sharp end | attention and management implying responsibility for safety |
a wall socket | an impetuous rush toward someone or something |
the gun muzzle's direction | a special assignment that is given to a person or group |
a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs | a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time |
the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield |
an outstanding characteristic | (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense |
a distinguishing or individuating characteristic | a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something |
a geometric element that has position but no extension | request for payment of a debt |
an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence |
the object of an activity | the swift release of a store of affective force |
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object |
a brief version of the essential meaning of something | a person committed to your care |
a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons |
a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list | financial liabilities (such as a tax) |
the dot at the left of a decimal fraction | the price charged for some article or service |
the precise location of something; a spatially limited location | |
a promontory extending out into a large body of water | |
one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan | |
a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch | |
the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest | |
any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass | |
a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect | |
a V shape | |
a very small circular shape | |
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | |
an instant of time | |