DICTOMETER

CHAZA (Spanish for "point")

(point, poeng)

1. Synonyms:
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • a geometric element that has position but no extension
   Examples:
   • A point is defined by its coordinates
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • the precise location of something
   • a spatially limited location
   Examples:
   • She walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • a brief version of the essential meaning of something
   Examples:
   • Get to the point
   • He missed the point of the joke
   • Life has lost its point
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Detail
   • Item
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
   Examples:
   • Several of the details are similar
   • A point of information
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Degree
   • Level
   • Stage
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
   Examples:
   • A remarkable degree of frankness
   • At what stage are the social sciences?
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Point
   • Point in time
   Definitions:
   • an instant of time
   Examples:
   • At that point I had to leave
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • the object of an activity
   Examples:
   • What is the point of discussing it?
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Point
   • Tip
   • Peak
   Definitions:
   • a V shape
   Examples:
   • The cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Point
   • Dot
   Definitions:
   • a very small circular shape
   Examples:
   • A row of points
   • Draw lines between the dots
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
    Examples:
    • He scored 20 points in the first half
    • A touchdown counts 6 points
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • a promontory extending out into a large body of water
    Examples:
    • They sailed south around the point
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Item
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
    Examples:
    • 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
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Point
    • Spot
    Definitions:
    • an outstanding characteristic
    Examples:
    • His acting was one of the high points of the movie
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • sharp end
    Examples:
    • He stuck the point of the knife into a tree
    • He broke the point of his pencil
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Compass point
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
    Examples:
    • He checked the point on his compass
    
    
17. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • a linear unit used to measure the size of type
    • approximately 1/72 inch
    
    
18. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • 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. Synonyms:
    • Period
    • Point
    • Full stop
    • Stop
    • Full point
    Definitions:
    • a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
    Examples:
    • In England they call a period a stop
    
    
20. Synonyms:
    • Point
    • Head
    Definitions:
    • a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
    Examples:
    • The point of the arrow was due north
    
    
21. Synonyms:
    • Decimal point
    • Percentage point
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
    
    
22. Synonyms:
    • Point
    • Pointedness
    Definitions:
    • the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
    
    
23. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
    Examples:
    • He knows my bad points as well as my good points
    
    
24. Synonyms:
    • Point
    • Gunpoint
    Definitions:
    • the gun muzzle's direction
    Examples:
    • He held me up at the point of a gun
    
    
25. Synonyms:
    • Point
    • Power point
    Definitions:
    • a wall socket
    
    
26. Synonyms:
    • Distributor point
    • Breaker point
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • a contact in the distributor
    • as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Indicate
   • Point
   • Designate
   • Show
   Definitions:
   • indicate a place, direction, person, or thing
   • either spatially or figuratively
   Examples:
   • I showed the customer the glove section
   • He pointed to the empty parking space
   • He indicated his opponents
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Orient
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • be oriented
   Examples:
   • The weather vane points North
   • The dancers toes pointed outward
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Charge
   • Level
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • direct into a position for use
   Examples:
   • Point a gun
   • He charged his weapon at me
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Steer
   • Maneuver
   • Manoeuver
   • Manoeuvre
   • Direct
   • Point
   • Head
   • Guide
   • Channelize
   • Channelise
   Definitions:
   • direct the course
   • determine the direction of travelling
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Bespeak
   • Betoken
   • Indicate
   • Point
   • Signal
   Definitions:
   • be a signal for or a symptom of
   Examples:
   • These symptoms indicate a serious illness
   • Her behavior points to a severe neurosis
   • The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Luff
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • sail close to the wind
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • mark with diacritics
   Examples:
   • Point the letter
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Point
   Definitions:
   • mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • be positionable in a specified manner
    Examples:
    • The gun points with ease
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Target
    • Aim
    • Place
    • Direct
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
    Examples:
    • He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face
    • Criticism directed at her superior
    • Direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
    Examples:
    • The dog pointed the dead duck
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Sharpen
    • Taper
    • Point
    Definitions:
    • give a point to
    Examples:
    • The candles are tapered
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Point
    • Repoint
    Definitions:
    • repair the joints of bricks
    Examples:
    • Point a chimney