point-to-point

[ point-tuh-point ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a cross-country horse race between specified points, in which each rider is often free to select their own course between the points.

point-to-point

1. a steeplechase organized by a recognized hunt or other body, usually restricted to amateurs riding horses that have been regularly used in hunting
2. ( as modifier )
  a point-to-point race

First recorded in 1880–85

Written language is thus a point-to-point equivalence, to borrow a mathematical phrase, to its spoken counterpart.

And these two classes sustain a point-to-point correspondence to each other—they are correlated.

Perspiring Sportsman (who has been riding in fourteen-stone point-to-point race).

Then, after a couple of minor events, a four-mile point-to-point race for hunters ridden by gentlemen in hunt uniform.

The design name given, "butterfly," probably applies to the point-to-point large solid triangles, possibly to the rhomboids.

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