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Definition: Punt |
PuntNoun1. The basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence. 2. An open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole. 3. (football) kicking 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". Verb1. Kick the ball; in certain kinds of sports. 2. Propel with a pole; of barges on rivers, for example. 3. Place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?" "I'm betting on the new horse". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "punt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Food & Agriculture | The depression in the bottom of some bottles, particularly in bottles for sparkling wines. Source: European Union. (references) |
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The Irish Punt or Pound was the currency unit of the Republic of Ireland until January 1 2002.
Ireland since 1826 also followed the British currency system (see Pound Sterling).
Like Britain, Ireland decimalised its currency in 1971, with the same range of coins used, of the same size and weight, (½, 1, 2, 5, 10, and 50 pence) albeit with different designs as had been the case since the introduction of the independent Irish coinage in 1928. In 1979, it broke from the British pound (also called the Pound Sterling). The Irish currency came to be called the Irish Pound or in the Irish language the 'Punt'.
Irish coins introduced after 1979 (20p and £1) were of a completely different size and weight from the equivalent British coins, as were the 5p and 10p coins after both countries reduced the coins in size in the early 1990s.
Withdrawal of the Punt
On January 1 2002 Ireland replaced the Punt with the Euro, with Irish coins and banknotes being withdrawn from circulation by February 9 2002, although they will be exchangeable indefinitely for euros at the Central Bank of Ireland, Banc Ceannais na hÉireann.At 31 December 2001 the total value of Irish banknotes in circulation was 4,343.8 million euro, and the total value of Irish coins was 387.9 million euro. 56% of the value of Irish banknotes were withdrawn from circulation within two weeks of the introduction of euro banknotes and coins, and 83.4% by the time they ceased to have legal tender status on February 9. Withdrawal of coinage was slower, having a lower priority, with only 45% of coins withdrawn by February 9. One year after the changeover 456 million euro of Irish Punt banknotes remained unaccounted for, including one-third of all the £5 notes which, being the smallest denomination, were likely retained as souvenirs.
External Link
The Irish Pound: From Origins to EMU (734K PDF file, from Central Bank website).Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Irish Punt."
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Punt was the name given by the civilization of ancient Egypt alternately to a region south of Nubia and other times to Libya. The dual location is because it was the homeland of the Phoenicians. The region was the source of a good deal of trade; the pharaoh Seostris III actually had a canal constructed linking the Nile to the Red Sea for purposes of direct trade with Punt. It appears to have also been the subject of an occasional military campaign from Egypt.The oldest known expedition to Punt was organised by pharaoh Sahure of the fifth dynasty (25th century BC). Around 1950 BC, in the time of Mentuhotep III, an officer named Hennu made one or more voyages to the land. A very famous one was the one Nehsi for queen Hatshepsut in the 15th century BC, to get myrrh. A report of this voyage is left behind as a relief in Dehr el-Bahri. Several of the Hatshepsut's successors, such as Thutmoses III, also organised expeditions to Punt.
It is uncertain what modern geographic territory corresponds to this "Land of Punt". Historians generally agree on eastern Africa, possibly near what is now Somalia or Eritrea. However, certain evidence suggests a location on the southern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula. In the past even further places have been mentioned (Mozambique, India), but currently these theories have largely been dropped in favor of the abovementioned ones.
In the late 1990s part of Somalia declared itself the independent republic of Puntland.
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Punt can mean the following:
- a kind of boat; see punt (boat)
- an ancient region in Africa; see Land of Punt
- an action in American football; see punt (football)
- the indentation on the bottom of a wine bottle
- The Irish Punt was the official name for the Irish pound, the former currency of Ireland, replaced in 2002 by the euro.
- as a verb (derived from the American football meaning) can colloquially mean the conscious act of ignoring responsibilities for class assignments or work, as in, "I punted on my homework last night," or "I'm punting the study group for the exam." It also means to do something without proper preparation or planning by making it up on the spot, as in "We'll just punt." Similar usage is common in U.S. business, industry, and engineering circles as in declining to tackle (also from American Football) a problem or giving others (perhaps better qualified, more ambitious or merely needing the work) the opportunity to shine or fail.
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A punt is a flat-bottomed boat, typically used in small rivers and canals. It is propelled by pushing the river bed with a long pole. Punting is a popular tourist and leisure activity of the rivers of the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge, England.In Oxford and Cambridge there are many commercial organisations that make punts available for hire to the general public; it is a popular tourist activity. Some colleges hire their punts to the general public, most let only students use them. There are a few punts owned by private individuals registered on the Thames and River Cam.
Punting is a more popular tourist activity in Cambridge, because many very attractive old colleges are built adjacent to the river, whereas the rivers in Oxford are generally further from the old colleges and pass largely through parks and fields. However, the popularity of punting beside the old colleges in Cambridge produces significant congestion on this relatively narrow stretch of the river during the peak tourist season, leading to frequent collisions between inexperienced punters. These collisions are mostly harmless, but can occasionally cause the punter to lose balance and fall into the river, causing rather more amusement to bystanders than to the tourist who may not have a change of clothes. Some tourists may prefer the calmer experience that the rivers in Oxford (or the upper river in Cambridge) have to offer.
Punting technique
The user stands at the stern and tries not to fall into the water while holding the (rather heavy) wooden pole (known as a quant). In Cambridge the punter is balanced on a flat wooden platform, whereas in Oxford, where the punts are shaped slightly differently, the correct position is to stand on the slatted decking in the punt (many visitors to Oxford incorrectly propel the punt from the raised end that should be the bow). A naive attempt at propulsion by pushing with the pole against the mud at the bottom of the river is likely to result in the punt's moving in a circle, or heading constantly into one of the banks. Usually, numerous spectators will be present on bridges and banks and will find it greatly amusing, but consuming a sufficient amount of alcohol beforehand will increase the punter's confidence and sense of accomplishment, regardless of the actual merit of the performance.
One better technique is actually to use the pole as a rudder, letting it drag in the water behind the punt and moving it left or right to steer. Owing to the length of this rudder, this allows quite large changes in direction, useful if one is about to collide. Steering and propulsion are alternated.
The rudder method of steering can be slow (as while you are using the pole as a rudder you're not using it to propel the punt forward). A faster method, requiring more skill, strength, and judgment, is to drop pole slightly away from the punt (turning right for right handers) or slightly under the punt (turning left for right handers) and push backwards as normal. The generated torque will rotate the punt, probably too much if you are not experienced.
One particularly challenging aspect of punting is steering the boat underneath a wide bridge. The punter must judge when to propel the boat last before going under the bridge; if he does it too late, the quant will not fit under the bridge and the punter will have to let go of it (or, if he does not, this would knock him into the river); if he does it too early, the boat will lose its momentum and come to a halt underneath the bridge, and the punter will be unable to continue punting (except, of course, by pushing off the bridge, which is however considered cheating by many).
Alternatively a student can be employed to do the punting.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Punt (boat)."
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A punt is a play in Canadian football and American football where the football is kicked down field to the oppossing team. If an offensive team has the ball too far away from the end zone to attempt a field goal, and is facing a fourth down (or a third down in Canadian football), and too far away from the first down marker, they may choose to punt the ball. This involves kicking the ball from a standing position after it has been snapped (usually a long snap). The purpose is to increase distance that the opposing team must advance the ball in order to score a touchdown or a field goal.Once the ball has been kicked it changes possession to the other team. A player from the receiving team must be the first player to touch the ball after it has been kicked. Once a player from the receiving team has touched the ball, it is considered in play. The receiving team has the option of returning the punt, that is catching the ball and running it towards their goal. If the receiving team does not return the ball, the play ends, and the receiving team takes possession of the ball at the spot that the ball stop moving or went out of bounds.
If the ball goes out of bounds beyond the end zone, it is considered a touchback, and the receiving team gets to start their possession at the 20 yard line. If the receiving team drops the ball or touches the ball but does not catch it, it is considered a fumble, and may be recovered by either team. If the ball is punted out of bounds, it may be a penalty if the ball does not go at least a certain amount of yards. In this situation, if the penalty is accepted, the punting team will be forced to move backwards some distance of yards, and punt the ball again. The defensive team may also attempt to block the punt, by rushing the punt kicker instead of or in addition to trying to return the punt.
See also
- American football/Glossary
- American football
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Synonyms: PuntSynonyms: pound (n), punting (n), back (v), bet on (v), gage (v), game (v), pole (v), stake (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Navigation | Ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam. |
Ship | Boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, bateau battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. |
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Crosswords: Punt |
| English words defined with "punt": fair catch ♦ Pass boat, punting ♦ return. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "punt": Bum-boat ♦ wolfhound bond. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "punt": Pungent. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Punt" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (dot, period, point, spot), Catalan (point), Dutch (dot, element, fragment, item, particle, peak, period, point, spot, summit, tip), German (punt), Irish (pound, pounds), Manx (pound, punt, quid), Romansch (bridge), Swedish (punt), Welsh (pound). |
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Screenplays | If he fell asleep in the park, someone would try to punt him. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) I got the muff punt. (Roadracers; writing credit: Robert Rodriguez; Tommy Nix) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Punt i a part Rosa (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pond, mill with wheel, and man in punt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Football; punt; kicker; field goal; boot; kick; thud; . |
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Trade | Ireland | From January 1, 1999, the Punt became a denominator of the new single European currency, the Euro. (references) |
Travel | Ireland | The basic monetary unit is the Irish Pound (IR£) also known as the Punt. (references) |
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| "Punt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.70% of the time. "Punt" is used about 129 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.7% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.43% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.55% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 129 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "punt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Punt | Last name | 200 | 33,032 |
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Expressions using "punt": dropped punt ♦ offset punt ♦ punt pole. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "punt": Punt-out, punt-pole. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
punt | 42 | football punt | 4 |
kick pass punt | 20 | aol punt | 4 |
aim punt | 16 | aol program punt | 3 |
el punt | 7 | diari punt | 3 |
de mira punt | 7 | gatorade kick pass punt | 3 |
gun punt | 6 | land punt | 2 |
irish punt | 6 | apartment hill punt | 2 |
kick nfl pass punt | 5 | aim code punt | 2 |
cana punt | 5 | hill punt | 2 |
diari el punt | 5 | landen punt | 2 |
bama punt punt | 4 | punt pass kick contest | 2 |
groene punt | 4 | program punt | 2 |
de punt | 4 | aim punt string | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "punt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vë bast (back, bet, cast lots, wager), shtyj lundrën me shtagë, shkelmoj topin, shkelmim i topit, sandall (cutter, shallop), lundër gjahtarësh. (various references) | |
Arabic | قام بجولة بالبنط, قارب البنط, قاد قارب البنط. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спекулирам на борсата (gamble), возя с плоскодънна лодка, воле (volley), залог (bail, forfeit, guaranty, hostage, mortgage, pawn, pledge, security, stake, surety, voice), залагам пари на кон, бия от воле, плоскодънна лодка, играч срещу банката, играя срещу банката. (various references) | |
Chinese | 平底船 (Ark, Punt-out). (various references) | |
Czech | pramice (barge, ferry, wherry), pohánìt pramici, vsadit (put, put in, stake, wager). (various references) | |
Danish | bund (base, basement, bottom, Bund, Bund contract, floor, invert, jacket, plate, platform, substratum, tray). (various references) | |
Dutch | ziel (soul), bodem (bottom, earth, foundation, ground, hull, land, soil). (various references) | |
Farsi | توپ فوتبال راقبل ازتماس بازمین زدن , زدن توپ (Putt). (various references) | |
Finnish | pohja (base, basis, bottom, foundation, ground, sole), sauvoa (pole), ruuhi (flat-bottom rowboat). (various references) | |
French | pointe, fond, envoyer un coup de volée, coup de volée, bateau fond plat, aller se promener en bachot. (various references) | |
German | punt, spielen (act, be on, doodle, enact, gamble, make a scene, make a song and dance, perform, play, play about, play around, playing, show, simulate, to play, toy), abschlagen (beat off, bully off, chip off, chop down, cut off, cutting, hack off, hew off, knock down, knock off, refuse, reject, repulse, sever, severance, slash off, tee off, to refuse, turn down, wipe out), Boden (attic, base, bottom, earth, floor, foundation, ground, land, loft, seabed, seat, soil, terrain), kahn (barge, boat, narrow boat, rowing boat, tub), schießen (fire, gun, hit, jet, pot, score, send, shoot, shoot away, shooting, sprout, spurt), abschlag (anticipated payment, bully off, deduction, discount, felling, knockout, part payment, reduction, tee off), spiel (clearance, deck, fixture, gamble, gambling, game, games, match, pack, play, playing, set, slippage, tie), wetten (bet, bets, betted, betting, lay odds, to bet, wager, wagers, warrant), staken (pole, punt pole, stalk), stechkahn, stoßen (abut, buffet, bump, bumps, Bury, butt, dig, hustle, impinge, jab, jerk, jog, kick, knock, nudge, plunge, poke, pond, prod, punch, push, push across, push out, push over, put, ram, shag, shoulder, shove, stricken, stub, thrust, to bump, to hustle, to knock (at)), stocherkahn, stochern (poke), wette (bet, wager), schuss (ball, blast, charge, dash, gunshot, kick, pop, round, schuss, shot, splash, touch, weft, woof). (various references) | |
Greek | σταλίκι, βάση αντικειμένου (base, bottom), πλατυπυθμένοσ, παίχτησ (player), ποντάρω (bet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשוט בסיר" שטוח", סיר" שטוח". (various references) | |
Hungarian | rúddal hajt csónakot, rakodó dereglye, lapos fenekû csónak (dory), ladik (barge, flat-boat). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bergala. (various references) | |
Italian | sterlina irlandese, spingere con pertica, fondo (back, background, bed, bottom, deep, depth, dregs, end, estate, floor, foundation, fund, ground, heart, lowness, nature, profound, property, seat, sole), calcio al volo, calciare al volo, barchino. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | パンジー色 (briefs, brochure, deep violet, most people, paint, pampas, pamphlet, panda, pan-focus, pantalon, pantheon, panties, pantograph, pantomime, pantothenic, pantry, pantskirt, panty, panty girdle, panty hose, panty skirt, panty stocking, pantyhose, PCS, pumping, pumpkin, pumps, punch, punch card, punch permanent, punch-card system, punt kick, showing underwear, underpants, whore). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パントキック (punt kick), パント (punt kick). (various references) | |
Manx | puntal (poundal), punt (pound, quid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | untpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ponto (character, dot, jot, mark, matter, period, pinpoint, pip, point, prompter, speck, speckle, spot, stitch, stop, token), jogar (bluff, cob, gamble, game, give over, play, throw, toy, wager), fundo (back, background, bottom, deep, depth, foundation, fund, gist, ground, grounding, groundwork, milieu, profound, rock bottom, sole, sunken, undercurrent), empurrado vara, barco de fundo chato, apostar (bet, gamble, game, parlay, wage, wager). (various references) | |
Romanian | mizã (kitty, pool, stake), miza, barcã cu fund lat, împinge (crowd, drive, go to extremes, goad, induce, jab, joggle, jostle, move, poke, press, push, push away, run to an extreme, shove, spurn, thrust). (various references) | |
Russian | плоскодонный ялик. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta čamca (dogsbody), udarac lopte nogom, opklada na konjskim trkama. (various references) | |
Spanish | batea (pan, tray). (various references) | |
Swedish | staka sig fram (pole), punt, eka (echo, re echo, reecho, re-echo, resound, skiff). (various references) | |
Turkish | topa havada vurmak, topa havada vurma, tekne ile gitmek, sırıkla yürütülen tekne, sırıkla itmek, kumar oynamak (gamble, game), bahse girmek (bet, go, lay, wager). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ставка (ante, bet, parlay, price, rate, wager), понтувати, подавати м'яч ногою, плоскодонка, пливти на плоскодонному човні. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuyền đáy bằng (falt-boat). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ponto. (various references) |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | schouw. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "punt": punted, punter, punters, punties, punting, punto, puntos, punts, punty. (additional references) | |
Words containing "punt": contrapuntal, contrapuntally, contrapuntist, contrapuntists, opuntia, opuntias, trapunto, trapuntos. (additional references) | |
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"Punt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: penti, pentl, Pentz, phun, Phung, plunt, pnutt, pont, ponto, pount, Prunty, Puat, pubn, puft, pugn, puht, punc, punct, puncto, pund, punet, pung, puni, punit, punity, punj, Punkt, punn, punot, punta, punte, punti, Punto, punu, punx, purt, purtt, pust, pynt, qunt, unt, upn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "punt" (pronounced pu"nt) |
| 3 | -u" n t | affront, blunt, brunt, confront, front, grunt, Hunt, Lunt, shunt, stunt. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: nut, pun, put, tun, tup. | |
-2 letters: nu, un, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: input, punto, punts, punty, puton, unapt. | |
+2 letters: inputs, peanut, penult, pignut, pluton, pundit, punnet, punted, punter, puntos, putons, tuneup, turnip, turnup, unkept, unpent, unstep, unstop, unwept, upsent, uptorn, uptown, upturn. | |
+3 letters: dustpan, nuptial, nutpick, opulent, opuntia, outplan, outspan, pantoum, peanuts, penults, petunia, pignuts, pinetum, piquant, plutons, pouting, prudent, pulsant, pundits, pungent, puniest, punkest, punnets, punster, punters, punties, punting, puritan, putamen, putdown, putting, putzing, spinout, sputnik, standup, sunspot, tumping, tuneups, tupping, turnips, turnups, umpteen, unaptly, unkempt, unplait, unspent, unspilt, unsplit, unsteps, unstops, unstrap, unswept, upfront, upstand, uptowns, uptrend, upturns, utopian. | |
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