Pinpoint and Set

Pinpoint

Pinpoint verb - To point or turn (something) toward a target or goal.
Usage example: publishers like to be able to pinpoint publicity efforts where they will have the most effect

Set and pinpoint are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Set" instead a verb "Pinpoint".

Nearby Words: pinpointed, pinpointing

Set

Set verb - To point or turn (something) toward a target or goal.
Usage example: determined to see the West, she set her car towards the sun and drove off

Pinpoint and set are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pinpoint" instead a verb "Set".

Nearby Words: setup, setting

How words are described

high high pinpoint high set

Common collocations

point pinpoint point set point
type pinpoint type set type
place pinpoint place set place
room pinpoint room set room
Other words: example, enemies.

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Sherlock Holmes The state of politics and science nails the period down, and decades of fans have generally been able to pinpoint the exact years most of the years were set in.
  • Film / Final Girl Ambiguous Time Period: It is hard to pinpoint exactly when the movie is supposed to be set.
  • An overabundance of flowers is spotted covering Gensokyo, and Reimu, Marisa and the other heroines set out to pinpoint the cause.
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Set and Pinpoint. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pinpoint/set
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