different between stake vs punt

English

Etymology

From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”). Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste?k/
• Homophone: steak
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

stake (plural stakes)

1. A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.

   We have surveyor's stakes at all four corners of this field, to mark exactly its borders.
2. (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
3. A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.
4. (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.

   Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake.
5. A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
6. That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
7. A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
8. (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
   • 1910, Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

     Every city, or stake, including a chief town and surrounding towns, has its president, with two counselors; and this president has a high council of chosen men.

Synonyms

• (croquet): peg

Derived terms

• Stakeford
• stakeholder

Related terms

• burn at the stake
• pull up stakes
• stake of Zion
• table stakes
• (wager or pledge): at stake

Translations

Verb

stake (third-person singular simple present stakes, present participle staking, simple past and past participle staked)

1. (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.

2. (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
   • 2014, A. J. Gallant, Dracula: Hearts of Stone

     “You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?”

3. (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
4. (transitive) To provide another with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.

Synonyms

• (put at risk): bet, hazard, wager

Derived terms

• stake a claim
• stake out

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stake”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Keast, Keats, Skate, kates, ketas, skate, steak, takes, teaks

Dutch

Verb

stake

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of steken
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of staken

Anagrams

• kaste

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English staca, from Proto-Germanic *stakô.

Alternative forms

• staak, stak, stack

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sta?k(?)/

Noun

stake (plural stakes)

1. A stake; wood put in the ground as a marker or support.
2. A fencepost; a stake used in concert to form a barrier.
3. A branch or bough; an extension of a tree.
4. A stave or stick; a cut (and often shaped) piece of wood.
5. (rare) A prickle or splint.
6. (rare) A metal bar or pole.
7. (rare) A stabbing feeling.

Derived terms

• staken
• stakyng

Descendants

• English: stake
• Scots: stak, staik

References

• “st?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-12-02.

Etymology 2

From the noun.

Verb

stake

1. Alternative form of staken

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish staki, from Old Norse staki, from Proto-Germanic *stakô, from Proto-Indo-European *steg-.

Noun

stake c

1. (short for ljusstake) candlestick
2. (vulgar) erection
3. (vulgar) erect penis
4. (slang, uncountable) balls; courage, assertiveness

Declension

Related terms

• ljusstake
• adventsljusstake

Anagrams

• steka

English

Etymology 1

From Old English [Term?], from Latin pont? (“Gaulish flat-bottomed boat, pontoon”), from pons (“bridge”); readopted from Middle Low German punte (“ferry boat”) or Middle Dutch ponte (“ferry boat”) of the same origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. (nautical) A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.

Translations

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly a dialectal variant of bunt. Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
   • 1975, Barry Targan, Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, page 133:

     At the dump he emptied the station wagon quickly and only once punted a bag of refuse, exploding it like a pinata at a Mexican Christmas.

   • 2019, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow (One World, ?ISBN), page 100:

     He even hated pets—I once saw him punt a cat.

   1. (rugby, American football, Australian Rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
   2. (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
2. (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
   • 2014, John Prados, The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power, University of Texas Press (?ISBN), page 91:

     The briefer reported it had been terminated on orders from Secretary Schlesinger, but attributed this to a sense Shamrock produced little, not to the fact it had been discovered. The NSA briefer punted on whether Fort Meade had been reading Americans' private messages, ...

3. To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
4. (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
5. (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
   • 2001, Roger A. Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows (page 236)

     The user is punted from the channel, and must rejoin to gain access.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.

See also

• drop kick

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French pointe or Spanish punto (“point”). Doublet of point.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. A point in the game of faro.
2. The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
3. A bet or wager.
4. (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?(Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
6. A wild guess.
7. An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
8. (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.

Translations

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Britain) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally

   • She heard […] of his punting at gaming tables.
3. (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.

Translations

Related terms

• punter

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Irish punt, from Middle English pund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.

Further reading

• Punt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Punt in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin punctum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?punt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?pun/

Noun

punt m (plural punts)

1. point (specific location)
2. (grammar) dot, point (punctuation mark)
3. (mathematics) point (used for separating the fractional part from the whole part)
4. dot (used in Morse code)

Derived terms

Related terms

• puntuar
• punyir
• punxar

Further reading

• “punt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Hyphenation: punt
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin punctum.

Noun

punt n (plural punten, diminutive puntje n)

1. point
   1. A position, place, or spot
   2. A moment in time
   3. A central idea, argument, or opinion of a discussion or presentation
   4. A tally of worth or score (such as in a game)
   5. A mark, note, or grade (as in for a class)
   6. (geometry) geometric point

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From French point, from Latin punctus.

Noun

punt m (plural punten, diminutive puntje n)

1. The terminal point of something

2. dot

3. full stop, period

4. A pointy slice of a cake, pie or pizza.

   Synonym: taartpunt

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”), from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), from pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch”).

Alternative forms

• punnt (obsolete)
• púnt (Munster)

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /p?u?n??t??/ (also spelled púnt)
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /p??n??t??/

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint or punta)

1. pound (unit of weight, unit of currency)

Declension

• Alternative plural: punta (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English pound.

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

1. (of enclosure) pound

Declension

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

1. butt(-end)
2. tip (of finger)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

punt

1. Alternative form of puinn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??n?t??/

Mutation

Further reading

• "punt" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “punt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “punt” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “punt” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “punt” in the National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge.

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”).

Noun

punt m (genitive singular punt, plural puint)

1. (numismatics, unit of measure) pound

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “punt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old French

Noun

punt m (oblique plural punz or puntz, nominative singular punz or puntz, nominative plural punt)

1. Alternative form of pont

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) pùnt

Etymology

From Latin p?ns, p?ntem (compare Catalan pont, French pont, Italian ponte, Occitan pònt, Portuguese ponte, Spanish puente), from Proto-Indo-European *pont- (“path, road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [punt]

Noun

punt m (plural punts)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) bridge

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /púnt/

Noun

p?nt m inan

1. revolt

Inflection

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English pund.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /p??nt/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /p?nt/

Noun

punt f (plural punnoedd or punnau)

1. (numismatics) pound (sterling)
2. pound (weight)

   Synonym: pwys

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “punt”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies