punt

10 definitions found

punt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Punt \Punt\, n.
     Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
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  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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  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the
        ground, when let fall from the hands.
        [1913 Webster]

  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.
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           She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables.
                                                    --Thackeray.
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  Punt \Punt\, n. (Football)
     The act of punting the ball.
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  Punt \Punt\, v. i.
     1. To boat or hunt in a punt.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. To punt a football.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

punt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

punt - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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]
  

punt - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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.
  

punt - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "punt":
     ante, ante up, back, bet, bet on, boot, calcitration, call,
     catch a crab, cover, cut a crab, drop kick, fade, feather,
     feather an oar, gamble, give way, hazard, kick, kicking, knee, lay,
     lay a wager, lay down, make a bet, meet a bet, pace, paddle,
     parlay, pass, place kick, play against, plunge, ply the oar, pull,
     row, row away, row dry, scull, see, ship oars, shoot, sky an oar,
     speculate, stake, stand pat, wager