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Pinpoint V N Point Originally Pin`pɔint V.精确地找出或描述;A.非常精确的 英

单词 pinpoint
音标 ['pin`pɔint]
解释 v.精确地找出或描述;a.非常精确的
红宝书 【英】 v. 精确地找出或描述 (find or describe exactly);adj. 非常精确的 (very exact)
【例】 pinpoint precision
字源 pinpoint (n.)
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.
不择手段背单词 v. 精确指出(原因); 精确指示正确位置
【记】pin大头针, point指出
【反】exam cursorily(粗略的检查)
趣味全助记 【记】pin + point 针尖,有种大头针,专门用来在图上做标记的,找出个东西就用大头针扎在那

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