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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. One of the four principal "points" of a compass b. A change in the speed of the ropes on a winding drum, which occurs atcertain definite intervals during the winding cycle. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Importance | Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CARDINAL POINT |
| Specialty definitions using "CARDINAL POINT": compass points. (references) |
Expression using "CARDINAL POINT": cardinal point effect. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cardinal point | 21 |
cardinal point travel | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CARDINAL POINT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ekkoforstærkende effekt (cardinal point effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ilmansuunta (point of the compass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | effet de renforcement d'échos (cardinal point effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kardinalpunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 基点 (datum point, reference point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きて" (a quick wit, clever, datum point, quick-wittedness, reference point, starting point, tact, your store or shop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardinalcay ointpay punct cardinal (point). (various references) страна света, сторона света, главный румб. (various references) dört ana yönden biri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | tumu. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-i-l-n-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-3 letters: noncapital, patricidal. | |
-4 letters: antinodal, antipodal, cantorial, carnation, clintonia, cnidarian, dictional, diplontic, doctrinal, draconian, indicator, nicotiana, nonracial, patrician, pictorial, piratical, placation, planation, plication, podiatric, poinciana, prolactin, radiation, trainload. | |
-5 letters: actinian, actinoid, adaption, adnation, antiarin, anticold, antidora, antiporn, cantonal, cantraip, cardinal, cartload, cilantro, conidial, conidian, contrail, coplanar, cropland, daltonic, diaconal, diatonic, dicrotal, dilation, dioptral, dioptric. | |
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