The difference between Place and Point

Place as a noun (physical):

An area; somewhere within an area. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. A group of houses. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. Any area of the earth: a region. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly country estates and farms. An area of the skin. An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.

Place as a noun:

A location or position in space.

Place as a noun:

A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.

Place as a noun:

A passage or extract from a book or document.

Place as a noun:

A topic.

Place as a noun:

A frame of mind.

Place as a noun:

A chess position; a square of the chessboard.

Place as a noun (social):

A responsibility or position in an organization. A role or purpose; a station. The position of a contestant in a competition. The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. The position as a member of a sports team.

Place as a noun:

A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.

Place as a noun:

Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

Place as a noun:

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

Place as a noun:

Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

Place as a verb (transitive):

To put (an object or person) in a specific location.

Place as a verb (intransitive):

To earn a given spot in a competition. To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.

Place as a verb (transitive):

To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

Place as a verb (transitive, in the passive):

To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.

Place as a verb (transitive):

To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.

Place as a verb (transitive):

To arrange for or to make (a bet).

Place as a verb (transitive):

To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.

Place as a verb (sports, transitive):

To place-kick (a goal).

Point as a noun (archaic):

A discrete division of something. An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality. A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture. Condition, state. A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition. A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea. A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful. The smallest quantity of something; a jot, a whit. A tiny amount of time; a moment. A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position. A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction. A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark. A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half. A note; a tune. A distinguishing quality or characteristic. Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark. A tenth; formerly also a twelfth. Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc. A unit of scoring in a game or competition. A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud). A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares. a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era). An electric power socket. A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25. A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.

Point as a noun (backgammon):

A sharp extremity. The sharp tip of an object. Any projecting extremity of an object. An object which has a sharp or tapering tip. Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played. A peninsula or promontory. The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force. Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction. The difference between two points of the compass. Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression. A railroad switch. An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking. A tine or snag of an antler. A movement executed with the sabre or foil.

Point as a noun (heraldry):

One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.

Point as a noun (nautical):

A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.

Point as a noun (historical):

A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.

Point as a noun:

Lace worked by the needle.

Point as a noun (US, slang, dated):

An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

Point as a noun:

The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.

Point as a noun (falconry):

The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.

Point as a noun:

The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.

Point as a noun:

The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.

Point as a noun (medicine, obsolete):

A vaccine point.

Point as a noun (cricket):

In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position. A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover. The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper. The position of the pitcher and catcher. A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To face in a particular direction.

Point as a verb (transitive):

To direct toward an object; to aim.

Point as a verb:

To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.

Point as a verb (intransitive):

To indicate a probability of something.

Point as a verb (ambitransitive, masonry):

To repair mortar.

Point as a verb (transitive, masonry):

To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

Point as a verb (stone-cutting):

To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

Point as a verb (transitive):

To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.

Point as a verb (transitive, mathematics):

To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.

Point as a verb (transitive):

To mark with diacritics.

Point as a verb (dated):

To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.

Point as a verb (transitive, computing):

To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.

Point as a verb (transitive, Internet):

To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.

Point as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

To sail close to the wind.

Point as a verb (intransitive, hunting):

To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

Point as a verb (medicine, of an [[abscess]]):

To approximate to the surface; to head.

Point as a verb (obsolete):

To appoint.

Point as a verb (dated):

To give point to (something said or done); to give particular prominence or force to.