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point
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) enPR: point, IPA(key): /p??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English point, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin p?nctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of p?nctus m, perfect passive participle of pung? (“I prick, punch”); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin p?ncta f (past participle). Displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, punctum, punt, and punto.
Noun
point (plural points)
- A discrete division of something.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality. [from 13th c.]
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture. [from 13th c.]
- (archaic) Condition, state. [from 13th c.]
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition. [from 14th c.]
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful. [from 14th c.]
- (obsolete) The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit. [14th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) A tiny amount of time; a moment. [14th-17th c.]
- 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum
- When time's first point begun / Made he all souls.|title=Of the Soule of Man and the Immortalitie Thereof
- 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position. [from 14th c.]
- (mathematics, sciences) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction. [from 14th c.]
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark. [from 14th c.]
- (music) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- (by extension) A note; a tune.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic. [from 15th c.]
- (in the plural, dated) The chief or excellent features.
- the points of a horse
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark. [from 15th c.]
- (now only in phrases) A tenth; formerly also a twelfth. [from 17th c.]
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc. [from 17th c.]
- (sports, video games, board games) A unit of scoring in a game or competition. [from 18th c.]
- (mathematics) A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud). [from 18th c.]
- (economics) A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares. [from 19th c.]
- (typography) a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era). [from 19th c.]
- (Britain) An electric power socket. [from 20th c.]
- (navigation, nautical) A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
- (Britain) A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality. [from 13th c.]
- A sharp extremity.
- The sharp tip of an object. [from 14th c.]
- Any projecting extremity of an object. [from 14th c.]
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip. [from 14th c.]
- (backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played. [from 15th c.]
- A peninsula or promontory. [from 15th c.]
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force. [from 16th c.]
- (by extension) An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- (by extension) An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction. [from 16th c.]
- (nautical) The difference between two points of the compass.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression. [from 17th c.]
- (rail transport, Britain, in the plural) A railroad switch. [from 19th c.]
- (usually in the plural) An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking. [from 19th c.]
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- (fencing) A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- The sharp tip of an object. [from 14th c.]
- (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- 2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education
- […] DCDP children are exposed to more points and gesturelike signs in their linguistic environment […]
- 2005, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education
- (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
- In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
- (cricket) A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover. [from 19th c.]
- (lacrosse, ice hockey) The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- (baseball) The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- (hunting) A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
Synonyms
- (location or place): location, place, position, spot
- (in geometry): ord
- (particular moment in an event or occurrence): moment, ord, time
- (sharp tip): end, ord, tip
- (arithmetic symbol): spot, decimal point (name of the symbol; not used when reading decimal fractions aloud)
- (opinion): opinion, point of view, view, viewpoint
- (unit of measure of success or failure): mark (in a competition)
- (color of extremities of an animal):
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: poin
- ? Japanese: ???? (pointo)
- ? Korean: ??? (pointeu)
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for the use of point with these verbs
References
- point on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English pointen, poynten, from Old French pointier, pointer, poynter, from Medieval Latin punctare, p?nctu?re, from Latin p?nctum.
Verb
point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)
- (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe.
- (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To direct toward an object; to aim.
- 1853, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers (volume 11, page 267)
- Mr. Fitzsimons pointed my attention to an outside car on which was written, "Take warning," or something of that kind, and he pointed that out to me, and drew my attention to it, as a thing likely to intimidate […]
- 1853, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers (volume 11, page 267)
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
- (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
- (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
- (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
- (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
- (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- 1713, John Gay, The Rural Sports
- He treads with caution, and he points with fear.
- 1713, John Gay, The Rural Sports
- (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
- (dated) To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 85:
- ‘Oh, it is the great defect in our Indian character!’ – and, as if to point his criticism, the lights of the Civil Station appeared on a rise to the right.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 85:
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English pointen, poynten, by apheresis of apointen, appointen, appoynten. See appoint.
Verb
point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)
- (obsolete) To appoint.
References
Further reading
- point in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- point in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Pinto, opt in, opt-in, pinot, pinto, piton, potin
Danish
Etymology
From French point, from Latin p?nctum, the neuter of the participle p?nctus (“pointed”). The Latin word is also borrowed to Danish punkt (“dot”) and punktum (“full stop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p?o???]
Noun
point
- a point (in a game)
Declension
See also
- punkt
- pointe
- pointere
Further reading
- “point” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw??/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): [pw????]
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophones: poing, poings, points
Etymology 1
From Middle French poinct (with orthography modified to reflect the Latin etymology), from Old French point, from Latin punctum.
Noun
point m (plural points)
- point (small mark)
- (sports, games) point
- full stop, period (punctuation mark)
- (knitting) stitch pattern
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Danish: point
- Norwegian Bokmål: poeng
Adverb
point
- (literary, dialectal, usually with "ne") not
- Synonym: pas (contemporary French)
Related terms
- appointer
- pointe
- poindre
- poignant
- poinçon
Etymology 2
From Old French point, from Latin punctus.
Verb
point m (feminine singular pointe, masculine plural points, feminine plural pointes)
- past participle of poindre
Etymology 3
From Latin pungit.
Verb
point
- third-person singular present indicative of poindre
Anagrams
- piton
Further reading
- “point” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Manx
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
point (verbal noun pointeil, past participle pointit)
- appoint
Mutation
Norman
Etymology
From Old French point, from Latin punctum.
Noun
point m (plural points)
- (Jersey) full stop, period (punctuation mark)
Derived terms
- point d'excliamâtion (“exclamation mark”)
- point d'tchestchionn'nie (“question mark”)
- point virgule (“semicolon”)
Old French
Etymology 1
From Latin punctum.
Noun
point m (oblique plural poinz or pointz, nominative singular poinz or pointz, nominative plural point)
- a sting; a prick
- moment; time
- (on a die) dot
- small amount
Adverb
point
- a little
- (with ne) not (indicates negation)
Descendants
- Middle French: poinct
- French: point
Etymology 2
From Latin punctus.
Verb
point
- past participle of poindre
Descendants
- Dutch: pointeren
- English: point
- Middle French: poinct
- French: point
- Norwegian Bokmål: poeng
- French: point
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pw?nt/
Noun
point f pl
- genitive plural of pointa
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?põj?.t??(i)/
Noun
point m (plural points)
- (Brazil, slang) a location where members of a group usually meet
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- what point of view is the narrator
kernel
English
Etymology
From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of *kurn? (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn +? -le. Cognate with Yiddish ??????? (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??n?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?n?l/
- Rhymes: -??(?)n?l
- Homophone: colonel
Noun
kernel (plural kernels)
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- Synonyms: crux, gist
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- (botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- Hyponyms: microkernel, unikernel
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- Antonym: userland
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, functional analysis) For a given function (especially a linear map between vector spaces), the set of elements in the domain which are mapped to zero; (formally) given f : X ? Y, the set {x ? X : f(x) = 0}.
- Antonym: support
- Meronyms: root, zero
- (mathematics, category theory) For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- 2014, Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton et al, Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle
- Using the blunt end of one of the vibraphone mallets, he pried open her folds. With the balled end of the other, he rhythmically rolled over her kernel.
- 2014, Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton et al, Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- 1916, Gilbert N. Lewis, “The Atom and The Molecule,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 38(4) p 768.
- 1. In every atom is an essential kernel which remains unaltered in all ordinary chemical changes and which possesses an excess of positive charges corresponding in number to the ordinal number of the group in the periodic table to which the element belongs.
- 1916, Gilbert N. Lewis, “The Atom and The Molecule,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 38(4) p 768.
Synonyms
- (core or essence): See also Thesaurus:gist
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
kernel (third-person singular simple present kernels, present participle kerneling, simple past and past participle kerneled)
- To enclose within a kernel
- To crenelate
Anagrams
- kleren
Hungarian
Etymology
From English kernel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?k?rn?l]
- Hyphenation: ker?nel
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
kernel (plural kernelek)
- (computing) kernel (the central part of many computer operating systems)
- Synonym: rendszermag
Declension
References
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cernel, curnel, kernell, kirnel, karnel, kurnel, kurnele, kyrnel, kyrnell, cornel
Etymology
From Old English cyrnel, from Proto-Germanic *kurnilaz; equivalent to corn +? -el. Some forms are influenced by corn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?rn?l/, /?kirn?l/, /?kurn?l/, /?k?rn?l/
Noun
kernel (plural kerneles)
- A seed, grain or stone of a fruit, corn, or nut; a pepper corn.
- (figuratively) The core or most important part of a thing.
- (figuratively) The start of an enterprise or endeavour.
- (anatomy) A organ responsible for production of substances.
- (medicine) A distended organ or growth.
- (rare) A small pebble or rock; a flake of salt.
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: kernel
- Scots: kirnel; churnel
References
- “kirnel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-06.
Old French
Alternative forms
- crenel
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
Noun
kernel m (oblique plural kerneaus or kerneax or kerniaus or kerniax or kernels, nominative singular kerneaus or kerneax or kerniaus or kerniax or kernels, nominative plural kernel)
- crenel (space in a battlement from which weapons may be used on an incoming enemy)
Descendants
- ? English: crenel
- French: créneau
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (crenel, supplement)
Portuguese
Etymology
From English kernel.
Noun
kernel m (plural kernels)
- (computing) kernel (central part of certain operating systems)
- Synonym: núcleo
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