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pinpoint
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pinpoint has 3 senses
- pinpoint(n = noun.time) Array - a very brief moment; "they were strangers sharing a pinpoint of time together" is a kind of instant, minute, moment, second
- pinpoint(n = noun.attribute) speck - a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky" is a kind of dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, speckle, spot
- pinpoint(n = noun.artifact) Array - the sharp point of a pin; Array is a kind of point
Derived form verb pinpoint1
Verb pinpoint has 1 sense
- pinpoint(v = verb.possession) nail - locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" is one way to locate, turn up
Derived form noun pinpoint2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pinpoint, n. & v.
--n.
1 the point of a pin.
2 something very small or sharp.
3 (attrib.) a very small. b precise, accurate.
--v.tr. locate with precision (pinpointed the target).
--n.
1 the point of a pin.
2 something very small or sharp.
3 (attrib.) a very small. b precise, accurate.
--v.tr. locate with precision (pinpointed the target).
THESAURUS
pinpoint
abode, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, allocate, apply to, area, ascribe to, assign, assign to, attach to, attribute to, bearings, bench mark, blame, blame for, blame on, bring home to, charge on, charge to, close, collocate, confess, connect with, constant, credit with, crumb, delicate, deploy, determinate, diagnose, direct, dispose, distinguish, district, dot, drop, droplet, emplace, emplacement, even, exact, express, faithful, fasten upon, father upon, fine, finger, fix, fix on, fix upon, fleck, flyspeck, get a fix, gnat, grain, hang on, hole, home in on, home on, identify, impute to, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, install, iota, jot, latitude and longitude, lay to, lieu, locale, locality, localize, locate, location, locus, map, mathematical, microbe, micrometrically precise, microorganism, microscopic, midge, minim, minutia, minutiae, mite, mote, navigate, nice, particle, pick up, pin down, pin on, pinhead, place, place upon, placement, point, point to, position, precise, put in place, receive, recognize, refer to, refined, region, religious, religiously exact, rigid, rigorous, saddle on, saddle with, scan, scientific, scientifically exact, scrap, set down to, settle upon, severe, site, situate, situation, situs, snip, snippet, speck, spot, square, stead, strict, subtle, sweep, tittle, triangulate, trigger, tune in, undeviating, unerring, vanishing point, whereabout, whereabouts, zero in on
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