Punch
[pʌn(t)ʃ]
Definition
(noun.) (boxing) a blow with the fist; 'I gave him a clout on his nose'.
(noun.) a tool for making holes or indentations.
(noun.) an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl.
(verb.) deliver a quick blow to; 'he punched me in the stomach'.
(verb.) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation; 'perforate the sheets of paper'.
(verb.) drive forcibly as if by a punch; 'the nail punched through the wall'.
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Definition
(n.) A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
(n.) The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
(n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
(n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
(v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.
(n.) A thrust or blow.
(n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
(n.) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
(n.) A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
(n.) To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Perforate, bore, pierce.[2]. Push, poke.
n. [1]. Borer.[2]. Push, poke.[3]. Horse (short and thick).[4]. Buffoon (of a puppet-show), clown, harlequin, punchinello, merry-Andrew, zany, scaramouch, fool, antic, pickle-herring, jack-pudding.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perforate, poke, pierce, puncture, terebrate, bore
ANT:Stop, plug, seal, bung
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Definition
v.t. to strike or hit: to beat with the fist as one's head.—n. a stroke or blow with the fist elbow &c.
v.t. to prick or pierce with something sharp or blunt: to make a hole in with a steel tool.—n. a tool either blunt or hollow and sharp-edged for stamping or perforating: a kind of awl.—n. Punch′er.
n. contr. of Punchinello a humpbacked hook-nosed puppet with a squeaking voice one of the two main actors in the street puppet-show 'Punch and Judy:' Punch or the London Charivari the chief illustrated English comic journal (begun 17th July 1841).
n. a drink of five ingredients—spirit water sugar lemon-juice and spice.—ns. Punch′-bowl a large bowl for making punch in; Punch′-lād′le a ladle for filling glasses from a punch-bowl.
adj. (prov.) short and fat.—n. a short and fat man: a short-legged round-bodied horse.—adj. Punch′y.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of drinking the concoction called punch, denotes that you will prefer selfish pleasures to honorable distinction and morality. To dream that you are punching any person with a club or fist, denotes quarrels and recriminations.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A weekly obituary notice from London, chronicling the death of Humor.
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Examples
- How little do you know the effect of rack punch! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Come; a glass of punch! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As the punch disappeared, Mr. Micawber became still more friendly and convivial. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Waiter, rack punch. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A Suffolk Punch, when he's a good un, is worth his weight in gold. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Allow me my Italian humour--do I not come of the illustrious nation which invented the exhibition of Punch? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He sat doggedly down in his chair, and began sullenly sipping his tumbler of punch. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A representation of the punched paper for transmitting the word Bain is shown in this diagram. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Diametrically opposite to the chalk mark a small hole is punched into the ball to indicate the weightiest point. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He abandoned the attempt to cut dashes as such, in the paper tape, but instead punched three round holes so arranged as to form a triangle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Maurice made no reply, but punched holes in the gravel with his walking-stick. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In turning down the edges, it actually punched many small holes through the tin! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Every plate and piece of iron was made and punched in England and brought across the Atlantic. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He planned the cutting of punches which would stamp the outline of the type upon the matrix. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Did you ever breed any Suffolk Punches yourself, sir? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They are taken from the conductor by a screw thread and fed to the carrier, which takes thirty pins at a time and places them in front of a set of thirty punches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was done in a special machine of Edison's invention, called a perforator, consisting of a series of punches operated by a bank of keys--typewriter fashion. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Instead of punching Morse characters in the transmission tape however, it was perforated with a series of small round holes forming Roman letters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This punching of the cold metal without cutting, boring, drilling, hammering, or otherwise shaping the metal, was indeed a revelation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The first machines worked all right for the inventor, but inexperienced operators obtained surprising results through punching the keys and jerking the crank. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The baths are made by punching a hole near the lower edge of a fruit can and inserting a cork and short piece of glass tube. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I shall be very sorry to lose him next year, said Mr. Brooke, busily punching holes in the turf. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Punching engines, in like manner, force holes through iron plates an inch thick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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