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单词 the point
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the Point
b. the Point n. U.S. colloquial the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > place for training > college for officers > specific
the Point1828
shop1887
ROTC1916
1828 J. F. Cooper Notions Amer. I. 274 To these relics of a former age, must be added the actual and flourishing establishment at the ‘Point’, which comprises a village of academic buildings, barracks, and other adjuncts.
1922 Frontier (Missoula, Montana) Nov. 14 Ada's father had been C.O. when we were in the Point, and nearly every member of the class had been at one time or another in love with her.
1971 C. Fick Danziger Transcript (1973) 167 Sam had worked his way into Dartmouth..and then transferred to the Point.
1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus vi. 57 During..my cow year at the Point,..which would have been our junior year at a regular college, we were ordered to walk a tour for 3 hours on the Quadrangle.
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to the point
l. to the point: apposite, apt, or pertinent.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective]
to (the) purposea1387
pertinentc1390
appliablec1429
relevantc1540
appliant1548
incident1557
relative1579
home1607
effectual1608
ad rem1680
adaptable1718
to the point1817
pointful1898
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 34 Show, that..the evidence which you call for is evidence to the point.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 107 He makes a long speech not much to the point.
1892 Law Times 92 146/2 The notes are short and to the point.
1924 A. Huxley Let. 28 Oct. (1969) 235 Those Barren Leaves..cuts more ice, I think, than the others and is more explicit and to the point.
1962 Sunday Times 1 Apr. 32/8 Dr McCabe asked Groucho for a few words. The resultant Marxism is very much to the point.
1992 D. Pannick Advocates vi. 194 Barristers have not always been prepared voluntarily to obey the essential principle of effective advocacy—keep it short and to the point.
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