(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.
Puncher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, punches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now it’s my era.” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs), whose lone career defeat was a majority-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013, was thought to be the faster and stronger fighter and he showed it on Saturday night, consistently landing the harder, more meaningful blows against one of this generation’s finest boxer-punchers, mostly getting off first.
(2) And I’m in control of doing the things that he wants me to do in the campaign.” When Trump, who has often bragged about being “a counter-puncher”, went after the Khans, no one inside the camp was quick enough to spot the controversy.
(3) The popular red-headed puncher from Guadalajara won a unanimous decision over Miguel Cotto on Saturday night to capture the WBC and lineal middleweight titles at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
(4) Johnson was a puncher-boxer and dandy; Dempsey an uncomplicated hitter; Tunney had grace and nerve and fast feet; Louis’s fast hands punched in a blur of combinations, and he had a killer instinct as well as chivalry; Marciano had relentless oomph and steam-hammer cruelty.
(5) Rather they defended stoutly to retain a puncher's chance.
(6) A method is described whereby open field behaviour of rats can be automatically registered using a TV camera, a video converter, an X-Y recorder and a papertape puncher.
(7) The other thought I took away from that Canelo-Mosley bout was that Canelo is a highly efficient puncher, landing a high percentage.
(8) He wasn't a counter-puncher, nothing to compare with Floyd Patterson .
(9) Newly developed instruments: Loop ligation-applicator, Tissue-Puncher (morcellation-forceps), Aqua-Purator and the new CO2-PNEUS-AUTOMATIC (S = security) have enabled us to replace some of the prior operations requiring classic gynecologic laparotomy with surgical-therapeutic pelviscopy: Ovarectomy, adnectomy, myomectomy, cystectomy, resection of the tube-pregnancy.
(10) The reported concerns over Khan being weakened by his observation of Ramadan are moot: had the Bolton puncher had the nod two weeks ago that Berto seems to have had since June, he could have fit in an eight-week training camp ahead of 12 September.
(11) Mayweather has a couple of ways to win the fight: as a counter-puncher, wait for Pacquiao to make mistakes and make him pay for those mistakes; or just box him, dance around, move and do what he does best.
(12) Thus, instead of Liverpool taking a puncher's chance into the final day, they were left with grown men blubbing on national television and a final 10 minutes that resembled Sideshow Bob stepping on all the rakes .
(13) If you want to win the game of life, you must be a counter-puncher.
(14) And as he showed in his bout with Brazeau, the apparently overmatched Dauphin can be an effective counter-puncher.
(15) Being able to stay in a game, with a puncher’s chance of a result, was uppermost in his thoughts.
(16) Having left his best alternatives back in the USA, Klinsmann needs an animated Dempsey rather than a breathless one, to give his team a puncher’s chance.
(17) The device operates automatically giving analogue signals in the output for the recorder and discrete ones for the tape puncher to process the results obtained by computer.
(18) Sadler said his man was a thunderous, murderous puncher.
(19) Murray, unlike the vast majority of British players, is essentially a counter-puncher and there have been some suggestions that Petchey, in attempting to get the teenager to shorten the points, may have pushed him a little too hard.
(20) All specimens used were punched out with a paper puncher of 3mm diameter.