To The Point

Definition: To The Point

To The Point

Adjective

1. Having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; "a list of articles pertinent to the discussion"; "remarks that were to the point".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: To The Point

Agreement

Apt, apposite, pertinent, pat; to the point, to the purpose; happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible.

Attention

Revert to; watch; (expect), (take care of); hearken to, listen to; prick up the ears; have the eyes open, keep the eyes open; come to the point.

Conciseness

Verb: be concise; Adjective: condense; abridge; abstract; come to the point.

Adverb: concisely; Adjective: briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is.

Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.

Direction

Steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at; take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's course; align one's march, allign one's march; to straight, go straight to the point; march on, march on a point.

Disagreement

Inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite; (irrelevant). uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable; unsympathetic.

Importance

Adjective: important; of importance; Noun: momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty; (influential); of note; (repute); notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable; worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring, eventful.

Plainness

Verb: call a spade "a spade"; plunge in medias res; come to the point.

Reasoning,

Open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.

Speciality

Descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the point.

Crosswords: To The Point

I've drained you to the point of death. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point. (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

He said that you didn't need comrades, but I'm attached to that word to the point of tears (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari)

I love it--so get to the point. (The Narrow Margin; writing credit: Earl Felton; Martin Goldsmith)

You don't say much my friend, but when you do it's to the point, and I salute you for it. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

I love you to the point you can no longer take (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Nearly made me sick to the point of throwing up (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David)

Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM)

Right now I'm thinkin that it's to the point she wanna be me (Get Away; performing artist: Jade)

At least not to the point we would think so (Back 2 good; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

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Books

• Get to the Point! Painless Advice for Writing Memos, Letters and E-mails Your Colleagues and Clients Will Understand (reference)

• Directo Al Grano: To the Point, Spanish for English Speakers (reference)

• Sticking to the Point, Vol. 2: A Study of Acupuncture & Moxibustion Formulas & Strategies (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Dining out - a family dinner next to the Point Judith lobster boats. Credit: Fisheries.

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In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat. (reference)

With Czecho-Slovakia: The frontier of August 3, 1914, between Germany and Austria from its junction with the old administrative boundary separating Bohemia and the province of Upper Austria to the point north of the salient of the old province of Austrian Silesia situated at about 8 kilometres east of Neustadt. (reference)

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It is hard to realise all the perseverance and effort which were necessary to bring this cloaca to the point of relative perfection where it now is.

And at last the owner men came to the point.

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Health

Eventually tension mounts to the point where the tic escapes. (references)

Breathing is also severely slowed, sometimes to the point of death. (references)

The disease may worsen to the point where the patient is completely bedridden. (references)

Business

France has since developed the franchise sector to the point of being the leader in Europe in terms of the number of franchise networks. (references)

This practice has developed to the point where having a recognized certification has become the minimum qualification standard for employment. (references)

Japanese equipment manufacturers have aggressively pursued this market niche to the point that Hitachi has become a generic name for chemistry open systems. (references)

Children

Tajikistan

Public education is intended to be free and universal; however, a lack of resources has caused the public school system to deteriorate to the point at which it barely functions. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Bids for government tenders must be on a basis of all costs included to the point where the goods are required. (references)

Bangladesh

The labor-intensive process of shipbreaking for scrap has developed to the point where it now meets most of Bangladesh's domestic steel needs. (references)

Human Rights

Cuba

Opposition groups rejected this accusation because following a 1999 attack, del Pino's state of health had deteriorated to the point where she physically would be incapable of committing such an act. (references)

Latvia

An aging and time consuming judicial process, the lack of plea-bargaining, and a shortage of judges have overloaded the courts to the point where the average case takes 2 years to reach judicial review. (references)

Trade

France

This dutiable value is the "transaction value" plus freight, insurance, commissions, and all other charges and expenses incidental to the sale and delivery of the goods to the point of entry into EU customs territory. (references)

Travel

Honduras

As a result, many Americans find that going straight to the point when negotiating with Hondurans is not well received. (references)

Philippines

Where the Western businessperson thinks that time is gold and wants to get to the point immediately, the Filipino likes to be indirect, talk about mutual friends and family, exchange pleasantries, and joke. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "to the point": be to the point ♦ brief and to the point ♦ brief but to the point ♦ come straight to the point ♦ come to the point ♦ keep to the point ♦ keeping to the point ♦ not to the point ♦ please come to the point ♦ stick to the point. Additional references.

Albanian

me vend (apposite, appositely, apt, happy, Pat, pertinent, proper, reasonable, right, seemly, suitable, welcome). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في صميم الموضوع (come to the point), ‏هذا هو المفيد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

уместен (advisable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, felicitous, germane, good, happy, neat, opportune, pertinent, poignant, pointful, proper, relevant, timely, well timed, well-judged), на въпроса. (various references)

Chinese 

�'利 (incisive; to the point, sharp), 絮叨 (long winded; not getting to the point, talk without getting to the point), 不邊際 (irrelevant, neither here nor there, not to the point, wide of the mark). (various references)

Czech

do urèité míry (to a certain extent). (various references)

Dutch

gevat (lively, witty), ad rem (lively, witty). (various references)

Esperanto

trafe reaganta, trafe dirita, spritresponda, rapidresponda. (various references)

Finnish

sattuvavasti, sattuva (appropriate, apt, telling, triking), osuva (appropriate, apt, pertinent), naseva (telling smart), asiallisesti (in a matter-of-fact way). (various references)

French

venir au fait (come to the point), une dislocation coin est ancrée en un point de son plan de glissement où la ligne de dislocation dérive vers un système de glissement non actif (a slip dislocation is anchored to the point in its slip plane where the line turns out of the plane into some immobile orientation), ne pas s'écarter de sujet (come to the point). (various references)

German

treffend (apposite, apt, felicitous, happily, incisive, striking). (various references)

Greek 

μέχρι κάποιο σημείο. (various references)

Hebrew 

לע� ין (interest, relevant). (various references)

Hungarian

lényegre törõ. (various references)

Indonesian

sebatas. (various references)

Italian

una dislocazione a cuneo è ancorata in un punto del suo piano di scorrimento dove la linea di dislocazione devia verso un sistema di scorrimento non attivo (a slip dislocation is anchored to the point in its slip plane where the line turns out of the plane into some immobile orientation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

要�'得る (to be to the point), 要�'得ている (to be to the point), 凍えそうに�'い (cold to the point of freezing), 単刀直入 (frankness, going right to the point, point-blank, without beating about the bush). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

た�"とうちょくにゅう (frankness, going right to the point, point-blank, without beating about the bush), よう�'える (to be to the point), よう�'えている (to be to the point). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ethay ointpay

Romanian

vino la subiect (come to the point), vã rog sã treceţi la subiect (please come to the point). (various references)

Russian 

уместно. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preći na stvar (come to the point), neodređeno (indefinitely, point: not to the point), do tačke (point: to the point). (various references)

Spanish

una dislocación deslizante está anclada a un punto de su plano de deslizamiento, en el que la línea se desvía del plano hacia un sistema de deslizamiento no activo (a slip dislocation is anchored to the point in its slip plane where the line turns out of the plane into some immobile orientation), ir al grano (come to the point). (various references)

Swedish

träffande (apposite, appropriate, apt, happy, hitting, pertinent), relevant (germane (to), germane to, pertinent, relevant). (various references)

Turkish

yerinde olmak (be indicated, be only just, be to the point), sadede gelmek (come to the point, get down to brass tacks, hark back), meseleye gelmek (come to the point), konuya sadık kalmak (keep to the point, stick to the point), konudan sapmamak (keep to the point, stick to one's text, stick to the point), konudan ayrılmamak (stick to the point), kısa ve özlü (brief but to the point, pithy, sententious, tight), isabetli olmak (be to the point). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: ethion, ophite, option, photon, pointe, potent, potion, tiptoe.

-5 letters: inept, netop, opine, petit, petti, petto, phone, phono, photo, pinot, pinto, piton, point, potto, tenth, thein, thine, tithe, tooth, tophe, tophi, topoi.

+2 letters: photosetting.

+4 letters: photosynthetic.

+5 letters: photoexcitation.