1. point out : 指出;
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1. 观点;看法;论点
You use point to refer to something that someone has said or written.
2. 论据;道理
If you say that someone has a point, or if you take their point, you mean that you accept that what they have said is important and should be considered.
3. 要点;核心问题
The point of what you are saying or discussing is the most important part that provides a reason or explanation for the rest.
4. 意义;目的;作用
If you ask what the point of something is, or say that there is no point in it, you are indicating that a particular action has no purpose or would not be useful.
5. 细节;方面;特性
A point is a detail, aspect, or quality of something or someone.
6. 地点;地方;(表示位置的)点,处
A point is a particular place or position where something happens.
7. (某一)时刻,阶段
You use point to refer to a particular time, or to a particular stage in the development of something.
8. 尖;尖端;尖头
The point of something such as a pin, needle, or knife is the thin, sharp end of it.
9. (口语中表示)小数点
In spoken English, you use point to refer to the dot or mark in a decimal number that separates the whole numbers from the fractions.
10. (用作某些体育运动等计分单位的)点,分
In some sports, competitions, and games, a point is one of the single marks that are added together to give the total score.
11. 罗经(方位)点
The points of the compass are directions such as North, South, East, and West.
12. (铁轨的)轨尖,道岔
On a railway track, the points are the levers and rails at a place where two tracks join or separate. The points enable a train to move from one track to another.
1. a contact in the distributor
as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
Synonym: distributor pointbreaker point
2. sharp end
e.g. he stuck the point of the knife into a tree
he broke the point of his pencil
3. a wall socket
Synonym: power point
4. the gun muzzle's direction
e.g. he held me up at the point of a gun
Synonym: gunpoint
5. an outstanding characteristic
e.g. his acting was one of the high points of the movie
Synonym: spot
6. a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
e.g. he knows my bad points as well as my good points
7. the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
Synonym: pointedness
8. an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
e.g. several of the details are similar
a point of information
9. a geometric element that has position but no extension
e.g. a point is defined by its coordinates
10. the object of an activity
e.g. what is the point of discussing it?
11. a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
e.g. 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
Synonym: item
12. a brief version of the essential meaning of something
e.g. get to the point
he missed the point of the joke
life has lost its point
13. the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
Synonym: decimal pointpercentage point
14. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
e.g. the point of the arrow was due north
Synonym: head
15. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
e.g. in England they call a period a stop
Synonym: periodfull stopstopfull point
16. the precise location of something
a spatially limited location
e.g. she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
17. a promontory extending out into a large body of water
e.g. they sailed south around the point
18. one percent of the total principal of a loan
it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
19. the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
e.g. he scored 20 points in the first half
a touchdown counts 6 points
20. a linear unit used to measure the size of type
approximately 1/72 inch
21. a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
22. any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
e.g. he checked the point on his compass
Synonym: compass point
23. a V shape
e.g. the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points
24. a very small circular shape
e.g. a row of points
draw lines between the dots
Synonym: dot
25. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
e.g. a remarkable degree of frankness
at what stage are the social sciences?
26. an instant of time
e.g. at that point I had to leave
Synonym: point in time