punt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: punt	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for punt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
punt n formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence Synonym(s): Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole (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" Synonym(s): punt, punting v kick the ball propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge" Synonym(s): punt, pole place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" Synonym(s): bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Punt \Punt\, v. i. 1. To boat or hunt in a punt. 2. To punt a football.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables. --Thackeray.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Punt \Punt\, n. Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. (Football) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Punt \Punt\, n. (Football) The act of punting the ball.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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}]