point

Usage

• appoint

  When you appoint someone, you choose that person for a job or position.

• pointless

  If someone does something that is pointless, there is no reason behind or meaning for doing it.

• appointment

  The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

• counterpoint

  to show differences when compared

• disappoint

  fail to meet the hopes or expectations of

• disappointed

  Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

• disappointment

  The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.

• needlepoint

  a craft that uses needles to do embroidery

• point

  indicate a place, direction, person, or thing

• pointed

  direct and obvious in meaning or reference

• pointedly

  in such a manner as to make something clearly evident

• pointer

  One who, or that which, points.The hand of a timepiece.One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

• pointlessness

  the state of having no reason for doing something

• pointy

  of having a sharp end or point

• standpoint

  a mental position from which things are viewed

• viewpoint

  a mental position from which things are viewed