The point

Definition

point /pↄÇnt/ n ၁။ [C] အဖ်ား။ အစြန္း။ ထိပ္ဖ်ား။ the point of a pin/ knife/ pencil ❍ the point of the jaw (eg as the target for a punch in boxing) ❍ The stake had been sharpened to a vicious-looking point. See also GUNPOINT, KNIFE-POINT ၂။ [C] (often point as part of a name) အငူ။ သန္လ်က္စြန္း။ The ship rounded the point ❍ Pagoda Point. ၃။ [C] (က) အစက္။ အေျပာက္။ အမွတ္။ a decimal point ❍ Two point six (2.6) means the same as 2 6 / 10 . (ခ) အစက္။ အေျပာက္။ stars seen as points of light in a dark sky. See also FOCAL POINT ၄။ [C]( esp geometry ) အမွတ္။ Lines AB and CD intersect at the point P. See also VANISHING-POINT ၅။ [C] ေနရာ။ an assembly/ a rallying/ a meeting point ❍ Guards had been posted at several points around the perimeter. See also VANTAGE POINT ၆။ [C] အခိုက္။ ခဏ။ တစ္ခ်ိန္။ He was at the point of death (ie about to die). ❍ At one point I though she was going to refuse. ❍ The argument started to get very violent, at which point I left. See also TURNING-POINT ၇။ [C] အမွတ္။ အဆင့္။ boiling-/ freezing-/ melting-point ❍ reach danger/ crisis point ❍ We had reached the point where some of our assets had to be sold off. ❍ There comes a point when some action is necessary. ၈။ [C] သံလိုက္အိမ္ေျမႇာင္ ဒိုင္ခြက္ရိွ အရပ္ ၃၂မ်က္ႏွာျပေသာ အမွတ္မ်ားအနက္ တစ္မွတ္။ အရပ္မ်က္ႏွာ။ the cardinal points (ie the four main points: N,E, S and W) ❍ all points of the compass. အရပ္ ရွစ္မ်က္ႏွာ။ ၉။ [C] (က) တိုင္းတာမႈတစ္ရပ္အတြက္ သံုးေသာ အမွတ္။ ၫႊန္မွတ္။ a point on a scale ❍ The pound fell several points on the international markets today. (ခ) ၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္ရမွတ္။ ရမွတ္။ အမွတ္။ We need one more point to win the game. ၁၀။ [C] အခ်က္။ the main points of a story/ a discussion/ an argument ❍ points of difference/ similarity/ agreement/ disagreement ❍ explain a theory point by point (ie explain each individual idea in it, in order) ❍ One point in favour of her plan is its cheapness. ၁၁။ [C] (က) တင္ျပခ်က္။ အခ်က္။ Dr Rose made a number of interesting points in his speech. (ခ) ထိမိေသာအခ်က္။ ‘But she might not agree. ’ ‘You've got a point there/ That's a point (ie I had not thought of that)’. See also TALKING-POINT ၁၂။ (usu the point ) [sing] အဓိကအခ်က္။ ဦးတည္ခ်က္။ The point (at issue) is this … ❍ Let's stop discussing trivial details and come/ get to the point. ❍ The speaker kept wandering off/ away from the point. ၁၃။ [U, sing] ဆိုလိုခ်က္။ လိုရင္း။ အက်ဳိး။ get/ see/ miss the point of sth ❍ I'm afraid you've missed my point. ❍ There's no/ not much point in complaining; they never take any notice ၁၄။ [U] (fml) ထိေရာက္မႈ။ words/ remarks that have/ lack point. ၁၅။ [C] စ႐ိုက္လကၡဏာ။ sb's good/ strong/ bad/ weak points ❍ I'm afraid honesty is not his strong point (ie he is not honest). See also SELLING-POINT ၁၆။ [C] ( Brit ) ပလတ္ေပါက္။ a power/ cooker/ shaver point. ၁၇။ points [pl] (ဘဲေလးကသူ၏) ေျခဖ်ား။ dancing on points. ၁၈။ points [pl] ( Brit ) ( US switch [C]) မီးရထား လမ္းေၾကာင္း တစ္ခုမွတစ္ခုသို႔ ေျပာင္းေပးေသာ သံလမ္းေသာ့ခ်က္။ change the points. ၁၉။ [U] ပံုႏိွပ္စာလံုး အရြယ္အစား။ ပိြဳင့္။ Choose a smaller font size, eg 9 point. v ၁။ ~ (st/ to sb/ sth) လက္ညိႇဳးျဖင့္ ၫႊန္ျပသည္။ လက္ညိႇဳးထိုး သည္။ It's rude to point. ❍ ‘That's the man who did it,’ she said, pointing at me. ❍ He pointed to a tower on the distant horizon. ၂။ ၫႊန္ျပသည္။ A compass needle points north. ❍ The clock hands pointed to twelve (ie It was NOON or midnight). ၃။ ~ sth (at/ towards sb/ sth) ခ်ိန္သည္။ ရြယ္သည္။ (လက္ညိႇဳး) ထိုးသည္။ point one's finger (at sb/ sth) ❍ point a gun at sb ❍ point a telescope at/ towards the moon. ၄။ မ်က္ႏွာမူသည္။ လွည့္သည္။ A hedgehog's spines point backwards. ၅။ ၫႊန္ျပသည္။ ထြန္းျပ သည္။ a story that points a moral. ၆။ (အုတ္တစ္ခ်ပ္ ႏွင့္ တစ္ခ်ပ္အၾကား) ႏွာေၾကာင္းလိုက္သည္။ ႏွာသပ္သည္။ အုတ္ကြက္ေဖာ္သည္။ point a wall/ chimney. ❏ beside the point [ IDM ] မသက္ဆိုင္။ ❏ have one's points [ IDM ] ေကာင္းသည့္ဘက္ေတာ့ ရိွသည္။ Taking a holiday in November has its points. ❏ if/ when it comes to the point [ IDM ] တကယ္တမ္း က်လာလွ်င္။ အေရးႀကံဳလာလွ်င္။ If it came to the point, would you sacrifice your job for your principles? ❏ in point of fact [ IDM ] တကယ္ေတာ့။ အမွန္အားျဖင့္။ He said he would pay, but in point of fact he has no money. ❏ make one's point [ IDM ] ဆိုစရာရိွတာဆိုသည္။ All right, you've made your point —now keep quiet and let the others say what they think. ❏ make a point of doing sth [ IDM ] မပ်က္မကြက္ (လုပ္) သည္။ မွတ္မွတ္သားသား (လုပ္)သည္။ I make a point of checking that all the windows are shut whenever I go out. ❏ on the point of sth/ doing sth [ IDM ] မည့္ဆဲဆဲ။ …မယ္လုပ္တုန္း။ I was on the point of going to bed when you rang. ❍ The company is on the point of collapse. ❏ on points [ IDM ] အမွတ္အရ။ Arsenal are level on points, but have played fewer games. ❏ point- duty n [U] ( Brit ) (လမ္းဆံုလမ္းခြ စသည္၌) ယာဥ္ထိန္းတာဝန္။ ❏ pointed adj ၁။ ခြၽန္ေသာ။ a pointed instrument/ tool ❍ a pointed hat. ၂။ ေျဗာင္ (ေထာက္ျပျခင္း၊ ေဝဖန္ျခင္း)။ a pointed comment/ remark/ rebuke ❍ She made some pointed references to his careless work. ❏ pointedly adv (ဆႏၵ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ေဖာ္ျပလိုေသာအားျဖင့္) စူးစူးစိုက္စိုက္ (ၾကည့္သည္)။ She stared pointedly at me. ❍ He looked pointedly at the door (eg indicating that I should open it, close it, leave, etc). ❏ point a/ the finger (at sb) [ IDM ] ( infml ) လက္ညိႇဳးထိုး သည္။ ေျဗာင္စြပ္စြဲသည္။ ❏ pointing n [U] (အုတ္နံရံ၊ အုတ္တိုင္) ႏွာေၾကာင္း။ Check the pointing is in good condition. ❏ a point of departure [ IDM ] ၁။ ခရီးစရာအရပ္။ ခရီးထြက္အံ့ဆဲဆဲ။ ၂။ ဦးဆံုးစကိုင္သည့္အရာ။ Let's take ‘Das Kapital’ as a point of departure for our survey of Marxism. ❏ a point of honour [ IDM ] သိကၡာပုဒ္သဖြယ္ ေစာင့္စည္းအပ္ ေသာ အမႈ။ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာကို အေလးအနက္ထား၍ ေစာင့္စည္းမႈ။ I always pay my debts punctually— it's a point of honour with me. ❏ the point of no return [ IDM ] ေဖာင္ဖ်က္လိုက္ျခင္း။ ❏ point of order n ( pl points of order ) ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ၊ စည္းေဝးပြဲ စည္းမ်ဥ္း။ On a point of order, Mr Chairman, can associate members vote on this matter? ❏ point of view n ( pl points of view ) ႐ႈေထာင့္။ သေဘာထား။ This is unacceptable from my point of view. ❍ What's your point of view on nuclear power? ❏ point sth out (to sb) [ PHRV ] ၫႊန္ျပသည္။ ေထာက္ျပ သည္။ point out a mistake ❍ point out to sb the stupidity of their behaviour ❍ I must point out that further delay would be unwise. ❏ point taken [ IDM ] (ေထာက္ျပသည့္အခ်က္ကို လက္ခံ ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပသည့္စကား)။ မွန္ပါေပတယ္။ ❏ point to sth [ PHRV ] ၫႊန္ျပေနသည္။ All the evidence points to his guilt. ❏ point-to-point n ( Brit ) သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ တာအတြင္း အခက္အခဲမ်ား ေက်ာ္လႊားစီးသြားရေသာ ျမင္းၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ ❏ point sth up [ PHRV ] မီးေမာင္းထိုးျပသည္။ The recent disagreement points up the differences between the two sides. ❏ point the way (to/ towards sth) [ IDM ] အလားအလာ ေဖာ္ျပေနသည္။ tax reforms which point the way to a more prosperous future. ❏ take sb's point [ IDM ] (တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ဘက္မွ) ရပ္တည္ေထာက္ခံသည္။ ❏ to the point [ IDM ] လိုရင္းသို႔ ေရာက္သည္။ အခ်က္က် သည္။ remarks that were very much to the point ❍ His speech was short and to the point. ❏ to the point of sth [ IDM ] …ဟု ဆိုရေလာက္ေအာင္ပင္။ His manner was abrupt to the point of rudeness. ❏ up to a (certain) point [ IDM ] (တစ္စံုတစ္ရပ္ေသာ) အတိုင္းအတာအထိ။ I agree with you up to a (certain) point.

Examples

1. I disagree with you on a couple of important points.
2. [point by point] : Let’s go over the plan point by point.
3. My point is that we’re spending too much time on details and forgetting the big issues.
4. What’s your point?
5. [point of] : What is the point of your visit?
6. [see/get the point] : I’m sorry – I just don’t see the point of doing this.
7. [not any/no point] : I see no point in discussing this any further.
8. [someone’s strong/weak points] : Subtlety is not one of his strong points.
9. [the finer points] : He spent his spare time coaching youngsters on the finer points of soccer.
10. [it has its points] : I complain about working different hours from everyone else
11. but it has its points.
12. [at this/that point] : At that point we all got up and walked out of the room.
13. [at this/that point in time] : At this point in time we can’t afford to hire any more people.
14. The freezing/boiling point of water
15. [reach a point] : We’re just trying to reach a point where both sides will sit down together and talk.
16. [to the point of] : His behaviour was strange to the point of being considered unacceptable by his employers.
17. We’ll meet at a point halfway between here and your hotel.
18. A point where three different countries meet
19. Lines C and D intersect at point E.
20. Our team is two points behind.
21. They won on points (=by getting the most points).
22. Interest rates fell by 2 percentage points.
23. His eyes narrowed to glittering points of light.
24. The point of the knife/sword/scissors