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punt

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin ponto (“Gaulish flat-bottomed boat”).

Noun

punt (plural punts)

  1. (nautical) A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
Translations
narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole
  • Dutch: vlet nl(nl) c.
  • Finnish: jokivene, ruuhi fi(fi)
  • German: Stocherkahn de(de) m.

Verb

to punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

  1. (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
Translations
propel a punt with a pole
  • Dutch: vletten nl(nl)
  • Finnish: sauvoa fi(fi)

Etymology 2

Possibly a dialectal variant of bunt; Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.

Verb

to punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

  1. (rugby, American football, Australian Rules football, Gaelic football) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground.
  2. To retreat from one's objective.
    • ca. 2002 Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick and C. Michael Pilato, “Basic Work Cycle”, in Version Control with Subversion[1]:
      Punting: Using svn revert¶ If you decide that you want to throw out your changes and start your edits again (whether this occurs after a conflict or anytime), just revert your changes
Derived terms
Translations
American football: drop-kick
retreat from one's objective

Noun

punt (plural punts)

  1. (American football) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. Contrast drop kick.
Translations
American football: drop-kick
  • Finnish: lentopotku

Etymology 3

From French ponte or Spanish ponto (“point”).

Noun

punt (plural punts)

  1. A point in the game of faro.
  2. A bet or wager
  3. An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
  4. (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
Translations
point in the game of faro
  • Dutch: punt nl(nl) n.
bet or wager
  • Finnish: veto fi(fi)
indentation in the base of a wine bottle

Verb

to punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

  1. (UK, chiefly Irish) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
    • 2004 John Buglear, “Is it worth the risk? – introducing probability”, in Quantitative methods for business: the A-Z of QM[2], ISBN 9780750658980, page 339:
      Whether you want to gamble on a horse race, bet on which player will score first in a game of football, have a punt on a particular tennis player winning a grand slam event, you are buying a chance, a chance which is measured in terms of probability, ‘the odds’.
    • 2006 June 23, Dan Roebuck, “Eriksson's men still worth a punt”, The Guardian:
      Eriksson's men still worth a punt
    • 2009 November 3, Sarah Collerton, “Cup punt not child's play”, ABC News:
      Australians have a reputation for being keen to bet on two flies climbing up a wall and today young ones often take a casual classroom punt
  2. (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
Translations
to gamble
make a highly speculative investment or other commitment

Related terms

Anglo-Norman

Noun

punt m. (oblique plural punz, nominative singular punz, nominative plural punt)

  1. bridge (construction)

Catalan

Etymology

Latin punctum

Noun

punt m. (plural punts)

  1. point (specific location)
  2. dot ((grammar) A punctuation mark)
  3. dot ((mathematics) Used for separating the fractional part from the whole part)
  4. dot (Used in Morse code)

Derived terms

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has articles on: Punt

Wikipedia nl

Etymology

Latin punctum

Pronunciation

Noun

punt m. (plural punten, diminutive puntje, diminutive plural puntjes)

  1. (geometry) point
    Door twee punten gaat precies één rechte.
    Through two points one can draw exactly one straight line.
  2. mark
  3. full stop, period
    Punt, gedaan.
    Full stop, finished. / That’s it, period.
    Aan het einde van een zin hoort een punt of een ander leesteken.
    At the end of a sentence there belongs a full stop or another punctuation sign.
  4. dot
    Een ypsilon, zonder puntjes.
    A wye, without dots on it.

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish punt < Middle English pund (“pound”).

Pronunciation

Noun

punt m.

  1. A pound, money.
  2. A pound, weight.

Declension

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative punt puint
Vocative a phuint a phunta
Genitive puint punt
Dative punt puint

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an punt na puint
Genitive an phuint na bpunt
Dative leis an bpunt

don phunt

 leis na puint

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
punt phunt bpunt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin pōns (compare Catalan pont, French pont, Italian ponte, Occitan pònt, Portuguese ponte, Spanish puente) < Proto-Indo-European *pont- (“path, road”).

Pronunciation

Noun

punt m. (plural punts)

  1. bridge

Slovene

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Noun

punt m.

  1. revolt

 

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Punt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Look up punt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Punt may refer to: In boats:
  • Punt (boat), a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow developed on the River Thames
  • Norfolk Punt, a type of racing dinghy developed in Norfolk
  • Cable ferry, known as a punt in Australian English
In people:
  • Jos Punt (born 1946), a Dutch bishop
  • Steve Punt (born 1962), a British comedian, of Punt and Dennis
    • Punt and Dennis, a comedy double act consisting of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis
  • Terry L. Punt (born 1949), Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
In other: Punt may also refer to: This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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