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." |
Crown-post
(n.) Same as King-post. |
Decimal
(a.) Of or pertaining to decimals |
Decimal
(n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens |
Dew-point
(n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. |
Dust-point
(n.) An old rural game. |
Ex post facto
() Alt. of Ex postfacto |
Fractional
(a.) Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction |
Fractional
(a.) Relatively small |
King-post
(n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post. |
Lamp-post
(n.) A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc. |
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. |
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. |
Point
(n.) 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 |
Point
(n.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon. |
Point
(n.) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below) |
Point
(n.) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef. |
Point
(n.) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. |
Point
(n.) Lace wrought the needle |
| position | the act of positing, an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom |
place kick
place-kicking | (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking |
autopsy
necropsy
postmortem
post-mortem
PM
postmortem examination
post-mortem examination | an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by 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 |
| post | the delivery and collection of letters and packages, it came by the first post, if you hurry you'll catch the post |
| post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
| 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 |
| position | (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player, what position does he play? |
topolatry
place-worship | the worship of places |
placement
location locating
position
positioning
emplacement | the act of putting something in a certain place |
| point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
parcel
portion
share | the allotment of some amount by dividing something, death gets more than its share of attention from theologians |
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 |
| 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 |
powder-post termite
Cryptotermes brevis | extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
post horse
post-horse
poster | a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers |
| basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
command post
general headquarters
GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
corner
street corner
turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
| corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
| 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 |
hinging post
swinging post | the gatepost on which the gate is hung |
| hitching post | a fixed post with a ring to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying |
| king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
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 |
military post
post | military installation at which a body of troops is stationed, this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby, there is an officer's club on the post |
newel post
newel | the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, it supports the handrail |
part
portion | something less than the whole of a human artifact, the rear part of the house, glue the two parts together |
| 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 |