points

1. A discrete division of something.
2. A sharp extremity.
3. One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
4. A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
5. A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
6. Lace worked by the needle.

   point de Venise; Brussels point

7. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
8. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.

   The dog came to a point.

9. The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
10. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
11. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
12. A vaccine point.
13. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.

1. To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

   It's rude to point at other people.

2. To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.

   The arrow of a compass points north

3. To face in a particular direction.
4. (sometimes figurative) To direct toward an object; to aim.

   to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort

5. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.

   to point a dart, a pencil, or (figuratively) a moral

6. To indicate a probability of something.
7. To repair mortar.
8. 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.
10. To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.

    If he asks for food, point him toward the refrigerator.

11. To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
12. To mark with diacritics.
13. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.

    to point a composition

14. To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
15. To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
16. To sail close to the wind.

    Bear off a little, we're pointing.

17. To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
18. (of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
19. To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.

verb

To appoint.

1. Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
2. The two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow current to flow or not through the ignition coil. Each surface is called a point singular (there's usually a moving point which is pushed by the distributor cam and a fixed point which isn't), but they're made together in a unit and serviced or replaced that way and are hence normally called points plural.