poi

　　1.a geometric element that has position but no extension;

　　a point is defined by its coordinates

　　2.the precise location of something; a spatially limited location;

　　she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street

　　3.a brief version of the essential meaning of something;

　　get to the point

　　4.a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;

　　a remarkable degree of frankness

　　5.an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;

　　several of the details are similar

　　6.an instant of time;

　　at that point I had to leave

　　7.the object of an activity;

　　what is the point of discussing it?

　　8.a V shape;

　　the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points

　　9.a very small circular shape;

　　a row of points

　　10. the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest;

　　he scored 20 points in the first half

　　11. a promontory extending out into a large body of water;

　　they sailed south around the point

　　12. 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

　　13. a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect

　　14. an outstanding characteristic;

　　his acting was one of the high points of the movie

　　15. sharp end;

　　he stuck the point of the knife into a tree

　　16. any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass;

　　he checked the point on his compass

　　17. a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch

　　18. 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

　　19. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;

　　the point of the arrow was due north

　　20. the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp point

　　21. a distinguishing or individuating characteristic;

　　he knows my bad points as well as my good points

　　22. the gun muzzle's direction;

　　he held me up at the point of a gun

　　23. a wall socket

　　24. a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts distributor points and current flows to the spark plugs