to pinpoint
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4.0
- verb
- /ˈpɪnˌpɔɪnt/
:
localizar (ubicación)
- The detective was able to pinpoint the suspect's exact location using the GPS data.
- pinpoint the cause
- pinpoint the exact time
- pinpoint the location
I couldn't quite pinpoint what I was seeing.
- I couldn't quite pinpoint what I was seeing.
- So it's hard for me to pinpoint a moment like that.
- I think for me, I'm trying to pinpoint the exact time.
- And I can't just pinpoint one reason why it happened.
- And then I kind of was able to pinpoint, like, who.
- That I think is really hard to pinpoint these days.
- So Rocket Money will help you pinpoint which of these things you're just wasting money on.
- So what I'm trying to say is if you pinpoint a picture.
Examples
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Wandell used new brain imaging technology to pinpoint the brain regions that were involved in reading ability.
Academic text (2011) -
The years of research started to pinpoint food residuals as the target market.
Academic text (1999) -
So it's hard for me to pinpoint a moment like that.
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So I cannot pinpoint where that comes from.
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Can you pinpoint the location?
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So let's go upstairs and see if we can pinpoint the location.
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I think for me, I'm trying to pinpoint the exact time.
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So there are many other sectors like that that we have pinpointed now.
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The navy would use morning light to pinpoint the fire of its big guns on enemy emplacements.
Academic text (1994) -
Captain Ray Harris came in and announced he had pinpointed the problem exactly.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
533
2.7
To find the exact place of something, for example a leak or a lost city
78
6.0
To find exactly when or why something happened
20
3.5
To make something exact, like a date or reason
13
5.7
To find the exact place of something
Antonyms
How Precise
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pinpoint joins pin and point, like placing a pin to mark an exact spot on a map, so to pinpoint something is to find or mark it very exactly.