26984 words

points

2 definitions • 10 examples
1
the toes of a ballet dancer's shoes:

Examples:

She is learning how to dance on her points.
The photo shows her on points and wearing a tutu.
Ballerinas have to learn to stand on their points.
Points enable ballet dancers to balance and spin.
Very young girls shouldn't be dancing on points.
2
a place on a railway track where the rails (= metal bars on which the trains travel) can be moved to allow a train to change from one track to another:

Examples:

The train rattled as it went over the points.
Overhead lines are impractical when trains run through the points at high speed.
More than a hundred trains pass over this set of points every day.
The inquiry heard that signallers failed to switch the points.
The train swayed as it thundered over a set of points.

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