All the design and color and art books that I have all make claims about color meaning, but Iâm certain some of it is cultural, and none of the books or writers who assign meanings to colors ever give one shred of evidence supporting their claims.
As a noun, it is a sharp pain sensation when the skin is punctured by a needle, pin or other sharp object. As a verb, it is the action of puncturing a small hole or holes in an object. As a slang term, a prick can be a penis.
1 -point-comes from French and ultimately from Latin, where it has the meaning point, prick, pierce.'' It is related to the root-punct-. 2  This meaning is found in such words as: appoint, disappoint, midpoint, pinpoint, point, pointless, viewpoint.