point

/pɔɪnt/

意味: 点、要点

例文: Momo missed the point of the tea lecture.
　　  モモはお茶講義の要点を理解し損ねた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: point of view(視点), point out(指摘する), turning point(転機)

定義: 物事の特定の位置や場所、または意見や考えを示すための要点や主題。何かを指し示す行為や、議論や説明の中心となる部分を指すこともあります。

pointは約3,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a geometric element that has position but no extension
Noun: the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
Noun: a brief version of the essential meaning of something
Noun: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
Noun: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
Noun: an instant of time
Noun: the object of an activity
Noun: a V shape
Noun: a very small circular shape
Noun: the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
Noun: a promontory extending out into a large body of water
Noun: a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
Noun: a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
Noun: an outstanding characteristic
Noun: sharp end
Noun: any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
Noun: a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
Noun: 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
Noun: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Noun: a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
Noun: the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
Noun: the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
Noun: a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
Noun: the gun muzzle’s direction
Noun: a wall socket
Noun: a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
Verb: indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
Verb: be oriented
Verb: direct into a position for use
Verb: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
Verb: be a signal for or a symptom of
Verb: sail close to the wind
Verb: mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
Verb: mark with diacritics
Verb: mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
Verb: be positionable in a specified manner
Verb: intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
Verb: indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
Verb: give a point to
Verb: repair the joints of bricks

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She made a good point during the meeting.(彼女は会議で良い指摘をした。)
The mountain peak is the highest point here.(この辺りで山頂が一番高い地点だ。)
Please point to the correct answer on the board.(正しい答えを黒板で指してください。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: a point is defined by its coordinates
Noun: she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street
Noun: get to the point
Noun: he missed the point of the joke
Noun: life has lost its point
Noun: several of the details are similar
Noun: a point of information
Noun: a remarkable degree of frankness
Noun: at what stage are the social sciences?
Noun: at that point I had to leave
Noun: what is the point of discussing it?
Noun: the cannibal’s teeth were filed to sharp points
Noun: a row of points
Noun: draw lines between the dots
Noun: he scored 20 points in the first half
Noun: a touchdown counts 6 points
Noun: they sailed south around the point
Noun: he noticed an item in the New York Times
Noun: she had several items on her shopping list
Noun: the main point on the agenda was taken up first
Noun: his acting was one of the high points of the movie
Noun: he stuck the point of the knife into a tree
Noun: he broke the point of his pencil
Noun: he checked the point on his compass
Noun: in England they call a period a stop
Noun: the point of the arrow was due north
Noun: he knows my bad points as well as my good points
Noun: he held me up at the point of a gun
Verb: I showed the customer the glove section
Verb: He pointed to the empty parking space
Verb: he indicated his opponents
Verb: The weather vane points North
Verb: the dancers toes pointed outward
Verb: point a gun
Verb: He charged his weapon at me
Verb: These symptoms indicate a serious illness
Verb: Her behavior points to a severe neurosis
Verb: The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued
Verb: point the letter
Verb: The gun points with ease
Verb: He aimed his fists towards his opponent’s face
Verb: criticism directed at her superior
Verb: direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself
Verb: the dog pointed the dead duck
Verb: The candles are tapered
Verb: point a chimney

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): aim, bespeak, betoken, breaker point, channelise, channelize, charge, compass point, decimal point, degree, designate, detail, direct, distributor point, dot, full point, full stop, guide, gunpoint, head, indicate, item, level, luff, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, orient, peak, percentage point, period, place, point, point in time, pointedness, power point, repoint, sharpen, show, signal, spot, stage, steer, stop, taper, target, tip

Antonyms(反意語): unpointedness

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): aim, be, change shape, characteristic, component, contact, control, convex shape, direction, disk, end, fact, gun muzzle, indicate, inform, lie, linear unit, loan, location, mark, mathematical notation, meaning, measure, part, promontory, punctuation, relevance, repair, sail, state, tag, taper, tell, unit of measurement, wall socket

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abound, absorption unit, acceleration unit, accept, account, account for, acquaint, act, action, advise, ampersand, angular unit, announce, answer, apostrophe, appear, applicability, archine, area unit, arrow, aspect, astronomy unit, back, badge, bake, balance, bank loan, base, basis, be well, be-all and end-all, beat, begin, being, belong, bend, bespeak, bilocation, binary notation, bit, bitter end, bitthead, body length, brace, bracket, brand, breathe, brinell number, broad arrow, bulge, business, butt, buy, cable, calibrate, call loan, call mark, call the shots, camber, cap, caret, case, chain, charge, charm, check mark, cicero, clean, cleavage, cobble, code, cogency, cohere, colon, come in for, come in handy, comma, compact, compare, compass point, compatibility, computer memory unit, condition, conditionality, conflict, confuse, connect, consist, contain, continue, cordage, corner, cost, count, cover, cubit, curability, cut, cut across, damnation, dangerousness, darn, dead letter, death, decimal notation, decimal point, deck, definite quantity, deform, degree, denier, denounce, depend, dependence, deserve, detail, diacritical mark, digress, dinge, diopter, direct loan, directness, disabuse, disagree, disorder, distribute, distributor point, ditto mark, diverge, dollar mark, dominate, draw, draw a bead on, duodecimal notation, dystopia, earth, east, effect, electrical contact, electromagnetic unit, electrostatic unit, em, employment, en, end, end point, enlargement, entasis, exclamation mark, explain, explosive unit, exponent, fall, familiarize, fathom, feel, feeling, figure, fill, fill in, finger, finish, fistmele, fit, fixed-point notation, flank, flatten, flex, floating-point notation, flux, foot, footer, force unit, freedom, front, frontage, fundamental quantity, furlong, gape, general, geometric pace, go, govern, grace, grail, grammatical meaning, granulate, gravitate, ground state, hail, half mile, hallmark, handbreadth, hang, harness, head, heel, here, heterozygosity, hexadecimal notation, hold, hold one’s own, hold sway, home, home loan, homozygosity, hoodoo, hostility, hum, hyphen, illumination, immaturity, imminence, impart, impend, imperfection, inaction, incarnate, inch, incompatibility, incurability, indefinite quantity, indicate, indirectness, infix notation, inform, inoculate, installment credit, instruct, integrity, intension, intent, internationalize, intervene, intervertebral disc, introduce, iridesce, isomerism, item, jibe, jumble, jungle, kalemia, karat, kill, kos, langley, language unit, lap, lea, league, leeward, lend, let go, level, lexical meaning, li, lie, ligne, line, linear unit, link, litter, localize, loiter, long measure, look, look out on, lubricate, luff, magnetization, make, make sense, manage, mass unit, materiality, matter of fact, maturity, measure, measuring unit, mediate, medium, megaflop, member, merchantability, mesh, metric linear unit, metric unit, mil, mile, miler, miles per gallon, military pace, mips, misinform, monetary unit, monopolize, mope, moral, motion, motionlessness, mull, nail, nark, narrate, nationhood, nautical linear unit, neotony, nerve ending, nestle, node, nonbeing, north, northeast, northwest, nuance, numeration system, object, obligation, observation, octal notation, octane number, office, omnipotence, omniscience, opposition, order, orient, orientation, ornamentation, osculate, outer space, outpoint, overtone, owe, ownership, p-n junction, pain unit, palm, parenthesis, parenthesis-free notation, participation loan, particular, pass, patch, paternity, pay, perch, perfection, period, personal loan, piece, playing period, plot element, plurality, point, pole, polyvalence, precede, preoccupy, preside, press, pressure unit, printing unit, probability, projection, promise, prompt, proof, propagandize, prove, publicize, punctuation, put out, quantum, quarter mile, question mark, quotation mark, radical, rage, railhead, range, rank, rate, readiness, real estate loan, reason, receivership, recognize, recommendation, referent, reflect, regiment, region, regret, relate, relationship, relative quantity, remain, remainder, remonstrate, repeat, report, represent, representation, rest, retard, revocation, ride, ridge, robustness, roll, roll up, roman pace, run, run into, rurality, rut, safeness, saving grace, score, scud, seat, seaward, seem, seethe, sell, semicolon, sense, separation, sharpen, shine, short circuit, sight, sign, signalize, situation, skillfulness, slant, sodom, sole, solidus, somewhere, sound bow, sound unit, south, southeast, southwest, space, span, sparkle, specify, spill, squat, stagnate, stand, stand by, start, status, stay, steer, stick, stink, streak, subpart, substance, subtend, suck, suffer, suit, survey mile, swim, swing, swung dash, symbolization, system of measurement, tack, taper, target, teach, telephone unit, tell, telomere, temperature unit, temporary state, tend, teraflop, terminal, terminus, test, testify, there, thing, time interval, time loan, time unit, tinker, tip, top, total, translate, transplant, tread, tribalism, trim, trouble-shoot, truth, turgor, turn, twist, umbo, undeceive, underlie, understate, unemployment, unfold, union, unit, unit of viscosity, unpointedness, unwrap, update, utilization, utopia, value, vamp, vara, verst, volume, volume unit, volunteer, want, warn, wash, wear ship, weather, weight unit, west, whereabouts, wild, wind, windward, wiper, wise up, work, work unit, yard, yardarm, yarder

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): abutment, acme, acuminate, address, advantage, agenda item, antinode, arrival time, arrowhead, attractor, barb, beginning, blind spot, bode, bottom line, cardinal compass point, celestial point, center, channel, chokepoint, climax, conn, corner, crab, crossing, crux, cusp, date, deadline, departure time, diamond point, distance, dock, east by north, east by south, east northeast, east southeast, end, extent, finger, focus, geographic point, ground zero, head, helm, hilum, hot spot, incidental, intercept, intersection, inventory item, ladder, line item, mark, match point, mcburney’s point, midair, middle, midterm, military position, minutia, moment, navel, navigate, news item, nib, node, nook and cranny, north by east, north by west, north northeast, north northwest, northeast, northeast by east, northeast by north, northwest, northwest by north, northwest by west, park, phase, pike, pinpoint, place, plane, point, point after, position, pressure point, pull over, punctum, quickening, rallying point, range in, reflect, respect, resultant, run-time, selling point, set point, sheer, show time, signalize, south by east, south by west, south southeast, south southwest, southeast, southeast by east, southeast by south, southwest, southwest by south, southwest by west, spearhead, spike, stand out, standard of living, starboard, state of the art, sticking point, suspension point, talking point, technicality, term, then, topographic point, trichion, ultimacy, vanishing point, west by north, west by south, west northwest, west southwest, widow’s peak

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: aim, channelisation, detail, dot, guide, head, heading, indicant, indication, indicative, indicator, itemise, itemize, luff, maneuverable, maneuverer, manoeuvre, place, point, pointed, pointer, signal, steerage, steerer, steering, taper, target

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: medical, science

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, online

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: