A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
A wooden footstool.
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
To play the game of cricket.
A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
A tine or snag of an antler.
Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
A peninsula or promontory.
The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
Any projecting extremity of an object.
A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
The difference between two points of the compass.
A railroad switch.
Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
An electric power socket.
A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
The sharp tip of an object.
A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
A note; a tune.
A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
The position of the pitcher and catcher.
The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
Lace worked by the needle.
A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
To repair mortar.
To direct toward an object; to aim.
To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
To face in a particular direction.
To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
To mark with diacritics.
To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
To indicate a probability of something.
To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
To sail close to the wind.
To approximate to the surface; to head.