Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead |
By-place (n.) A retired or private place. |
Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Dew-point (n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. |
Discovery (n.) The action of discovering |
Discovery (n.) A making known |
Discovery (n.) Finding out or ascertaining something previously unknown or unrecognized |
Discovery (n.) That which is discovered |
Discovery (n.) Exploration |
Dust-point (n.) An old rural game. |
Fault-finding (n.) The act of finding fault or blaming |
Finding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Find |
Finding (n.) That which is found, come upon, or provided |
Finding (n.) Support |
Finding (n.) The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact |
Libration point (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body. |
Locality (n.) The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. |
Locality (n.) Position |
Locality (n.) Limitation to a county, district, or place |
Locality (n.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. |
Place (n.) Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use |
Place (n.) A broad way in a city |
Place (n.) A position which is occupied and held |
Place (n.) Rank |
Place (n.) Vacated or relinquished space |
Place (n.) A definite position or passage of a document. |
Place (n.) Ordinal relation |
Place (n.) Reception |
Place (n.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body |
Place (n.) To assign a place to |
Place (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position |
Place (n.) To put out at interest |
Place (n.) To set |
Place (n.) To attribute |
Place-proud (a.) Proud of rank or office. |
Point (v. t. & i.) To appoint. |
Point (n.) That which pricks or pierces |
Point (n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others |
Point (n.) Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape |
Point (n.) The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle |
Point (n.) An indefinitely small space |
Point (n.) An indivisible portion of time |
Point (n.) A mark of punctuation |
Point (n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree |
Point (n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character |
Point (n.) Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc. |
Point (n.) A small matter |
Point (n.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time |
Point (n.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles |
Point (n.) 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. |
discovery find uncovering a | the act of discovering something |
place kick place-kicking | (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking |
self-discovery | discovering your own individuality |
determination finding | the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation, the determination of molecular structures |
prognosis prospect medical prognosis | a prediction of the course of a disease |
point after point after touchdown extra point | in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown |
springboard jumping-off point point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
place bet | a bet that a horse will finish a race no worse than second |
position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
stead position place lieu | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another, can you go in my stead?, took his place, in lieu of |
topolatry place-worship | the worship of places |
point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
market marketplace market place | the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold, without competition there would be no market, they were driven from the marketplace |
finding | the decision of a court on issues of fact or law |
verdict finding of fact | (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision, can be used in formulating a judgment |
finding of law conclusion of law | a finding as to the applicability of a rule of law to particular facts |
three-point turn | the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs |
bluepoint blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
diamond point | a very hard small point made from a diamond |
distributor point breaker point point | a contact in the distributor, as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs |
dry point | a steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate |
dry point | a print produced by dry point engraving |
farmplace farm-place farmstead | a farm together with its buildings |
forum assembly meeting place | a public facility to meet for open discussion |
gros point | needlepoint embroidery done with large stitches |
gros point | a needlepoint stitch covering two horizontal and two vertical threads |
landing landing place | structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods |
marketplace market place mart market | an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up |
n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
place mat | a mat serving as table linen for an individual place setting |
place of business business establishment | an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered |
place of worship house of prayer house of God house of worship | any building where congregations gather for prayer |
place setting setting | a table service for one person, a place setting of sterling flatware |
point | sharp end, he stuck the point of the knife into a tree, he broke the point of his pencil |
point power point | a wall socket |
point gunpoint | the gun muzzle's direction, he held me up at the point of a gun |
point-and-shoot camera | a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus |
point lace needlepoint | lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern |
p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
restaurant eating house eating place eatery | a building where people go to eat |
spearhead spearpoint spear-point | the head and sharpened point of a spear |
three-way switch three-point switch | an electric switch that has three terminals, used to control a circuit from two different locations |
type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |