powerpoint

plural powerpoints

1. An electronic slide presentation.

   The powerpoint shows the same model type of the Mitsubishi train, Crystal Mover, being run in Singapore's light rail transit.

   2010 December 30, Natalie Leung, “Mitsubishi wins LRT tender”, in Macau Daily Times

1. trademarkA software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.

   Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.

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   Can I be candid? I think I am on this group because none of you can do PowerPoint. I am literally going to draw some rectangle shapes for the pillars. We won’t be having feathers or whatever. And there’s a limit to how many pillars will fit on a single slide.

   2024 February 22, "Bartleby", “The making of a PowerPoint slide”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2024

   Synonyms: PPT

plural PowerPoints

1. trademarkAn electronic slide presentation created using the program Microsoft PowerPoint.

   PowerPoint presentation

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   Sitting through his PowerPoints is a dull, but necessary, requisite for the job.

   The PowerPoint is the summation of Rove's thinking about the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost 30 seats in the House and six in the Senate

   2007 July 24, “Capitol Briefing - Rove-Taylor PowerPoint”, in Washington Post

   Alas, our PowerPoint Generation gravitates to bullet points and two-dimensional bar charts, even as we stumble our way through this multidimensional universe.

   2009 December, Thomas W. L. Hazlett, “We're Number Two?”, in Commentary, volume 128, number 5, page 28

   Hine showed many of his paintings and pictures in a PowerPoint.

   2010 December 29, “GHS students attend PSU Art Day”, in Pittsburg Morning Sun

   Through the new LEAD21 program, students research and put together a class presentation that will involve creating a PowerPoint and giving a speech based on their particular inquiry topic.

   2010 December 30, “Every School Every Thursday”, in DesMoines Register

   Synonyms: PPT

2. broadlyAny electronic slide presentation.

   She's asked James to prepare a PowerPoint for tomorrow's lesson.

present singular third person PowerPoints · participle present PowerPointing · participle past PowerPointed · past PowerPointed

1. intransitiveTo communicate using electronic slides.

   Levi seems to be able to do all the slide shows and videos and PowerPointing his teachers ask of him -- as long as he's patient with its slow pace

   2010 March 28, “Time for a New Computer? Yes! No Way!”, in Wall Street Journal

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   A recent editorial and tips in this journal have extolled the virtues of making clear presentations using computer presentation software, in particular the commercial software PowerPoint (Microsoft, Redmond, WA). AJR readers may be interested to know that free software packages are available that can create professional presentations without furthering our national dependence on a software monopoly.

   2002, Jeff Fessler, “Free "PowerPointing"”, in American Journal of Roentgenology

   As the world is now texting, tweeting, and PowerPointing all over the place, this edition of English Grammar For Dummies shows you how to handle all sorts of electronic communications

   2010, Geraldine Woods, English Grammar For Dummies, page 1

2. transitiveTo present (a topic) by means of electronic slides.

   Do they tell a person (as happens in one corporation) that they won't look at any report unless it is “PowerPointed”?

   2005, John Elliott with T J Elliott, Decision DNA, number 1, page 105

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   In one poignant moment, Hanks is sitting in on an executive meeting at a major toy company, and one vice president is PowerPointing his way through a presentation about a new toy

   2005, Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz, Never eat alone and other secrets to success: one relationship at a time, page 216

   As I write this, Gottfried is PowerPointing the concept around a string of high-level development companies across the United States.

   2008, James Glave, Almost green: how I built an eco-shed, ditched my SUV, alienated ..., page 74

   So we quickly and efficiently did our research and, in a blink of an eye, the “known unknowns” quickly became known and PowerPointed

   2008, Steve Monas with Richard Hooker, Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible, page 483

3. transitiveTo communicate to (an audience) by electronic slides.

   Now it is time to take your tired-as-hell, PowerPointed-to-death brain and shake things up so that you have the ideas, energy,

   2010, Pamela Slim, Escape from Cubicle Nation

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   She says the audience has had a long day and has been "PowerPointed out" with one presentation after another from other Oracle executives

   2004, Matthew Symonds with Larry Ellison, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle, page 247

   Instead of being talked at, briefed, and PowerPointed, you will be drawing on your experience, listening to others, and figuring out what it all means

   2010, Marvin Weisbrod with Sandra Janoff, Future Search: Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, ...