1.Definition: a brief version of the essential meaning of something

"Get to the point", "He missed the point of the joke", "Life has lost its point"

Category: General

2.Definition: a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

Category: Objects

3.Definition: a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list

"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"

Related Noun(s):item

Category: General

4.Definition: a distinguishing or individuating characteristic

"He knows my bad points as well as my good points"

Category: General

5.Definition: a geometric element that has position but no extension

"A point is defined by its coordinates"

Category: General

6.Definition: a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch

Category: General

7.Definition: a promontory extending out into a large body of water

"They sailed south around the point"

Category: Objects

8.Definition: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Related Noun(s):period, stop

Category: General

9.Definition: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

Related Noun(s):degree, level, stage

Category: General

10.Definition: a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect

Category: General

11.Definition: a V shape

"The cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"

Related Noun(s):peak, tip

Category: General

12.Definition: a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer

"The point of the arrow was due north"

Related Noun(s):head

Category: General

13.Definition: a very small circular shape

"A row of points", "Draw lines between the dots"

Related Noun(s):dot

Category: General

14.Definition: a wall socket

Category: Objects

15.Definition: an instant of time

"At that point I had to leave"

Category: General

16.Definition: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole

"Several of the details are similar", "A point of information"

Related Noun(s):detail, item

Category: General

17.Definition: an outstanding characteristic

"His acting was one of the high points of the movie"

Related Noun(s):spot

Category: General

18.Definition: any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass

"He checked the point on his compass"

Category: General

19.Definition: 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

Category: General

20.Definition: sharp end

"He stuck the point of the knife into a tree", "He broke the point of his pencil"

Category: Objects

21.Definition: the dot at the left of a decimal fraction

Category: General

22.Definition: the gun muzzle's direction

"He held me up at the point of a gun"

Related Noun(s):gunpoint

Category: Objects

23.Definition: the object of an activity

"What is the point of discussing it?"

Category: General

24.Definition: the precise location of something; a spatially limited location

"She walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"

Category: Places

25.Definition: the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip

Related Noun(s):pointedness

Category: General

26.Definition: the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest

"He scored 20 points in the first half", "A touchdown counts 6 points"

Category: General