point of departure
— Noun
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~ a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched; "one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him"; "my point of departure was San Francisco"
point
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~ a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?"
point
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~ a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north"
point
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~ a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"
point
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~ a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots"
point
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~ a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"
point man
— Noun
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~ a soldier who goes ahead of a patrol
point
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~ a brief version of the essential meaning of something; "get to the point"; "he missed the point of the joke"; "life has lost its point"
point
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~ the object of an activity; "what is the point of discussing it?"
point of honor
— Noun
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~ a concern that seriously reflects on your honor
point
— Noun
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~ a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first"
point
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~ the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
point
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~ an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
point of departure
— Noun
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~ 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"
point
— Noun
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~ a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
petit point
— Noun
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~ needlepoint done with small stitches
petit point
— Noun
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~ a small diagonal needlepoint stitch
percentage point
— Noun
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~ the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
pedal point
— Noun
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~ a sustained bass note