Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 85
Poesy (n.) Poetry; metrical composition; poems.
Music and poesy used to quicken you. -- Shak.
Poesy (n.) A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy. -- Bacon.
Poesy (n.) Literature in metrical form [syn: poetry, poesy, verse].
Poet (n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. -- Shak.
A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. -- Dryden.
Poet laureate. See under Laureate.
Poet (n.) A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry).
Poetaster (n.) An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art.
The talk of forgotten poetasters. -- Macaulay.
Poetastry (n.) The works of a poetaster. [R.]
Poetess (n.) A female poet. Poetic
Poetess (n.) A woman poet.
Poetic (a.) Alt. of Poetical.
Poetical (a.) Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments. -- Shak.
Poetical (a.) Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.
Poetic license. See License, n., 4.
Poetic (a.) Of or relating to poetry; "poetic works"; "a poetic romance" [syn: poetic, poetical].
Poetic (a.) Characterized by romantic imagery; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic."
Poetic (a.) Of or relating to poets; "poetic insight."
Poetic (a.) Characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction" [syn: poetic, poetical].
Poetically (adv.) In a poetic manner.
Poetically (adv.) In a poetic manner; "poetically expressed."
Poetics (n.) The principles and rules of the art of poetry. -- J. Warton.
Poetics (n.) Study of poetic works.
Poeticule (n.) A poetaster. -- Swinburne.
Poetized (imp. & p. p.) of Poetize.
Poetizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poetize.
Poetize (v. i.) To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.
I versify the truth, not poetize. -- Donne.
Poetize (v.) Compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga" [syn: verse, versify, poetize, poetise].
Poetry (n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. -- Coleridge.
Poetry (n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." -- Sir P. Sidney.
She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry. -- Shak.
Poetry (n.) Literature in metrical form [syn: poetry, poesy, verse].
Poetry (n.) Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling.
Poetry, () Has been well defined as "the measured language of emotion." Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man's relation to God. "Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redemption, repentance are the awful themes of this heaven-born poetry."
In the Hebrew scriptures there are found three distinct kinds of poetry, (1) that of the Book of Job and the Song of Solomon, which is dramatic; (2) that of the Book of Psalms, which is lyrical; and (3) that of the Book of Ecclesiastes, which is didactic and sententious.
Hebrew poetry has nothing akin to that of Western nations. It has neither metre nor rhyme. Its great peculiarity consists in the mutual correspondence of sentences or clauses, called parallelism, or "thought-rhyme." Various kinds of this parallelism have been pointed out:
(1.) Synonymous or cognate parallelism, where the same idea is repeated in the same words (Ps. 93:3; 94:1; Prov. 6:2), or in different words (Ps. 22, 23, 28, 114, etc.); or where it is expressed in a positive form in the one clause and in a negative in the other (Ps. 40:12; Prov. 6:26); or where the same idea is expressed in three successive clauses (Ps. 40:15, 16); or in a double parallelism, the first and second clauses corresponding to the third and fourth (Isa. 9:1; 61:10, 11).
(2.) Antithetic parallelism, where the idea of the second clause is the converse of that of the first (Ps. 20:8; 27:6, 7; 34:11; 37:9, 17, 21, 22). This is the common form of gnomic or proverbial poetry. (See Prov. 10-15.)
(3.) Synthetic or constructive or compound parallelism, where each clause or sentence contains some accessory idea enforcing the main idea (Ps. 19:7-10; 85:12; Job 3:3-9; Isa. 1:5-9).
(4.) Introverted parallelism, in which of four clauses the first answers to the fourth and the second to the third (Ps. 135:15-18; Prov. 23:15, 16), or where the second line reverses the order of words in the first (Ps. 86:2).
Hebrew poetry sometimes assumes other forms than these. (1.) An alphabetical arrangement is sometimes adopted for the purpose of connecting clauses or sentences. Thus in the following the initial words of the respective verses begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular succession: Prov. 31:10-31; Lam. 1, 2, 3, 4; Ps. 25, 34, 37, 145. Ps. 119 has a letter of the alphabet in regular order beginning every eighth verse.
(2.) The repetition of the same verse or of some emphatic expression at intervals (Ps. 42, 107, where the refrain is in verses, 8, 15, 21, 31). (Comp. also Isa. 9:8-10:4; Amos 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 13; 2:1, 4, 6.)
(3.) Gradation, in which the thought of one verse is resumed in another (Ps. 121).
Several odes of great poetical beauty are found in the historical books of the Old Testament, such as the song of Moses (Ex. 15), the song of Deborah (Judg. 5), of Hannah (1 Sam. 2), of Hezekiah (Isa. 38:9-20), of Habakkuk (Hab. 3), and David's "song of the bow" (2 Sam. 1:19-27).
Poetry (n.) A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.
Poetry (n.) [ U ] (B1) （總稱）詩，詩歌 Poems in general as a form of literature.
// Contemporary poetry and prose.
// She started writing poetry at a young age.
Poetry (n.) [ U ] 詩意 A very beautiful or emotional quality.
// This film has a savage poetry and brilliance.
Poetship (n.) The state or personality of a poet. [R.]
Poggy (n.) (Zool.) See Porgy.
Poggy (n.) (Zool.) A small whale.
Pogy (n.) (Zool.) The menhaden.
Note: Pogy is often confounded with porgy, and therefore incorrectly applied to various fishes.
Compare: Menhaden
Menhaden (n.) (Zool.) An American marine fish ({Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family ({Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.
Pogy (n.) Money received from the state [syn: dole, pogy, pogey].
Poh (interj.) An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !
POH, () Path OverHead (SONET).
Pohagen (n.) (Zool.) See Pauhaugen.
Poi (n.) A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment. Poicile
Poi (n.) Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment.
POI, () Path Overhead Indicator (SONET).
POI, () Point Of Information.
POI, () Point Of Interaction (IN).
Poicile (n.) Alt. of Poecile.
Poecile
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Poignancy (n.) 尖銳；沉痛；辛辣 The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief. -- Swift.
Poignancy (n.) A state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; "a moment of extraordinary poignancy" [syn: {poignance}, {poignancy}].
Poignancy (n.) A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation" [syn: {pathos}, {poignancy}].
Poignant (a.) Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent. "His poignant spear." -- Spenser. "Poynaunt sauce." -- Chaucer.
Poignant (a.) Fig.: Pointed; keen; satirical.
His wit . . . became more lively and poignant. -- Sir W. Scott.
Poignant (a.) Arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" [syn: affecting, poignant, touching].
Poignant (a.) Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety."
Poignant (a.) 令人痛苦的，酸楚的；深深打動人的 Causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness.
// The photograph awakens poignant memories of happier days.
// It is especially poignant that he died on the day before the wedding.
Poignantly (adv.) In a poignant manner.
Poignantly (adv.) In a poignant or touching manner; "she spoke poignantly" [syn: affectingly, poignantly, touchingly].
Poecilitic (a.) (Geol.) (a) Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.
Poecilitic (a.) (Geol.) (b) Specifically: Of or pertaining to, or characterizing, Triassic and Permian sandstones of red and other colors. [Also written poikilitic.]
Poikilitic (a.) (Geol.) See Poecilitic.
Poikilocyte (n.) (Physiol.) An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle. Poikilothermal
Poikilothermal (a.) Alt. of Poikilothermic.
Poikilothermic (a.) (Physiol.) Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.
Poikilothermous (a.) (Physiol.) Poikilothermal.
Poinciana (n.) (Bot.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
Note: The genus Poinciana is kept up for three trees of Eastern Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and India.
Poinciana (n.) Small subgenus of ornamental tropical shrubs or trees; not recognized in some classifications [syn: Poinciana, subgenus Poinciana].
Poinciana (n.) A tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana [syn: bird of paradise, poinciana, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii].
Poinciana, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 13647
Housing Units (2000): 4590
Land area (2000): 35.105724 sq. miles (90.923403 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.237734 sq. miles (0.615729 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 35.343458 sq. miles (91.539132 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57900
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.155768 N, 81.476502 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 34759
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Poinciana, FL
Poinciana
Poind (v. t.) To impound, as cattle. [Obs. or Scot.] -- Flavel.
Poind (v. t.) To distrain. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Poinder (n.) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder. [Obs. or Scot.] -- T. Adams.
Poinder (n.) One who distrains property. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Poinsettia (n.) (Bot.) A Mexican shrub ({Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
Poinsettia (n.) Tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers [syn: poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima].
Point (v. t. & i.) To appoint. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Point (n.) That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.
Point (n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer.
Point (n.) Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.
Point (n.) The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick.
Point (n.) An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.
Point (n.) An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.
When time's first point begun Made he all souls. -- Sir J. Davies.
Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.
And there a point, for ended is my tale. -- Chaucer.
Commas and points they set exactly right. -- Pope.
Point (n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. "A point of precedence." -- Selden. "Creeping on from point to point." -- Tennyson.
A lord full fat and in good point. -- Chaucer.
Point (n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc.
He told him, point for point, in short and plain. -- Chaucer.
In point of religion and in point of honor. -- Bacon.
Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty? -- Milton.
Point (n.) Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. "Here lies the point." -- Shak.
They will hardly prove his point. -- Arbuthnot.
Point (n.) A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.
This fellow doth not stand upon points. -- Shak.
[He] cared not for God or man a point. -- Spenser.
Point (n.) (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time ; as:
Point (n.) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune. "Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war." -- Sir W. Scott.
Point (n.) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes.
Point (n.) (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal.
Point (n.) (Her.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.
Point (n.) (Naut.) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.
Point (n.) (Naut.) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef.
Point (n.) (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. -- Sir W. Scott.
Point (n.) Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.
Point (n.) pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.]
Point (n.) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.]
Point (n.) (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.
Point (n.) The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.
Point (n.) (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.
Point (n.) A tyne or snag of an antler.
Point (n.) One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
Point (n.) (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.
Point (n.) (Med.) A pointed piece of quill or bone covered at one end with vaccine matter; -- called also vaccine point.
Point (n.) One of the raised dots used in certain systems of printing and writing for the blind. The first practical system was that devised by Louis Braille in 1829, and still used in Europe (see Braille). Two modifications of this are current in the United States:
New York point, Founded on three bases of equidistant points arranged in two lines (viz., : :: :::), and a later improvement, American Braille, Embodying the Braille base (:::) and the New-York-point principle of using the characters of few points for the commonest letters.
Point (n.) In technical senses:
Point (n.) (a) In various games, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player himself; as: (1) (Lacrosse & Ice Hockey) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goal keeper; also, the player himself. (2) (Baseball) (pl.) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
Point (n.) (b) (Hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run. [Colloq. Oxf. E. D.]
Point (n.) (c) (Falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
Point (n.) (d) Act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc.
At all points, In every particular, completely; perfectly. -- Shak.
At point, In point, At the point, In the point, or On the point, As near as can be; on the verge; about (see About, prep., 6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of speaking. "In point to fall down." -- Chaucer. "Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his side." -- Milton.
Dead point. (Mach.) Same as Dead center, under Dead.
Far point (Med.), In ophthalmology, the farthest point at which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with each eye separately (monocular near point).
Nine points of the law, All but the tenth point; the greater weight of authority.
On the point. See At point, above.
Point lace, Lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow.
Point net, A machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels lace (Brussels ground).
Point of concurrence (Geom.), A point common to two lines, but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base.
Point of contrary flexure, A point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides.
Point of order, In parliamentary practice, a question of order or propriety under the rules.
Point of sight (Persp.), In a perspective drawing, the point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the spectator.
Point of view, The relative position from which anything is seen or any subject is considered.
Points of the compass (Naut.), The thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and the rest are named from their respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N., N. E., etc. See Illust. under Compass.
Point paper, Paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design.
Point system of type. See under Type.
Singular point (Geom.), A point of a curve which possesses some property not possessed by points in general on the curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc.
To carry one's point, To accomplish one's object, as in a controversy.
To make a point of, To attach special importance to.
To make a point, or To gain a point, Accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position.
To mark a point, or To score a point, As in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc.
To strain a point, To go beyond the proper limit or rule; to stretch one's authority or conscience.
Vowel point, In Arabic, Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant.
Pointed (imp. & p. p.) of Point.
Pointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Point.
Point (v. t.) To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.
Point (v. t.) To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.
Point (v. t.) Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.
Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them. -- Pope.
Point (v. t.) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.
Point (v. t.) To mark (a text, as in Arabic or Hebrew) with vowel points; -- also called vocalize.
Syn: vocalize.
Point (v. t.) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out. -- Pope.
He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech. -- Dickens.
Point (v. t.) To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.
Point (v. t.) (Masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
Point (v. t.) (Stone Cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
To point a rope (Naut.), To taper and neatly finish off the end by interweaving the nettles.
To point a sail (Naut.), To affix points through the eyelet holes of the reefs.
To point off, To divide into periods or groups, or to separate, by pointing, as figures.
To point the yards (of a vessel) (Naut.), To brace them so that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely. --Totten.
Point (v. i.) To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at.
Now must the world point at poor Katharine. -- Shak.
Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe. -- Dryden.
Point (v. i.) To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
He treads with caution, and he points with fear. -- Gay.
Point (v. i.) (Med.) To approximate to the surface; to head; -- said of an abscess.
To point at, To treat with scorn or contempt by pointing or directing attention to.
To point well (Naut.), To sail close to the wind; -- said of a vessel.
Point (n.) A geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is defined by its coordinates."
Point (n.) The precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street."
Point (n.) 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."
Point (n.) An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information" [syn: detail, item, point].
Point (n.) A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point].
Point (n.) An instant of time; "at that point I had to leave" [syn: point, point in time].
Point (n.) The object of an activity; "what is the point of discussing it?"
Point (n.) A V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points" [syn: point, tip, peak].
Point (n.) A very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots" [syn: point, dot].
Point (n.) The unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points."
Point (n.) A promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point."
Point (n.) 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" [syn: item, point].
Point (n.) A style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect.
Point (n.) An outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie" [syn: point, spot].
Point (n.) Sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil."
Point (n.) Any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass" [syn: compass point, point].
Point (n.) A linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch.
Point (n.) 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.
Point (n.) A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, stop, full point].
Point (n.) A V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north" [syn: point, head].
Point (n.) The dot at the left of a decimal fraction [syn: decimal point, percentage point, point].
Point (n.) The property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip [syn: point, pointedness] [ant: unpointedness].
Point (n.) A distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points."
Point (n.) The gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun" [syn: point, gunpoint].
Point (n.) A wall socket [syn: point, power point].
Point (n.) A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs [syn: distributor point, breaker point, point].
Point (v.) Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" [syn: indicate, point, designate, show].
Point (v.) Be oriented; "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward" [syn: orient, point].
Point (v.) Direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me" [syn: charge, level, point].
Point (v.) Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise].
Point (v.) Be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal].
Point (v.) Sail close to the wind [syn: luff, point].
Point (v.) Mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics.
Point (v.) Mark with diacritics; "point the letter."
Point (v.) Mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes.
Point (v.) Be positionable in a specified manner; "The gun points with ease."
Point (v.) Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself" [syn: target, aim, place, direct, point].
Point (v.) Indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle; "the dog pointed the dead duck"
Point (v.) Give a point to; "The candles are tapered" [syn: sharpen, taper, point].
Point (v.) Repair the joints of bricks; "point a chimney" [syn: point, repoint].
Point, () (Sometimes abbreviated "pt") The unit of length used in typography to specify text character height, rule width, and other small measurements.
There are six slightly different definitions: Truchet point, Didot point, ATA point, TeX point, Postscript point, and IN point.
In Europe, the most commonly used is Didot and in the US, the formerly standard ATA point has essentially been replaced by the PostScript point due to the demise of traditional typesetting systems and rise of desktop computer based systems running software such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Pagemaker.
There are 20 twips in a point and 12 points in a pica (known as a "Cicero" in the Didot system).
Different point systems. (2004-12-23)
Point, () To move a pointing device so that the on-screen pointer is positioned over a certain object on the screen such as a button in a graphical user interface. In most window systems it is then necessary to click a (physical) button on the pointing device to activate or select the object. In some systems, just pointing to an object is known as "mouse-over" event which may cause some help text (called a "tool tip" in Windows) to be displayed. (2001-05-21)
Point, () practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.
Point, () It is the duty of a judge to give an opinion on every point of law, properly arising out of the issue, which is propounded to him. Vide Resolution.
Point, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 792
Housing Units (2000): 331
Land area (2000): 2.773143 sq. miles (7.182407 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.773143 sq. miles (7.182407 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58532
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.931512 N, 95.870957 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75472
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Point, TX
Point
Pointal (n.) (Bot.) The pistil of a plant.
Pointal (n.) A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets [i. e., tablets] . . . and a pointel." -- Chaucer.
Pointal (n.) (Arch.) See Poyntel. [Obs. or R.]
Compare: Poyntel
Poyntel (n.) [See Pointal.] (Arch.) Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally. [Formerly written pointal.]
Point-blank (n.) The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. [Obs.] -- Jonson.
Point-blank (n.) (Mil.) With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.
Point-blank (n.) (Mil.) With artillery, the point where the projectile first strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the piece being horizontal.
Point-blank (a.) Directed in a line toward the object aimed at; aimed directly toward the mark.
Point-blank (a.) Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion.
Point-blank range, The extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged.
Point-blank shot, the shot of a gun pointed directly toward the object to be hit.
Point-blank (adv.) In a point-blank manner.
To sin point-blank against God's word. -- Fuller.
Point-blank (adv.) In a direct and unequivocal manner; "I asked him point-blank whether he wanted the job."
Point-blank (a.) Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder].
Point-blank (a.) Close enough to go straight to the target; "point-blank range"; "a point-blank shot."
Point d'appui () [F.] (Mil.) See under Appui. Point-device
Compare: Appui
Appui (n.) A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. [Obs.]
If a vine be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. -- Holland.
Appui (n.) (Man.) The mutual bearing or support of the hand of the rider and the mouth of the horse through the bit and bridle.
Point d'appui. (Mil.) (a) A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column.
Point d'appui. (Mil.) (b) An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.
Point d'appui. (Mil.) (c) any point of support or basis of operations, as a rallying point.
Point-device (a.) Alt. of Point-devise
Point-devise (a.) Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.
Point-device (adv.) Alt. of Point-devise.
Point-device, Point-devise (a.) Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.
You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. -- Shak.
Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. -- Longfellow. Point-device
Point-devise (adv.) Exactly. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Pointed (a.) Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
Pointed (a.) Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing.
His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. -- Pope.
Pointed arch (Arch.), An arch with a pointed crown.
Pointed style (Arch.), A name given to that style of architecture in which the pointed arch is the predominant feature; -- more commonly called Gothic. -- Point"ed*ly, adv. -- Point"ed*ness, n.
Pointed (a.) Having a point [ant: pointless, unpointed].
Pointed (a.) Direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant; "a pointed critique"; "a pointed allusion to what was going on"; "another pointed look in their direction."