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punch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Etymology 1
From Middle English punchen, partially from Old French ponchonner (“to punch”), from ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pung? (“I prick”); and partially from Middle English punchen, a syncopated variant of punischen ("to punish"; see punish). Also influenced by Middle English punchon ("a punch"; see puncheon).
Noun
punch (countable and uncountable, plural punches)
- (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
- (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
- (uncountable) Impact.
Synonyms
- (strike with the fist): blow, box, bunch of fives (Britain)
- (power, strength): oomph, pep
Hyponyms
- (strike with the fist): jab, hook, king hit, uppercut, pounding
Derived terms
Related terms
- puncheon
Translations
See also
- (A strike with the fist): slap
Verb
punch (third-person singular simple present punches, present participle punching, simple past and past participle punched)
- (transitive) To strike with one's fist.
- If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.
- (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
- (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
- (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
- (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
- He punched a hit into shallow left field.
- (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc)
- To thrust against; to poke.
- to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow
Synonyms
- (To strike with the fist): box, slug
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Shortened form of puncheon, from Old French ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pung? (“I prick”).
Noun
punch (plural punches)
- (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
- (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
- (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
- (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
- A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
Translations
See also
- centrepunch, centre punch, centerpunch
- hole punch
- nail punch
- paper punch
- three-hole punch
Verb
punch (third-person singular simple present punches, present participle punching, simple past and past participle punched)
- To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
- To mark a ticket.
Hypernyms
- (to create a hole): perforate, pierce
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Hindi ???? (p??c, “five”), because of the drink's original five ingredients (spirits, water, lemon juice, sugar, and spice), from Sanskrit ?????? (páñcan). Doublet of five, cinque, pimp, and Pompeii.
Noun
punch (countable and uncountable, plural punches)
- A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
Descendants
Translations
Etymology 4
From Punch.
Noun
punch (plural punches)
- (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.
Dutch
Alternative forms
- pons (obsolete)
- puns (dated)
Etymology
Borrowed from English punch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?n?/
- Hyphenation: punch
Noun
punch m (uncountable)
- punch (beverage)
French
Alternative forms
- ponch (1990 reform spelling)
Etymology
From English punch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???/
Noun
punch m (plural punchs)
- punch (drink)
Further reading
- “punch” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Noun
punch m (plural punches)
- punch (drink)
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hammer
English
Etymology
From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros (compare Sanskrit ????? (a?mará, “stony”)), itself a derivation from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
For *h?é?m? (“stone”), compare Lithuanian akmuõ, Latvian akmens, Russian ?????? (kamen?), Serbo-Croatian kam?n, Albanian kmesë (“sickle”), Ancient Greek ????? (ákm?n, “meteor rock, anvil”), Avestan ????????????????????? (namsa), Sanskrit ?????? (á?man)) (root *h?e?- (“sharp”)).
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hæ.m?(?)/
- Rhymes: -æm?(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /?hæ.m?/
Noun
hammer (plural hammers)
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- The act of using a hammer to hit something.
- A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
- (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
- (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
- (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
- (curling) The last stone in an end.
- (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
- One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
- St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- 1849, John Henry Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations
- He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.
- (journalism) Short for hammer headline.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
- Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mallet
Verb
hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)
- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- hammered money
- (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- (sports) To hit particularly hard.
- (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
- 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
- Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
- 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
- (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
- I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
- We hammered them 5-0!
- (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
- 1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)
- So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]
- 1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)
- (transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
- (transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
- (transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with
- Synonym: pound
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- hammer out
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ham?r/, [?h?m?]
Noun
hammer c (singular definite hammeren, plural indefinite hammere or hamre)
- hammer
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ham?/
- Homophone: Hammer
Verb
hammer
- (colloquial, regional) Contraction of haben wir.
Usage notes
This contraction is common throughout central Germany, southern Germany, and Austria. It is only occasionally heard in northern Germany.
See also
- simmer
Middle English
Noun
hammer
- Alternative form of hamer
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Alternative forms
- hammar
Noun
hammer m (definite singular hammeren, indefinite plural hammere or hamrer, definite plural hammerne or hamrene)
- a hammer (tool)
Related terms
- hamre (verb)
Etymology 2
Noun
hammer m
- indefinite plural of ham
References
- “hammer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Noun
hammer c (plural hammers, diminutive hammerke)
- hammer
Further reading
- “hammer”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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