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punt 音标拼音: [p'ʌnt] n. 平底船,撑船,球未落地前踢出
vi. vt. 踢凌空球 平底船,撑船,球未落地前踢出踢淩空球 punt n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence [synonym: {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" [synonym: {punt}, {punting}] v 1: kick the ball 2: propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge" [synonym: {punt}, {pole}] 3: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [synonym: {bet on}, {back}, {gage}, {stake}, {game}, {punt}] Punt \Punt\, n. (Football) The act of punting the ball. [1913 Webster] Punt \Punt\, v. i. 1. To boat or hunt in a punt. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. To punt a football. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 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. [1913 Webster] She heard . . . of his punting at gaming tables. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Punt \Punt\, n. Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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] 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 (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: v. [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football:
“Drop back 15 yards and punt!”]
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