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9 definitions found 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\, n. (Football) The act of punting the ball. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: punt n 1: the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: {Irish pound}, {pound}] 2: an open flat-bottomed boat used in shallow waters and propelled by a long pole 3: kicking in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground [syn: {punting}] v 1: kick the ball; in certain kinds of sports 2: propel with a pole; of barges on rivers, for example [syn: {pole}] 3: place a bet on "Which horse are you backing?" "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: {bet on}, {back}, {gage}, {stake}, {game}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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 (13 Mar 01) [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}]
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