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. |
Drift
(n.) A driving |
Drift
(n.) The act or motion of drifting |
Drift
(n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven |
Drift
(n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like |
Drift
(n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along |
Drift
(n.) Anything driven at random. |
Drift
(n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water |
Drift
(n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds. |
Drift
(n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. |
Drift
(n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice. |
Drift
(n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river. |
Drift
(n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it |
Drift
(n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework. |
Drift
(n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles. |
Drift
(n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft |
Drift
(n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time. |
Drift
(n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting. |
Drift
(n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. |
Drift
(n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. |
Drift
(n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle. |
Drift
(n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven. |
Drift
(v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air |
Drift
(v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind |
Drift
(v. i.) to make a drift |
Drift
(v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body. |
Drift
(v. t.) To drive into heaps |
Drift
(v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift. |
Drift
(a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted |
Dust-point
(n.) An old rural game. |
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. |
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 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 |
| 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 |
drift
heading
gallery | a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine, they dug a drift parallel with the vein |
| drift net | a large fishnet supported by floats, it drifts with the current |
| dry point | a steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate |
| dry point | a print produced by dry point engraving |
| gros point | needlepoint embroidery done with large stitches |
| gros point | a needlepoint stitch covering two horizontal and two vertical threads |
| petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
| petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
| 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 |
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 |
well point
wellpoint | a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area |
| boiling point | being highly angry or excited, ready to boil over, after an hour of waiting I was at the boiling point |
| vanishing point | the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge |
| point spot | an outstanding characteristic, his acting was one of the high points of the movie |
| point | a distinguishing or individuating characteristic, he knows my bad points as well as my good points |
| selling point | a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers |
Curie temperature
Curie point | the temperature above which a ferromagnetic substance loses its ferromagnetism and becomes paramagnetic |
| dew point | the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes saturated and condensation begins |
flash point
flashpoint | the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air |
freezing point
melting point | the temperature below which a liquid turns into a solid |
| boiling point boil | the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level, they brought the water to a boil |
point
pointedness | the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip |
| point of view | the spatial property of the position from which something is observed |
forte strong suit
long suit
metier
specialty speciality strong point
strength | an asset of special worth or utility, cooking is his forte |
| weak point | an attribute that is inadequate or deficient |
| craniometric point | a landmark on the skull from which craniometric measurements can be taken |
auriculare
auricular point | the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus |
jugale
jugal point | the craniometric point at the union of the frontal and temporal processes of the zygomatic bone |
orbitale
orbital point | the craniometric point at the lowest point on the lower edge of the orbit |
prosthion
prostheon
alveolar point | craniometric point that is the most anterior point in the midline on the alveolar process of the maxilla |
| pressure point | an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure, you must know the pressure points in order to administer shiatsu |
| McBurney's point | a point one third of the way along a line drawn from the hip to the umbilicus, the point of maximum sensitivity in acute appendicitis |
| point system | a system of evaluation based on awarding points according to rules |
| point of honor | a concern that seriously reflects on your honor |