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n.
location, position, place, spot
1) to arrive at, reach a ~
2) an assembly; cutoff; focal; jumping-off; pressure; rallying; salient; starting; turning; vanishing; vantage ~
3) the ~ of no return
4) at a ~ (at that ~ in history)
5) for a ~ (for all ~s east)
6) from; to a ~ (from this ~ to that ~)
level
degree
7) to arrive at, reach a ~
8) a high; low ~ (she has reached the high ~ of her career)
9) the boiling; breaking; freezing; melting; saturation ~
10) (up) to a ~ (to a certain ~ they are right)
step, stage
11) at, on the ~ (they were on the ~ of leaving)
argument
topic
12) to bring up, make, raise a ~
13) to argue; cover, discuss; emphasize, stress, underscore; explain; illustrate; review; win a ~
14) to belabor, labor; strain, stretch a ~
15) to drive, hammer, press a ~ home; to make one's ~
16) to concede, yield a ~
17) a controversial; crucial; fine; major; minor; moot; selling; sore; sticking; subtle; talking; telling ~
18) the ~ that + clause (she made the ~ that further resistance was useless)
19) beside the ~ (her remarks were beside the ~)
20) on a ~ (on that ~ we disagree)
21) to the ~ (to speak to the ~)
22) ( misc. ) to come to the ~; ~ by ~; a good ('convincing') ~; to have a ~ ('to have a convincing argument')
core, essence
23) to see the ~ (he never did see the ~ of the joke)
24) to get to the ~
emphasis
25) to make a ~ of (he made a ~ of repeating her name several times)
distinguishing feature
26) smb.'s bad, weak; good, strong ~s
punctuation mark
27) a decimal; exclamation ( AE ) ~
scoring unit
28) to score a ~ (also fig .)
29) to shave ~s ('to manipulate the results of a contest for illegal purposes')
30) ( esp. tennis) a game; match; set ~
31) by ~s (to lead by five ~s)
32) (boxing) on ~s (to win on ~s)
regard
33) in ~ of (in ~ of law; in ~ of fact)
aim, object, purpose, reason
34) to get, see the ~
35) a ~ in (there is no ~ in complaining = there is no ~ complaining)
36) a ~ to (there is no ~ to your going)
37) ( misc. ) what's the ~?
tapered end
38) a sharp ~ (this pencil has a sharp ~)
misc.
39) a ~ of view; at the ~ of a gun; a Brownie ~ ( colloq. ) ('ingratiation in the eyes of a superior') (to make Brownie ~s); a case in ~ ('a pertinent case'); a ~ of order
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v.
1) ( D ; intr. ) to ~ at, to ('to draw attention to') (she ~ed at me)
2) ( d ; tr. ) ('to aim') to ~ at (to ~ a gun at smb.)
3) ( D ; intr. ) to ~ to ('to cite') (they ~ed to poverty as a major problem; the evidence ~s to him as the criminal)