asks for food, point him toward the refrigerator.

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To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.

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To mark with diacritics.

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To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.

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to point a composition

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To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.

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To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.

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To sail close to the wind.

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Bear off a little, we're pointing.

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To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

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(of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.

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To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.

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To appoint.

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Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.

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The two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow current to flow or not through the ignition coil. Each surface is called a point singular (there's usually a moving point which is pushed by the distributor cam and a fixed point which isn't), but they're made together in a unit and serviced or replaced that way and are hence normally called points plural.

You were two points from sleeping alone big guy.

Take all the webbing of a normal spider, wad it up and tangle everything together then attach it to random points.

She stopped in front of a small mural depicting a triangle with a form at each of the points.

Sloping shoulders, huge biceps, wide chest, lean abdomen … Now she understood rule number three and why it had the most exclamation points.

Even with the particles retarding the motion of the aether, the same will be true if, to counterbalance the increased inertia, suitable forces are caused to act on the aether at all points where the inertia is altered.

The young insect resembles its parent in most points, but the head is disproportionately large; the anterior abdominal spiracles are on the second segment instead of on the first, and the foot has only a single segment.

Chauveau points to the reduction in the 12-hour term as compared to the 24-hour term on the Eiffel Tower, and infers the practical disappearance of the former at no great height.

Curiously, Apotheosis is used by the Latin Christian poet, Prudentius (c. 400), as the title of a poem defending orthodox views on the person of Christ and other points of doctrine - the affectation of a decadent age.

The part he played during the summer of 1789 is one of the most debated points in the history of the Revolution.

The roof must not be quite flat, for a slight fall is necessary in its upper surface to allow water to drain away into gutters placed at convenient points.

For the measurement of wider stars he invented his lamp-micrometer, in which the components of a double star observed with the right eye were made to coincide with two lucid points placed io ft.

The distance of the lucid points was the tangent of the magnified angles subtended by the stars to a radius of io ft.

One of the most essential points in a good micrometer is that all the webs shall be so nearly in the same plane as to be well in focus together under the highest powers used, and at the same time absolutely free from " fiddling."

Sometimes they occupy the approaches to tablelands, the narrowest points of gorges, or the fords of rivers; sometimes almost inaccessible mountain tops or important points on ridges; and it may be noticed that, where two important nuraghi are not visible from one another, a small one is interpolated, showing that there was a system of signalling from one to another.

His friend Beeckman lent him a copy of Galileo's work, which he glanced through in his usual manner with other men's books; he found it good, and " failing more in the points where it follows received opinions than where it diverges from them."

With more eloquence than judgment, he propounded theses bringing into relief the points in which the new doctrines clashed with the old.

In the Discourse of Method Descartes had sketched the main points in his new views, with a mental autobiography which might explain their origin, and with some suggestions of as to their applications.

Fermat and Descartes agreed in regarding the tangent to a curve as a secant of that curve with the two points of intersection coinciding, while Roberval regarded it as the direction of the composite movement by which the curve can be described.

Henry More, who had given it a modified sympathy in the lifetime of the author, became its opponent in later years; and Cudworth differed from it in most essential points.

Then came his deliverances upon undecided points in theology, in his XII.

A special feature of his rule was the sending out of numerous cleruchies (q.v.), which served the double purpose of securing strategic points to Athens and converting the needy proletariate of the capital into owners of real property.

There are regular lines of steamers running between Vancouver and Alaska and the points of connexion with the Yukon territory, as well as lines to Puget Sound and San Francisco in the United States.

As a rule, a match consists of 21 points, or 21 ends (or a few more, by agreement).

In English practice the leader is entitled to a second throw if he fail to roll a On Scottish greens the game of points is frequently played, but it is rarely seen on English greens.

Three points are scored if the bowl come to rest within I ft.

Three points are given to the bowl that trails the jack over both lines into the semicircle and goes over them itself.

If a bowl trail the jack over both lines, but only itself cross the first; or if it pass both lines, but the jack cross only the first, two points are awarded.

It is obvious that the points game demands an ideally perfect green.

Cuneiform inscriptions and bas-reliefs have been found at the sources of both the western and eastern Tigris, as well as at various points on the cliffs along the upper course of both branches.

In the time of the Romans Rustchuk was one of the fortified points along the line of the Danube.

The country in the neighbourhood of Tubingen is very attractive; one of the most interesting points is the former Cistercian monastery of Bebenhausen, founded in 1185, and now a royal hunting-château.

Notwithstanding certain points of resemblance in structure and phonetics, Albanian is entirely distinct from the neighbouring languages; in its relation to early Latin and Greek it may be regarded as a co-ordinate member of the Aryan stock.

In projective geometry it may be defined as the conic which intersects the line at infinity in two real points, or to which it is possible to draw two real tangents from the centre.

We may observe that the asymptotes intersect this circle in the same points as the directrices.

To this consummation, with its necessary accompaniment in the extinction of prophecy, the book of Haggai already points.

Gas fires, as a substitute for the open coal fire, have many points in their favour, for they are conducive to cleanliness, they need but little attention, and the heat is easily controlled.

It resembles in many points the one-pipe low pressure hot-water system.

From this pipe at various points are taken the supply pipes to baths, lavatories, sinks and other appliances.

These bodies have separated solely on matters of Church government and not on points of doctrine.

The decimal point is, however, used systematically in the Constructio (1619), there being perhaps two hundred decimal points altogether in the book.

When it refused to discuss points of doctrine a secession took place under the name of the Union des eglises evangeliques de France.

Difference of opinion, therefore, arose as to the interpretation of the protocol, the Argentines insisting that the boundary should run from highest peak to highest peak, the Chileans that it should follow the highest points of the watershed.

The Nord, which serves the rich mining, industrial and farming districts of Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Aisne and Somme, connecting with the Belgian railways at several points.

The general council controls the departmental administration of the prefect, and its decisions on points of local government are usually final.

It may also be prepared by heating ammonium oxalate; by passing induction sparks between carbon points in an atmosphere of nitrogen.

The city is built with its streets running between the cardinal points of the compass and crossing each other at right angles.

Of more interest is the imperfectly known Wynyardia, from older Tertiary beds in Tasmania, which apparently presents points of affinity both to phalangers and dasyures.

Ouseley points out that this castle was still used in the 16th century, at least as a state prison.

On the other hand, the Jewish Christians continued to keep the Sabbath, like other points of the old law.

In both points it is followed by Deuteronomy.'