points en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /pɔɪnts/
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Meanings
- (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
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(form-of, plural) plural of point
form of point
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(plural, plural-only) Exaggerated speech or gestures used for emphasis during a performance.
The nineteenth century acting technique of making points was encouraged by the dramaturgy of the melodramas which dominated the stage. The style was in fact difficult to avoid in many popular plays.
2014, Amy Lehman, Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance, page 21:In my concentrated week at Stratford I found that, although as a theatregoer for decades I could not help marking what the old actors called 'points' now and again, […]
1977, Drama: The quarterly theatre review, numbers 124-131, page 16:
Deriveds
experience points · nonpoints · trailing points · pointswoman · pointsperson · facing points · pointsman · trap points · catch points
Synonyms
Translations (26)
ar مَفْصِل (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · izh strelkka (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · is skiptispor (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · he מָסוֹט (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · da sporskifte (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · he מִפְלַג (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · ru стре́лка (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · nl wissel (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · fi vaihde (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · ar مِفْتَاح (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · nb sporveksel (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · it deviatoio (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · es chucho (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · es suiche (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · uk стрі́лка (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · tr makas (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · da skiftespor (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · nb pens (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · it scambio (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · pl rozjazd (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · nn sporveksel (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · sk výhybka (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · de Weiche (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · cs výhybka (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · ro macaz (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another) · fr aiguille (movable rails used to switch a train from one track to another)