Word Meanings - LINGUISTICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a linguistic manner; from the point of view of a linguist. Tylor.
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- POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - POINT ALPHABET
An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - POINTLESS
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - LINGUIST
1. A master of the use of language; a talker. I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster. 2. A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - POINTLETED
Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow. - LINGUISTICS
The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology. - POINT D'APPUI
See APPUI - LINGUISTIC; LINGUISTICAL
Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages. - POINTING
The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model. (more info) 1. The act of sharpening. - POINT-BLANK
1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. Jonson. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory. With artillery, the point where the projectile - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - LINGUISTICALLY
In a linguistic manner; from the point of view of a linguist. Tylor. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - TROIS POINT
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - INTERPOINT
To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment. - APPOINTER
One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. - APPOINTMENT
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever - EMBONPOINT
Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent. - COUNTERPOINT
An opposite point Sir E. Sandys. - APPOINTOR
The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.