Antonyms for pinpoint
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : pin-point |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt |
Definition of pinpoint
Origin :- also pin-point, "point of a pin," 1849, from pin (n.) + point (n.). Taken into aeronautics in sense "place identified from the air," hence verb meaning "locate precisely" (1917), which originally was aviators' slang. Related: Pinpointed; pinpointing. As an adjective, "performed with precisional accuracy," 1944, originally of aerial bombing.
- verb define, locate
- From without the moonbeams flooded it, from within came no pinpoint of light.
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- I caught the pinpoint gleam of what might have been a knife in her hand.
- Extract from : « Beyond the Vanishing Point » by Raymond King Cummings
- Tawney's face was a study of uneasiness, but he clearly could not pinpoint what the trouble was.
- Extract from : « Gold in the Sky » by Alan Edward Nourse
- As they walked he tried to pinpoint directions, but because of the darkness he could not do so.
- Extract from : « Trading Jeff and his Dog » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
- Not many hours before, it had been only a dust mote, a pinpoint of light in the void.
- Extract from : « Sugar Plum » by Reginald Bretnor
- She looked like a fairy god-mother, a pinpoint of fury in the eye.
- Extract from : « Rose MacLeod » by Alice Brown
- Kirk squinted craftily at the pinpoint of light with one closed eye.
- Extract from : « Twelve Times Zero » by Howard Carleton Browne
- From a tiny opening in the door jamb, a pinpoint of light appeared.
- Extract from : « Twelve Times Zero » by Howard Carleton Browne
- You haven't been able to pinpoint the Nipe that easily, have you?
- Extract from : « Anything You Can Do » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- Yet I had won, and what they knew had narrowed my planet-wide search to a pinpoint.
- Extract from : « The Door Through Space » by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Synonyms for pinpoint
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