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Definition of 'punt'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) punt
a kick, as in football or rugby, executed by dropping the ball and kicking it before it touches the ground.

2. (v.t.) punt
to kick (a dropped ball) before it touches the ground.

3. (v.i.) punt
to punt a ball.

4.  punt
Informal. to equivocate or delay.

5. (n.) punt
a small, shallow, flat-bottomed boat with square ends, propelled by poling.

6. (v.t.) punt
to pole (a small boat) along.

7.  punt
to convey in a punt.

8. (v.i.) punt
to pole a boat along.

9.  punt
to travel or have an outing in a punt.

10. (v.i.) punt
to lay a stake against the bank in certain card games, as faro.

11.  punt
Slang. to gamble, esp. to bet on sporting events.

12. (n.) punt
the basic currency of the Republic of Ireland, which has a fixed value relative to the euro.

Etymology: (1970–75; < Ir < E pound²)

Definition of 'punt'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound
formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence

2. (noun) punt
an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole

3. (verb) punt, punting
(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"

4. (verb) punt
kick the ball

5. (verb) punt, pole
propel with a pole
"pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"

6. (verb) bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt
place a bet on
"Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"

Definition of 'punt'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) punt
act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc

2. (noun) punt
a flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters

3. (noun) punt
the act of punting the ball

4. (verb) punt
to play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble

5. (verb) punt
to propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion

6. (verb) punt
to kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands

Definitions of 'punt'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. 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 runtime system.”

5. To knock someone off an Internet or chat connection; a punter thus, is a person or program that does this.

Translation of 'punt'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a type of flat-bottomed boat with square ends, moved by pushing against the bottom of the river etc with a pole.
Afrikaans: platboomskuit	Arabic: زَوْرَق	Bulgarian: плоскодънна лодка
Brazilian: balsa	Czech: pramice, loďka	German: das Puntboot
Danish: pram	Greek: στενόμακρη αβαθής βάρκα	Spanish: batea
Estonian: ruhi	Farsi: بلم	Finnish: jokivene
French: bac	Hebrew: סִירָה שְטוּחָה	Hindi: डोंगी
Hungarian: ladik	Indonesian: rakit	Icelandic: bytta, gaflkæna
Italian: (barca a fondo piatto)	Korean: 삿대로 움직이는 바닥이 납작한 배	Lithuanian: plokščiadugnė valtis
Latvian: plakandibena laiva	Malay: perahu jalur	Dutch: punter
Norwegian: flatbunnet båt	Polish: płaskodenna łódź	Persian: بلم
Pashto: د بيړى پورى وهل	Portuguese: bateira	Romanian: mahonă
Russian: плоскодонка	Slovak: pramica, loďka	Slovenian: plitevčoln
Serbian: pljosnatičamac	Swedish: punt, stakbåt	Thai: เรือท้องแบน
Turkish: altı düz sandal	Taiwanese: (用篙撐的)方頭平底船	Ukrainian: плоскодонний човен
Urdu: ايک قسم کي کشتي	Vietnamese: thuyền thúng	Chinese: （用篙撑的）方头平底船
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