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point-device

[ point-di-vahys ]

adverb

  1. completely; perfectly; exactly.


adjective

  1. perfect; precise; scrupulously nice or neat.

point-device

adjective

  1. very correct or perfect; precise
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adverb

  1. to perfection; perfectly; precisely
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of point-device1

1325–75; Middle English at point devis arranged to a point, i.e., to a nicety, to perfection; device
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Word History and Origins

Origin of point-device1

C14: perhaps from old French à point devis to the point arranged
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Example Sentences

As tapestry Pricked out by women's needles; point-device As saints in fitted haloes.

A pretty, pithy, and most pleasant project!Who would not strain a point of neighbourhoodFor such a point device?

He appeared after a while, extremely correct and point device, grave but polite.

Officers, some only recognizable by the Sam Browne belt, others spruce and point-device, passed by.

He is a little too point device, too obviously got up for the occasion!

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