(n.) superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
(n.) The first point after deuce.
(v. t.) To profit; to aid.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(2) This article highlights the applications of echocardiography from the physician's vantage point.
(3) Rushdie, however, seems strangely unwilling to make the same concession to Mo Yan as, from the vantage point of his "free" society, he repeatedly condemns a fellow novelist working in an "unfree" one.
(4) This paper presents a model for viewing assessment from nine vantage points simultaneously.
(5) The assumptions and parameter estimates selected for this investigation represent a highly conservative vantage point opposing the use of isoniazid as a preventive therapy.
(6) Forested, sparsely populated terrain provides good cover and vantage points.
(7) From a public health vantage, however, the opportunities for further advances in controlling STDs have never been greater.
(8) But from the vantage point of the campaign the benefits are evident.
(9) Live on air, his friend would then describe the scene – from the vantage point of his living room window, he could see entire neighbourhoods being obliterated – for the benefit of viewers of the evening news show.
(10) These differences are discussed from the vantage of the relationship between training and professional activity.
(11) Most NGOs have many strengths, vantage points and ability to initiate viable health programmes.
(12) This study attempted to describe the personalities of heroin addicts from the vantage point of the addicts using instruments borrowed from descriptive semantics.
(13) The Met’s snap had a few features a standard press photo lacks, though, including an exact timestamp, location data, and a vantage point from an expensive and taxpayer-funded aerial spot.
(14) An approach to the assessment of the immune system primarily from the vantage point of the general physician is presented, indicating the clinical situations where analysis is most likely to yield informative results.
(15) But Olsen cautioned: “As dire as all of this sounds, from my vantage point it is important that we keep this threat in perspective and we take a moment to consider it in the context of the overall terrorist landscape.” He added that the core al-Qaida remained the dominant group in the global jihadist movement, even if though it has recently been outpaced by Isis’s sophisticated propaganda machine.
(16) This paper reviews recent policy developments and reconsiders state performance from the vantage point of the mid-1980s.
(17) Being a member of a couple is participating in a story, sometimes a "love story," and whether or not it is seen as a good story depends on one's critical vantage point.
(18) Lori Lightfoot, an attorney who previously worked as chief administrator for the Chicago police division that oversaw shootings by officers, said the video could be significant but many questions remained: what was the vantage point of the workers?
(19) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(20) The aggressive Humvee mindset spawned a less antisocial alternative: the SUV (sport utility vehicle), with its high-up military-style vantage point, from which to spot approaching danger, and with macho bumpers signalling solidity and indestructibility.
Ventage
Definition:
(n.) A small hole, as the stop in a flute; a vent.