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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
punt
n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100
pence [syn: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound]
2: an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and
propelled by a long pole
3: (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the
hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt
traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the
game" [syn: punt, punting]
v 1: kick the ball
2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went
punting in Cambridge" [syn: punt, pole]
3: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting
on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake,
game, punt]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Punt \Punt\, n. (Football)
The act of punting the ball.
[1913 Webster]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Punt \Punt\, v. i.
1. To boat or hunt in a punt.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To punt a football.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Punt \Punt\, v. i. [F. ponter, or It. puntare, fr. L. punctum
point. See Point.]
To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
[1913 Webster]
She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.
--Thackeray.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Punt \Punt\, n.
Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Punt \Punt\, n. [AS., fr. L. ponto punt, pontoon. See
Pontoon.] (Naut.)
A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use
in shallow waters.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Punt \Punt\, v. t.
1. To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a
pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with
exertion. --Livingstone.
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2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the
ground, when let fall from the hands.
[1913 Webster]
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8. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
punt
v.
[from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football: ?Drop
back 15 yards and punt!?]
1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying. ?Let's punt the
movie tonight.? ?I was going to hack all night to get this feature in, but
I decided to punt? may mean that you've decided not to stay up all night,
and may also mean you're not ever even going to put in the feature.
2. More specifically, to give up on figuring out what the Right Thing is
and resort to an inefficient hack.
3. A design decision to defer solving a problem, typically because one
cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well to frame an algorithmic
solution. ?No way to know what the right form to dump the graph in is ?
we'll punt that for now.?
4. To hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other section of the
design. ?It's too hard to get the compiler to do that; let's punt to the
runtime system.?
5. To knock someone off an Internet or chat connection; a punter thus, is a
person or program that does this.
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9. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
punt
(From the punch line of an old joke referring to American
football: "Drop back 15 yards and punt!") 1. To give up,
typically without any intention of retrying. "Let's punt the
movie tonight." "I was going to hack all night to get this
feature in, but I decided to punt" may mean that you've
decided not to stay up all night, and may also mean you're not
ever even going to put in the feature.
2. More specifically, to give up on figuring out what the
Right Thing is and resort to an inefficient hack.
3. A design decision to defer solving a problem, typically
because one cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well
to frame an algorithmic solution. "No way to know what the
right form to dump the graph in is - we'll punt that for
now."
4. To hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other
section of the design. "It's too hard to get the compiler to
do that; let's punt to the run-time system."
[Jargon File]
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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