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尖的,锐利的,率直的,显然的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Point \Point\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pointed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pointing}.] [Cf. F. pointer. See {Point}, n.]
1. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or
file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil.
Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.
2. To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at
a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.
3. Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.
Whosoever should be guided through his battles by
Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them. --Pope.
4. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to
point a composition.
5. To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points.
6. To give particular prominence to; to designate in a
special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the
error was pointed out. --Pope.
He points it, however, by no deviation from his
straightforward manner of speech. --Dickens.
7. To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.
8. (Masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by
introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it
to a smooth surface.
9. (Stone Cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
{To point a rope} (Naut.), to taper and neatly finish off the
end by interweaving the nettles.
{To point a sail} (Naut.), to affix points through the eyelet
holes of the reefs.
{To point off}, to divide into periods or groups, or to
separate, by pointing, as figures.
{To point the yards} (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so
that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely. --Totten.
Pointed \Point"ed\, a.
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.
{Pointed arch} (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown.
{Pointed style} (Arch.), a name given to that style of
architecture in which the pointed arch is the predominant
feature; -- more commonly called {Gothic}. --
{Point"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Point"ed*ness}, n.
资料来源 : WordNet®
pointed
adj 1: having a point [ant: {pointless}]
2: direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often
unpleasant; "a pointed critique"; "a pointed allusion to
what was going on"; "another pointed look in their
direction"