You use point to refer to something that someone has said or written.

If you say that someone has a point, or if you take their point, you mean that you accept that what they have said is important and should be considered.

The point of what you are saying or discussing is the most important part that provides a reason or explanation for the rest.

If you ask what the point of something is, or say that there is no point in it, you are indicating that a particular action has no purpose or would not be useful.

A point is a detail, aspect, or quality of something or someone.

A point is a particular place or position where something happens.

You use point to refer to a particular time, or to a particular stage in the development of something.

The point of something such as a pin, needle, or knife is the thin, sharp end of it.

In spoken English, you use point to refer to the dot or mark in a decimal number that separates the whole numbers from the fractions.

In some sports, competitions, and games, a point is one of the single marks that are added together to give the total score.

The points of the compass are directions such as North, South, East, and West.

On a railway track, the points are the levers and rails at a place where two tracks join or separate. The points enable a train to move from one track to another.

A point is an electric socket.

If you point at a person or thing, you hold out your finger towards them in order to make someone notice them.

If you point something at someone, you aim the tip or end of it towards them.

If something points to a place or points in a particular direction, it shows where that place is or it faces in that direction.

If something points to a particular situation, it suggests that the situation exists or is likely to occur.

If you point to something that has happened or that is happening, you are using it as proof that a particular situation exists.

When builders point a wall, they put a substance such as cement into the gaps between the bricks or stones in order to make the wall stronger and seal it.

If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.

When someone comes to the point or gets to the point, they start talking about the thing that is most important to them.

If you make your point or prove your point, you prove that something is true, either by arguing about it or by your actions or behaviour.

If you make a point of doing something, you do it in a very deliberate or obvious way.

If you are on the point of doing something, you are about to do it.

Something that is to the point is relevant to the subject that you are discussing, or expressed neatly without wasting words or time.

If you say that something is true up to a point, you mean that it is partly but not completely true.