point – English noun declension

English noun forms of point

Noun: point
Singularpoint
Pluralpoints

Sample Sentences

  • The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
  • Commas and points they set exactly right. [1735, Alexander Pope, The Prologue to the Satires:]
  • 10.5 is "ten point five", or ten and a half.
  • 0.375 cm is nought point three seven five of a centimeter.
  • Sound the trumpet — not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war. [1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:]
  • The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
  • There comes a point in a marathon when some people give up.
  • At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
  • She was not feeling in good point.
  • I made the point that we all had an interest to protect.
  • The point is that we should stay together, whatever happens.
  • Near-synonyms: meaning, meaningfulness, use
  • Since the decision has already been made, I see little point in further discussion.
  • I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • But I love you / More than I wanted to / There's no point in trying to pretend [1983 October 31, Genesis, “That's All”, in Genesis:]
  • We're all gonna die
  • What's the point in life
  • What's the point in life if we all die? [2023, “What's the Point in Life”, in Killjoy, performed by Coach Party:]
  • full large of limbe and euery ioint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point. [1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:]
  • When time's first point begun / Made he all souls. [1599, John Davies, “Of the Soule of Man and the Immortalitie Thereof”, in Nosce Teipsum:]
  • We should meet at a pre-arranged point.
  • Logic isn't my strong point.
  • the points of a horse
  • Knowledge was always useful, and he had frequently heard the words 'Great Portland Street' on the lips of his son, who regularly perused all the twelve automobilistic papers, and who was apparently the most learned pundit and inclusive encyclopædia ever created on the subject of petrol-driven vehicles, their prices, and their innumerable points. [1931, Arnold Bennett, The Night Visitor and Other Stories, page 290:]
  • The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
  • Possession is nine points of the law.
  • We have yet to touch on the idea of stars and directors receiving gross points, which is a percentage of the studio's gross dollar (e.g., the $5.00 studio share of the total box office dollar in Table 4.1). Even if the points are paid on "first dollar," the reference is only to studio share. [2013, Louise Levison, Filmmakers and Financing: Business Plans for Independents, page 67:]
  • The one with the most points will win the game.
  • This attack deals 320 points of damage.
  • Defeating the boss grants 60 experience points.
  • Cut the skin with the point of the knife.
  • Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:]
  • His cowboy belt was studded with points.
  • Solutrean points resemble the canines of the sabre-toothed cats. [2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History:]
  • Willie Jones decided to become Kimani Jones, Black Panther, on the day his best friend, Otis Nicholson, stepped on a mine while walking point during a sweep in the central highlands. [2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 189:]
  • "When do we pull the trigger?" he asked. I was quick to respond, "If Tammy get's Mrs. Wellington to agree, she'll call you in a couple hours. Then just pull out all stops. Tammy has point on this, I don't want to hear from you unless it's an all clear." [2013, Erik Schubach, Music of the Soul, volume 1:]
  • The president’s senior policy adviser, Stephen Miller, has been point on immigration policy. [2018 July 2, Paul Winfree, “Trump’s economic agenda is unfocused. Here’s how to fix it.”, in Washington Post:]
  • He captained Regis High School’s 1958 squad, but now runs point on infectious diseases. [2020 July 23, Gabe Lacques, “Dr. Anthony Fauci throws first pitch at Nationals-Yankees MLB opener”, in USA TODAY:]
  • Instead of one point-person taking all the parents’ questions, WPSD has “put together coaches and ambassadors to handle calls so one person doesn’t have to handle 2,500 calls,” Woolf said. [2020 August 11, Michelle Karas, “Woodland Park School District plans for Aug. 25 reopening with multiple learning options”, in Pikes Peak Courier:]
  • to fall off a point
  • Ship ahoy, three points off the starboard bow!
  • There was moreover a hint of the duchess in the infinite point with which, as she felt, she exclaimed: "And this is what you call coming often?" [1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:]
  • And with an emphatic nod to give point to her self-possession Mrs. Larch vanished. [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
  • The point, according to Edmondson, (meaning the point pointed,) is an ordinary somewhat resembling the pile, issuing from the base, as in Plate VII. fig. 24, and is sometimes termed a base point pointed, but the word base is superfluous, as that is the proper place of the point;[…] [1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry:]
  • […] 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:]
  • The dog came to a point.
  • tierce point
  • pick your purse while they tie your points, and cut your throat while they smooth your pillow [1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III) (in English), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:]
  • point de Venise; Brussels point
  • And I to make all knovv, I am not ſhallovv, / VVill have my points of Cucchineale and yellovv. [c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, signature [K4], recto:]
  • He wore a garb rather fanciful, of a silver-grey colour, trimmed with crimson, and a narrow edging of silver; the lace round his throat was of the finest point; […] [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 297:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English poynt, from Old French point m (“dot; minute amount”), from Latin pūnctum (“a hole punched in; a point, puncture”), substantive use of pūnctus m, perfect passive participle of pungō (“to prick, punch”); alternatively, from Old French pointe f (“sharp tip”), from Latin pūncta f (past participle), all from Proto-Italic *pungō (“to sting, prick”).
2. Mostly displaced native Middle English ord (“point”), from Old English ord (“point”). Doublet of pointe, ponto, puncto, punctum, punt, and punto. See: Middle English Nouns 'poynt', Latin Nouns 'pūnctum', Latin Nouns 'pūnctus', Middle English Nouns 'ord', Old English Nouns 'ord'.

Verbs referencing "point"

Finnish Nouns pointsi, Finnish Nouns pointti.