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(rail transport, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India) Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another. examples
(theater) Exaggerated speech or gestures used for emphasis during a performance. quotations examples
In my concentrated week at Stratford I found that, although as a theatregoer for decades I could not help marking what the old actors called 'points' now and again, […]
1977, Drama: The quarterly theatre review, numbers 124-131, page 16
The nineteenth century acting technique of making points was encouraged by the dramaturgy of the melodramas which dominated the stage. The style was in fact difficult to avoid in many popular plays.
2014, Amy Lehman, Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance, page 21
third-person singular simple present indicative of point examples