What's the difference between haymaker and punch?

Haymaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who cuts and cures hay.
  • (n.) A machine for curing hay in rainy weather.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During sowing and haymaking, the total concentrations of dust were also high occasionally.
  • (2) Garcia tries a sweeping right hand, but Matthysse leans away comfortably and avoids the haymaker.
  • (3) Haymaker & Kernohan solidified the features of the acute disorder as did Dyck et al and Prineas & McLeod for the relapsing and chronic conditions.
  • (4) A rainy haymaking period calls for artificial drying of hay in order to reduce the incidence of farmer's lung.
  • (5) It’s got the heart of a bull and the subtlety of a haymaker.
  • (6) Cilic lines up another of his haymaker forehands, but the ball drops just wide and the Serb moves 3-2 up on serve.
  • (7) Last week Bramson, the activist investor, threw a lot of punches but missed with his intended haymaker by failing to say how “more than” £1bn of value could be realised.
  • (8) Matthysse then goes back to the one big punch theory with a huge right haymaker that looks comical as it misses Garcia by a mile.
  • (9) But if the top players really must get themselves idiotically suspended for the next leg, then let's see some proper old-school haymaker throwing, please, no half measures.
  • (10) As punches go, it was a short, low swing, rather than an old-fashioned haymaker, but the television cameras pick up everything these days and the likelihood is a Football Association charge of violent conduct.
  • (11) It’s a risky strategy and without new recruits they’ll probably still go down, but their fans would probably prefer to see them do so while on the front foot swinging haymakers.
  • (12) The incidence of farmer's lung was positively correlated with measures of daily rainfall and negatively correlated with days without rainfall and with sunshine during the haymaking period preceding the diagnosis.

Punch


Definition:

  • (n.) A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
  • (n.) The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
  • (n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
  • (n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
  • (v. t.) To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.
  • (n.) A thrust or blow.
  • (n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
  • (n.) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
  • (n.) A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
  • (n.) To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lebedev punched Polonsky during a heated early recording of NTVshniki.
  • (2) Histologic diagnosis of the disease was done by punch cervical biopsy and diagnostic curettage.
  • (3) We give a survey on the present situation regarding the methods and indications of punch biopsy as well as similar operations, including the design, orientation, and execution for the repair of small skin defects.
  • (4) In 16 of these patients skin slices from the alopecic areas were punch biopsied under local anaesthesia for determination of cytosol- and nuclear androgen receptor (AR).
  • (5) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (6) Here was a bit of magic to light up any semi-final and it had Roberto Martínez punching the air.
  • (7) Incisional slit grafting utilizes larger numbers of smaller grafts than does traditional punch grafting.
  • (8) Allardyce told an entertaining story about seeing José Mourinho punch the air at a Soccer Aid match when Chelsea’s manager realised he had convinced Fàbregas to sign for the club.
  • (9) In the current study, 70 endometrial cancer patients with suspected cervical involvement based on a positive endocervical curettage or punch biopsy were treated with initial surgery followed by tailored radiation or chemotherapy.
  • (10) In 2003 Mayweather allegedly punched two friends of his then-partner (and the mother of several of his children) Josie Harris in a nightclub and shook a female security guard.
  • (11) On that occasion, she related how Manning had punched her during a violent outburst that led to him being demoted to the rank of private.
  • (12) Two months after stopping therapy, the rhinitis changes had returned in all 10 patients from whom posttreatment punch biopsies were taken.
  • (13) Punch biopsy specimens of skin, obtained from the scalp and back of adult men, were minced and incubated with [3H]testosterone.
  • (14) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
  • (15) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
  • (16) All patients had punch biopsies taken from (1) a lesion containing Sarcoptes scabiei, (2) an inflammatory papule which did not contain a mite, and (3) normal skin.
  • (17) It’s just been a catalogue of disasters – the late nomination, when his party membership lapsed , the [alleged] punch-up.
  • (18) At the completion of sample dissolution, raw dissolution profile data are on the punched paper tape ready for computer processing via a time-sharing system.
  • (19) Individual hypothalamic nuclei were removed from 17-day-old rat embryos with 300 microns punches and maintained in suspension culture.
  • (20) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.

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