point
/pɔɪnt/ sustantivo A1En español: punto, momento, fondo, argumento
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark. · The stars showed as tiny points of yellow light.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud). · 10.5 is "ten point five", or ten and a half.· 0.375 cm is nought point three seven five of a centimeter.
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- 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.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality. · The Congress debated the finer points of the bill.
Plural points
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.
The Orientals are stronger than we are in cases of conscience, and, very prudently, have no hell—that is the point.”
A LION, worn out with years and powerless from disease, lay on the ground at the point of death.
Reynolds could interest her on no other point.
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