| 词汇 | pinpoint |
| 释义 | pinpoint verb[ T ] uk /ˈpɪn.pɔɪnt/ us /ˈpɪn.pɔɪnt/ C2 to find out or say the exact position in space or time of something: 准确指出，确定（位置或时间） It is not possible to pinpoint precisely the time of death.准确地确定死亡时间是不可能的。 C2 to discover or describe the exact facts about something: 查明；准确描述 Emergency workers at the site are still unable to pinpoint the cause of the explosion.现场的急救人员仍然无法确定爆炸的原因。 Finding and discovering ascertain break (fresh/new) groundidiom breakthrough bring something to lightidiom catch someone red-handedidiom flush someone/something out fossick found geocache geocaching homing plumb rake something out red-handed rediscover rediscovery refind sniff suss winkle something/someone out You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Defining & explaining pinpoint noun[ C ] uk /ˈpɪn.pɔɪnt/ us /ˈpɪn.pɔɪnt/ a very small spot of something: 极小的点 a pinpoint of light光点 Words meaning small pieces and amounts by a noseidiom clipping crumb dab of something dash dollop grain ort paring peewee pinch potsherd skinny spark tad thimbleful tidbit tiddler titbit trace pinpoint adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈpɪn.pɔɪnt/ us /ˈpɪn.pɔɪnt/ very exact: 确切的，精确的 The computer will calculate your position with pinpoint accuracy.计算机能够精确地计算出你的位置。 Accurate and exact accuracy accurate accurately aright authoritative dime for all the worldidiom Goldilocks got it in one!idiom in so many wordsidiom infallible literally nose precisely slap spot on strict strictly strictly speakingidiom superaccurate pinpoint | American Dictionarypinpoint verb[ T ] us/ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt/ to discover or establish something exactly: They were unable to pinpoint the source of the noise. Examples of pinpointpinpoint In many cases, pinpointing provenance, where an object of a particular type was made, enables us to identify it quite specifically. A number of other factors, such as, for example, modality and aspectuality, are pinpointed as being relevant to the judgements. The black triangle pinpoints the true parameter values for the simulations. All that is needed to single out such stars is the ability to isolate specific pinpoints of light visually from the surrounding darkness. Experimental psychologists use it without a second thought, catalogues and handbooks rubricate it fairly consistently, and historians succeed in pinpointing its legitimizing powers. The exact time of origin of eukaryotes is not pinpointed in the fossil record. Thus, research efforts have aimed at pinpointing biological markers to facilitate early diagnosis and intervention. The difficulty of pinpointing and verifying the precise answer makes question answering more challenging than the common information retrieval task done by search engines. What the dispute pinpoints is that different social situations and considerations breed quite different sets of values, which can not be glibly conflated. Putative relationships are then confirmed by investigating the few relevant publications pinpointed by the analysis of literature profiles. Most can be pinpointed to specific historical periods. Each path pinpoints a regression subsur face by the vir tue of examples that are contained in its leaf. The text pinpoints caring as having emotional, cognitive, and technical components. A village was pinpointed and describing and cataloguing how human speech the police investigation resources were turned is produced. Early research on the development and change of an individual's stylistic repertoire pinpointed the vernacular as an important concept for linguistic research. See all examples of pinpoint These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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