Alen/on lace () See under Lace. |
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. |
Dust-point (n.) An old rural game. |
Honiton lace () A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures |
Hosiery (n.) The business of a hosier. |
Hosiery (n.) Stockings, in general |
Lace (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven |
Lace (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords |
Lace (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures |
Lace (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. |
Lace (v. t.) To fasten with a lace |
Lace (v. t.) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material |
Lace (v. t.) To beat |
Lace (v. t.) To add spirits to (a beverage). |
Lace (v. i.) To be fastened with a lace, or laces |
Lace-bark (n.) A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia) |
Lace-winged (a.) Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings |
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. |
Macrame lace () A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture. |
Manufacture (n.) The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency. |
Manufacture (n.) Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc. |
Manufacture (v. t.) To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency |
Manufacture (v. t.) To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable forms for use |
Manufacture (v. i.) To be employed in manufacturing something. |
Narrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Narrow |
Narrowing (n.) The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. |
Narrowing (n.) The part of a stocking which is narrowed. |
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 (n.) A switch. |
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 |
narrowing | the act of making something narrower |
lace making tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
industry manufacture | the organized action of making of goods and services for sale, American industry is making increased use of computers to control production |
fabrication manufacture manufacturing | the act of making something (a product) from raw materials, the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals, an improvement in the manufacture of explosives, manufacturing is vital to Great Britain |
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 |
lace bug | small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
Brussels lace | fine lace with a raised or applique design |
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 |
gros point | needlepoint embroidery done with large stitches |
gros point | a needlepoint stitch covering two horizontal and two vertical threads |
hosiery hose | socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) |
lace | a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns |
lace lacing | a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) |
petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
pillow lace bobbin lace | a handmade lace worked on a pillow with threads wound on bobbins, the pattern is marked out on the pillow by pins |
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 |
shoelace shoe lace shoestring shoe string | a lace used for fastening shoes |
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 |
Valenciennes Valenciennes lace | a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns |
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 |
narrowing | an instance of becoming narrow |
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 |