单词 | outpoint |
释义 | outpointv.ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > pointing out > point out [verb (transitive)] teacha900 showa1225 brevea1377 ensign1477 point1477 note1521 demonstrate1534 appointa1547 to put (also lay) one's (also the) finger on1574 remark1592 outpoint1595 finger1619 clewa1625 notice1627 denote1632 indicate1651 to index outa1796 1595 R. Barnfield Cynthia ii. sig. B1 In yonder Wood. (Which with her finger shee Out-poynting)..Yuanished into some other place. 2. transitive. Nautical. To outdo in pointing; to sail closer to the wind than (another vessel). Occasionally intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > keep ship close to wind > sail closer to wind than outpoint1873 1873 Hunt's Yachting Mag. Aug. 452 Fiona soon griped out on the weather quarter of Egeria;..whilst Garrion out-pointed the lot. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 445/2 The smaller..boat outpointed and outsailed..her..competitor. 1899 Daily News 4 Oct. 3/3 Columbia appeared to be out-pointing Shamrock, but the boats were not very far apart. 1905 J. London Yellow Handkerchief in Tales of Fish Patrol 220 The junk likewise outpointed, and in a couple of minutes I was abreast of the Reindeer and to windward. 2000 Tadpole/Bolger Boats in alt.sailing.asa (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Apr. Of course, it could be that either you're badly underestimating the angle you're being outpointed by. 3. transitive. In various sports and games (esp. boxing): to score more points than, to defeat on points. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > score > score more than outscore1885 outpoint1895 1895 Rep. & Proc. Senate Comm. to investigate Police Dept. N.Y. IV. 4558 ‘Corbett to outpoint three men’, was the language of the advertisement... It was insisted there should be no knockout. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 19 Feb. 7/3 In the second [coursing] ties, Priestlaw, notwithstanding his speed, was out~pointed cleverly by Handsome Creole. 1922 Weekly Disp. 12 Nov. 11 In a ten-rounds boxing contest here to-night Bermondsey Billy Wells (England) outpointed Johnny Tillman. 1932 D. R. Oakley-Hill in Sphere 2 Apr. 14/2 Above its low tiled roofs and crumbling Venetian bastions many minarets cut the sky. But a rival has outpointed them, the stack of a modern olive-oil factory. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 21/3 Scot Ken Buchanan won the world lightweight boxing title Saturday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when he outpointed champion Ismael Laguna of Panama under a blazing sun. 1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 39 Market systems have outpointed their Communist rivals in the satisfaction of consumer needs and wants. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 9 I don't know what I did to make this guy hate me. Maybe it's because I always outpoint him on our comps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1595 |
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