Puncture

Definition: Puncture

Puncture

Noun

1. Loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object.

2. A small hole made by a sharp object.

3. The act of puncturing or perforating.

Verb

1. Pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into; "puncture a tire".

2. Make by piercing; "puncture a hole".

3. Reduce or lessen the size or importance of; "The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence".

4. Cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing; "puncture an air balloon".

5. Be pierced or punctured; "The tire punctured".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "puncture" was first used: 1392. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Physics

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Synonym: Puncture

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Noun: hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel; transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot.

Apertion, perforation; piercing; Verb: terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration.

Crosswords: Puncture

No, you're squeezing my puncture wound (Get Over It; writing credit: R. Lee Fleming Jr.)

Puncture like needles (Can't Nobody; performing artist: Nate Dogg)

The Puncture Proof Sock Man (1914)

Repairing a Puncture (1897)

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Books

• Devices for Collection of Skin Puncture Blood Specimens (Approved Guideline) (reference)

• Life's Puncture Wounds (reference)

• Procedures for the Collection of Diagnostic Blood Specimens by Skin Puncture (reference)

• Puncture Prevention Techniques for Low Cost Vehicles (reference)

• Puncture the 'O' (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Puncture (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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[Bloodletting: Statues of Venus & Adonis with circles illustrating puncture points] / P. Schumacher sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Rising interest rates about to puncture an inflated economy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

In lumbar puncture, doctors obtain a small sample of cerebrospinal fluid. (references)

After the fluid is collected, medicines may be given through the puncture. (references)

Bleeding and puncture of the colon are possible complications of colonoscopy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "puncture": have a puncture ♦ lumbar puncture ♦ puncture outfit ♦ puncture patch ♦ puncture repair outfit ♦ Quincke's puncture ♦ Spinal Puncture ♦ tracheoesophageal puncture. Additional references.

Beginning with "puncture": puncture-proof, puncture-warning.

Ending with "puncture": Electro-puncture.

Albanian

vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, prick, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), shpuarje, shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, prickle, punch, run through, Spike, spit, stab, stick, sting), shpohem (bore, prickle), shpim (boring, drilling, jab, perforation, poke, prick, pricking, sinking, tingle), biroj (bore, drill, hole, perforate), birë (bore, hole, spy hole), çaj (break, char, cleave, cut, dissect, fissure, forge, impale, open, pink, push through, slash, slit, split, tea, tear, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طرق (bang, beating, enter, knock, knock repeatedly, knocking, percuss, percussion, pounding, rap, tool), ‏خرق (breach, break, breaking, infraction, infringe, infringement, pierce, rent, riddle, transgress, transgression, violation), ‏إنخفاض ضئيل, ‏إنخرق, ‏إنثقب, ‏ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, drill, hole, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, prickle, punch, tear, vent), ‏بزل (broach). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спукване на гума, спуквам се (implode), бодване (prick, prod, stick), пункция, пробождам (impale, jab, prong, run through, skewer, stick, thrust through, transfix), пробиване (boring, break, drilling, perforation, pricking, rupture), пробивам се, дупчица (eyelet, hole). (various references)

Chinese 

刺 (lunge, Lunged, Lunging, Prick, Pricked, Pricking, Pricking-up, Prod, Prodded, Prodding, Punctured, Puncturing, stab, thorn). (various references)

Czech

prorazit (break through, drive, drive smth. in, drive through, force one's way, get through, Pierce, put through, stave in), propíchnout (prick), píchnutí (jab, stab, sting), píchnout (jab), dírkovat, díra (backwater, burrow, gap, hole, joint, leak, pit, rip, split, tear, vent). (various references)

Danish

punktur. (various references)

Dutch

punctie. (various references)

Farsi 

پنچرشدن , پنچر, سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Scuttle, Slot, Spit, Stab, Steek, Stick, Thrust, Transfix), سوراخ (Bore, Hole, Leak, Mesh, Orifice, Outage, Overture, Peck, Pigenhole). (various references)

Finnish

puhkaista (break through, pierce), pistoreikä, rengasrikko, lävistää (perforate, pierce, prick, punch, stab), läpilyöntikanava, läpilyönti (breakdown, breakout, burn-through, disruption, disruptive discharge, electric breakdown), eristimen läpilyönti (discharge failure, electric breakdown). (various references)

French

ponction, crevaison, crever. (various references)

German

durchstechen (cut through, Pierce, prick, run through, stab, stick through, to transfix, transfix, transfixes), Reifenpanne (blowout, flat), Punktion (aspiration). (various references)

Greek 

τρύπημα (drilling, piercing, tapping). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפח (breathing out, disapointment, disillusionment, exhaustion), תקר (blow out, flat), פ� צ'ר (unexpected failure), � קב (bore, hole, hollow, orifice, pore). (various references)

Hungarian

defekt (blow out, breakdown, break-down, flat tire, hitch), szúrás (dig, foin, prick, pricking, smart, stab, sting, stuck, thrust, tingle, twitch), lyukasztás (punching). (various references)

Indonesian

tusukan (jab, prick), menusuk (prick, prickle, prod), mendobolkan, mencocok (fasten, pin, prick, string), kebocoran (leak, leakage). (various references)

Italian

puntura (bite, injection, prick, shot, sting), foratura. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

穿刺 (stab), パンの木 (breadfruit, bursting, Pan-Americanism, pancake, panchromatic, pansy, punctual, punctuation, punk, punk rock). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パンク (bursting, punk), せ�"し (combatant, death in action, former teacher, military history or annals, prehistory, pruning, soldier, stab, warrior, woman's slender fingers). (various references)

Korean 

빵꾸. (various references)

Manx

giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), doral (aperture, perforation, pinhole, pore), cur doral ayn. (various references)

Maya

dzop (to puncture). (various references)

Pig Latin

uncturepay.(various references)

Portuguese

perfuração (bore, caliber, calibre, cutting, rapierthrust), furo (bore, boring, flat, hole, hub, loophole, orifice, rapierthrust). (various references)

Romanian

puncturã, puncţie, panã (arrow, break down, chock, cleat, cotter, failure, feather, Gib, injury, jaw, peg, pen, pick, pinion, plug, plume, quill, quill pen, Spike, wedge), strãpungere (perforation), strãpunge (Gore, penetrate, perforate, Pierce, pin, pink, Ray, riddle, stab, transfix, tunnel), gãuri (bore, drift, drill, Gore, hole, perforate, Pierce, pink, pounce, prick, prickle, spring, vent), face o puncţie, înţepa (bite, prick, prickle, stick, sting). (various references)

Russian 

укол (injection, jab, prick, rapier thrust, sting), прокол (tapping), прокалывать прокол, пробой (breakthrough, disruption, rupture), получать прокол. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

probušiti (hole, perforate, pierce, trepan), bušenje rupa. (various references)

Spanish

perforación (boring, drilling, perforation, piercing), punción (pricking). (various references)

Swedish

punktering (flat, stipple), stick (bite, cheese it, cut, dig, get, jab, prick, scat, shove off, skiddoo, stick, thrust, twinge). (various references)

Turkish

patlatmak (blast, blow up, bust, detonate, explode, let off, make blow up, make burst, make explode, pop, set off, touch off), patlamak (blow, blow out, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, set back, snap, spring), patlama (bang, blow out, blowup, boom, burst, burst up, crack, detonating, detonation, eruption, explosion, fireworks, fulminating, fulmination, outburst, plosion, simmer), yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), delmek (bore, broach, dig into, dig through, drill, hole, make a hole in, perforate, pick, Pierce, pink, prick, ream, ream out, Spike, stab, stave in, stick), delme (boring, drilling, fenestration, penetration, perforation, piercing), delinmek, delinme (perforation, prick), boşa çıkmak (be blighted, come to naught, come to nothing, come to nought, fail, fizzle, fizzle out, founder, go by the board), boşa çıkarmak (baffle, blight, cancel, defeat, disappoint, fail, frustrate, invalidate, prick the bubble, shoot down). (various references)

Turkmen 

deюmek (make a hole). (various references)

Ukrainian

уколоти (barb, pinprick, pique), робити пункцію, точковий отвір, татуювати, зруйнувати (break down), пункція, проколювати (broach, impale, peg, pin, prick, prickle, skewer), прокол (pinhole), пробій. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự chích (prick, pricking), sự châm (prick, pricking), sự đâm (transfixion), lỗ chích, lỗ châm, lỗ đâm. (various references)

conpuncti, conpunctum, conpungar, conpungimini, conpunxerunt, pungo pupugi punctum. (various references)

punctura. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "puncture": punctured, punctures. (additional references)

Words ending with "puncture": acupuncture, micropuncture, venipuncture. (additional references)

Words containing "puncture": acupunctures, micropunctures, venipunctures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Puncture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: panture, pucture, puncto, punctural, punstere, punture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: precut, punter, tuneup, turnup, uncute, unpure, untrue, upturn.

-3 letters: centu, crept, cruet, curet, cuter, cutup, eruct, erupt, prune, recut, truce, tuner, uncut.

-4 letters: cent, cure, curn, curt, cute, ecru, pent, pert, puce, punt, pure, rent, rune, runt, tern, true, tune, turn.

-5 letters: cep, cue, cup, cur, cut, ecu, ern, net, nut, pec, pen, per.

+1 letter: punctured, punctures.

+3 letters: acupuncture, countercoup.

+4 letters: acupunctures, countercoups, counterpunch, percutaneous, superconduct, supercurrent, uncapturable, unproductive, uppercutting, venipuncture.

+5 letters: micropuncture, repunctuation, superconducts, supercurrents, unpicturesque, unspectacular, venipunctures.