point
point is a valid 5-letter word worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
What does point mean?
Be oriented.
“The weather vane points North”
“the dancers toes pointed outward”
Direct into a position for use.
“point a gun”
Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively.
“He pointed to the empty parking space”
Sail close to the wind.
Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
Give a point to.
Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.
Repair the joints of bricks.
“point a chimney”
Be positionable in a specified manner.
“The gun points with ease”
Indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle.
“the dog pointed the dead duck”
Mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes.
Mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics.
Mark with diacritics.
“point the letter”
A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs.
The dot at the left of a decimal fraction.
The property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip.
The gun muzzle's direction.
“he held me up at the point of a gun”
A V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer.
“the point of the arrow was due north”
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole.
“a point of information”
A wall socket.
An instant of time.
“at that point I had to leave”
A very small circular shape.
“a row of points”
A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
A brief version of the essential meaning of something.
“get to the point”
“he missed the point of the joke”
A distinguishing or individuating characteristic.
“he knows my bad points as well as my good points”
A geometric element that has position but no extension.
“a point is defined by its coordinates”
A linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch.
A promontory extending out into a large body of water.
“they sailed south around the point”
A style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect.
One percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan.