What part of speech is points?

Points can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. points is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of point (infinitive).
  • 2. points is a noun, plural of point.

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Verb

Noun

What does points mean?

Definitions

Verb
point - be positionable in a specified manner; "The gun points with ease"
point - mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
point - mark with diacritics; "point the letter"
point - mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
point - repair the joints of bricks; "point a chimney"
point - indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle; "the dog pointed the dead duck"
point - direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
point - give a point to; "The candles are tapered"
point - indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents"
point - be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"
point - intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
point - be oriented; "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward"
point - sail close to the wind
point - direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"

Noun
point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
point - sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"
point - an instant of time; "at that point I had to leave"
point - a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"
point - a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots"
point - the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points"
point - 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 - the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
point - a geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is defined by its coordinates"
point - a distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points"
point - a wall socket
point - the gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun"
point - a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
point - a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north"
point - an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
point - the object of an activity; "what is the point of discussing it?"
point - a promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point"
point - 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
point - a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
point - any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass"
point - 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 - 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 - an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information"
point - 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 - a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
point - the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
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Examples of points

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1. noun At some points, as in the late 1980s, he reportedly made behind-the-scenes overtures to the Israelis to arrive at some sort of a deal.
2. noun As he did, he accumulated points toward his National Guard service requirements.
3. noun At the time, guardsmen were required to accumulate a minimum of 50 points to meet their yearly obligation.
4. noun According to records released earlier this year, Bush earned 253 points in his first year, May 1968 to May 1969 (since he joined in May 1968, his service thereafter was measured on a May-to-May basis).
5. noun Bush earned 340 points in 1969-1970.
6. noun [In other words, Bush earned enough points to satisfy the requirements for his entire six year hitch in 1969-1970 alone.
7. noun He earned 137 points in 1970-1971.
8. noun And he earned 112 points in 1971-1972.
9. noun From May 1972 to May 1973, he earned just 56 points — not much, but enough to meet his requirement.
10. noun In June and July of 1973, he accumulated 56 points, enough to meet the minimum requirement for the 1973-1974 year.
11. noun By that time, however, he had accumulated enough points in each year to cover six years of service.
12. noun With regard to a global message, I think that one of the key points around fundamental operating standards are that they are intended to be global in nature, applied to every commodity and every location where we engage in trading activities.
13. noun Attached for your review are draft talking points for the Cal Energy Markets conference I'm speaking at on Thursday in SF.
14. noun Attached is a rough draft of my talking points for a panel I'll be on at a CEM conference in SF on Thursday afternoon.
15. noun The FERC order tomorrow is likely to alter the points somewhat.
16. verb Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim and painful future?
17. verb The alibi points to her innocence.
18. verb The compass points to the north.
19. verb She points out that this latest gesture of the government has multiple meanings.
20. verb There is some evidence to suggest that the Bermuda Triangle is a place where a “magnetic” compass sometimes points towards “true” north, as opposed to “magnetic” north.
21. verb Flushed with success and eager for the fray, / "Friends," cries Coroebus, "forward; let us go / where Fortune newly smiling, points the way."
22. verb As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest.
23. verb Scientists say the record heat seen in Europe but also North America and parts of Asia this year points to the influence of man-made climate change, and could become more common in future.
24. verb If he points that gun at you, just keep on walking. Don't freeze. It's not a real gun.
25. verb OSU entomologist Vaughn Walton points to a brown bug with a body shaped like a medieval shield and distinctive white stripes on its antennae.
26. verb Uranus' magnetic field axis points 60 degrees away from its spin axis.
27. verb Rafael Leitão points out that the insertion of chess in Brazilian schools is a positive fact, but he believes that we are still far from the minimum acceptable level for someone to earn stable incomes as a professional chess player.
28. verb Point the letter.
29. verb Point a chimney.
30. verb Point a gun.
Sentence  
noun
At some points, as in the late 1980s, he reportedly made behind-the-scenes overtures to the Israelis to arrive at some sort of a deal.
As he did, he accumulated points toward his National Guard service requirements.
At the time, guardsmen were required to accumulate a minimum of 50 points to meet their yearly obligation.
According to records released earlier this year, Bush earned 253 points in his first year, May 1968 to May 1969 (since he joined in May 1968, his service thereafter was measured on a May-to-May basis).
Bush earned 340 points in 1969-1970.
[In other words, Bush earned enough points to satisfy the requirements for his entire six year hitch in 1969-1970 alone.
He earned 137 points in 1970-1971.
And he earned 112 points in 1971-1972.
From May 1972 to May 1973, he earned just 56 points — not much, but enough to meet his requirement.
In June and July of 1973, he accumulated 56 points, enough to meet the minimum requirement for the 1973-1974 year.
By that time, however, he had accumulated enough points in each year to cover six years of service.
With regard to a global message, I think that one of the key points around fundamental operating standards are that they are intended to be global in nature, applied to every commodity and every location where we engage in trading activities.
Attached for your review are draft talking points for the Cal Energy Markets conference I'm speaking at on Thursday in SF.
Attached is a rough draft of my talking points for a panel I'll be on at a CEM conference in SF on Thursday afternoon.
The FERC order tomorrow is likely to alter the points somewhat.
verb
Can you accept that the road we are travelling points toward a grim and painful future?
The alibi points to her innocence.
The compass points to the north.
She points out that this latest gesture of the government has multiple meanings.
There is some evidence to suggest that the Bermuda Triangle is a place where a “magnetic” compass sometimes points towards “true” north, as opposed to “magnetic” north.
Flushed with success and eager for the fray, / "Friends," cries Coroebus, "forward; let us go / where Fortune newly smiling, points the way."
As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest.
Scientists say the record heat seen in Europe but also North America and parts of Asia this year points to the influence of man-made climate change, and could become more common in future.
If he points that gun at you, just keep on walking. Don't freeze. It's not a real gun.
OSU entomologist Vaughn Walton points to a brown bug with a body shaped like a medieval shield and distinctive white stripes on its antennae.
Uranus' magnetic field axis points 60 degrees away from its spin axis.
Rafael Leitão points out that the insertion of chess in Brazilian schools is a positive fact, but he believes that we are still far from the minimum acceptable level for someone to earn stable incomes as a professional chess player.
Point the letter.
Point a chimney.
Point a gun.
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