point

be oriented

“The weather vane points North”

a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs

the dot at the left of a decimal fraction

direct into a position for use

“point a gun”

indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

“He pointed to the empty parking space”

the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip

the gun muzzle's direction

“he held me up at the point of a gun”

a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer

“the point of the arrow was due north”

an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole

“a point of information”

a wall socket

an instant of time

“at that point I had to leave”

sail close to the wind