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. |
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. |
Pick
(v.) To throw |
Pick
(v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak |
Pick
(v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points |
Pick
(v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire. |
Pick
(v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers |
Pick
(v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth |
Pick
(v.) To choose |
Pick
(v.) To take up |
Pick
(v.) To trim. |
Pick
(v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels |
Pick
(v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things |
Pick
(v. i.) To steal |
Pick
(n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking |
Pick
(n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc. |
Pick
(n.) A pike or spike |
Pick
(n.) Choice |
Pick
(n.) That which would be picked or chosen first |
Pick
(n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. |
Pick
(n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. |
Pick
(n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute |
Pick-fault
(n.) One who seeks out faults. |
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
(n.) An item of private information |
Point
(n.) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman. |
Point
(n.) The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game |
choice
selection
option
pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
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 |
| pickup | the act of taking aboard passengers or freight |
| pick | a basketball maneuver, obstructing an opponent with one's body, he was called for setting an illegal pick |
| pick-off | a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out |
garbage collection
garbage pickup
trash collection
trash pickup | the collection and removal of garbage |
| pickup | the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places, garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays |
| 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 |
bracer
pick-me-up | a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) |
| cartridge pickup | an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable |
corner
street corner
turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
| crystal pickup | a cartridge in which an output voltage is produced by the vibration of a piezoelectric crystal |
| 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 |
| guitar pick | a plectrum used to pluck a guitar |
icepick
ice pick | pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point, used for breaking up blocks of ice |
| petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
| petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
pick
pickax
pickaxe | a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends, they used picks and sledges to break the rocks |
| pick | a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material, he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks |
pick plectrum
plectron | a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument |
pickup
pickup truck | a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard |
| pickup pick-me-up | anything with restorative powers, she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her |
| 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 |
televisionamera tube
television pickup tube | a tube that rapidly scans an optical image and converts it into electronic signals |
three-way switch
three-point switch | an electric switch that has three terminals, used to control a circuit from two different locations |
tone arm
pickup pickup arm | mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge |
well point
wellpoint | a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area |
woof
weft
filling
pick | the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving |
| 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 |