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pointnoun a particular and often important moment in timeit was at that point that I had to stop and check on the experiment juncture beat, crack, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, minute, moment, nanosecond, second, shake, split second, tick, trice, twinkle, winkbit, spell, stretch, whilebrink, cusp, nick, threshold, vergecrisis, crunch time, wire moment of truth the last and usually sharp or tapering part of something long and narrowbe careful with the point on that umbrella, or you could hurt someone apex, cusp, end, nib, nose, pike, tip pinpointprong, tinebarb, jag, prickle, snag, spike, sticker an interval of time just before the onset of somethingwas at the point of accepting the new job when he realized he didn't want to leave his old one brink, cusp, edge, threshold, verge nick a separate part in a list, account, or serieswent down the list point by point detail, item, particular article, belonging, object, stuff, thingcharacteristic, component, constituent, element, factor, feature, memberingredientdivision, particle, partition, piece, portion, section, segment aggregate, composite, compound, conglomerateentirety, sum, summation, total, totality, whole a single piece of informationtwo points that are important to remember datum, detail, fact, nicety, particular, particularity, specific article, itemcomponent, constituent, element, ingredient, member, partaspect, circumstance, facet, factorevidence, exhibitdatabase, information, knowledge error, fallacy, falsehood, inaccuracy, misconception, misstatement, myth a small area that is different (as in color) from the main partthe little points of gold in the blue ceiling are supposed to represent stars blotch, dapple, dot, eyespot, fleck, mottle, patch, pip, speck, speckle, splotch, spot birthmark, freckle, moleblob, blot, mark, smear, smudge, smutch, stainspatter, splashpolka dot an area of high ground jutting out into a body of water beyond the line of the coastthe racing yacht rounded the point far ahead of its closest rival an area of land that juts out into a body of waterPoint Reyes, California an individual part of a process, series, or rankingat this point in your life, you should already be saving for retirement chapter, cut, degree, grade, inch, notch, peg, phase, place, stage, step angle, aspect, facet, sideamount, measure, planedecrement, increment something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kindimpeccable politeness has always been her strong point affection, attribute, attribution, character, characteristic, criterion, diagnostic, differentia, feature, fingerprint, hallmark, mark, marker, note, particularity, peculiarity, property, quality, specific, stamp, touch, trait badge, indication, signemblem, symbol, tokencharm, graceexcellence, merit, virtueeccentricity, idiosyncrasy, oddity, quirkindividuality, singularity, uniqueness the area or space occupied by or intended for somethingrunners began lining up by the starting point emplacement, locale, locality, location, locus, place, position, site, spot, venue, where sceneprecinct, region, section, sectorhere, there the quality of an utterance that provokes interest and produces an effecther jokes are often long, rambling stories that have no point whatsoever cogency, effectiveness, force, forcefulness, impact, punch payoffimportance, significanceappeal, attraction, charm, fascination something that one hopes or intends to accomplishwhat we're doing does have a point—doesn't it? aim, ambition, aspiration, bourne(also bourn), design, dream, end, goal, idea, ideal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, plan, pretension, purpose, target, thing grail, holy grailplot, project, schemedesire, hope, mind, wishnirvanadestination, terminus name of the game means, method, way the central part or aspect of something under considerationthat clueless reviewer seems to have missed the whole point of the book bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, crux, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, root, sum course, direction, drift, tenorbody, content, substancehypothesis, proposition, purport, subject, theme, thesis sum and substance, the long and short(or the long and the short) in the 13th century |