Cover-point
(n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Devil's darning-needle
() A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t. |
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. |
File
(n.) An orderly succession |
File
(n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another |
File
(n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference |
File
(n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order. |
File
(n.) A roll or list. |
File
(n.) Course of thought |
File
(v. t.) To set in order |
File
(v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way |
File
(v. t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court |
File
(v. i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another |
File
(n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. |
File
(n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. |
File
(n.) A shrewd or artful person. |
File
(v. t.) To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file |
File
(v. t.) To smooth or polish as with a file. |
File
(v. t.) To make foul |
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. |
Needle
(n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. |
Needle
(n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic. |
Needle
(n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting |
Needle
(n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. |
Needle
(n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. |
Needle
(v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle |
Needle
(v. i.) To form needles |
Needle-pointed
(a.) Pointed as needles. |
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 |
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 |
| point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
| 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 |
dragonfly
darning needle
devil's darning needle
sewing needle
snake feeder
snake doctor
mosquito hawk
skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
ball bearing
needle bearing
roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls |
| basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
| blunt file | a file with parallel edges |
corner
street corner
turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
crochet needle
crochet hook | a needle with a hook on the end, used in crocheting |
darning needle
embroidery needle | a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread |
| dedicated file server | (computer science) a file server that can be used only as a file server |
| 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 |
| file | a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces, used for smoothing wood or metal |
file file cabinet
filing cabinet | office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order |
| file folder | folder that holds papers together in a filing cabinet |
| file server | (computer science) a digital computer that provides workstations on a network with controlled access to shared resources |
| flat file | a file with two flat surfaces |
| gros point | needlepoint embroidery done with large stitches |
| gros point | a needlepoint stitch covering two horizontal and two vertical threads |
| hypodermic needle | a hollow needle |
| knitting needle | needle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends, usually used in pairs |
| magnetic needle | a slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction, used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole |
| needle | a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) |
| needle | a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument |
| non-dedicated file server | (computer science) a file server that can be used simultaneously as a workstation |
| packing needle | a large needle used to sew up canvas packages |
| petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
| petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
phonograph needle
needle | a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record |
| 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 |
rasp
wood file | a coarse file with sharp pointed projections |
| rat-tail file | a thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat |
| round file | a file with a circular cross section, used to file the inside of holes |
| sewing needle | a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth |
| Space Needle | a towerfeet tall in Seattle, a tourist attraction |
spearhead
spearpoint
spear-point | the head and sharpened point of a spear |
| taper file | a file with converging edges |
three-way switch
three-point switch | an electric switch that has three terminals, used to control a circuit from two different locations |
| upholstery needle | any of several very heavy and sometimes curved sewing needles used by upholsterers |