(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.
Thump
Definition:
(n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
(n.) A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.
(v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.
(v. i.) To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine, but the most important new political fact is the unprecedented wave of support that has latched on to Corbyn: the hundreds of thousands who joined Labour, the thumping majority that handed him the leadership, the huge sections of the country that have tuned out of Westminster droid-talk.
(2) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
(3) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
(4) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(5) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
(6) John Terry’s opener had been thumped in early, Cesc Fàbregas’s corner veering into the penalty area for the centre-half to rise too easily above Rickie Lambert and plant a header down and beyond Simon Mignolet and Steven Gerrard on the goal-line.
(7) Italy 1-1 England | Friendly international match report Read more The Tottenham Hotspur forward, who was described as a “game-changer” by Roy Hodgson after his cameo here, was summoned from the bench in the second half and thumped in his side’s equaliser from distance 11 minutes from time.
(8) Accused by Trump of lacking energy, he has taken to thumping a fist into his hand for emphasis.
(9) In a fortnight we will hear how much rail fares will be going up in 2015 – and long-suffering commuters can expect to be thumped again.
(10) One plan for dealing effectively with this emergency consists of seven steps of cardiopulmonary resuscitation: (1) establishing the diagnosis and deciding whether to resuscitate; (2) administering a precordial thump, noting the time and summoning aid; (3) establishing a patent airway and performing artificial ventilation and external cardiac compression; (4) instituting general supportive measures; (5) diagnosing the cardiac arrhythmia responsible for the arrest; (6) treating the arrhythmia; and (7) managing the patient after resuscitation.
(11) The potential benefit of the precordial thump and cough versions greatly outweighs their risks; hence these manoeuvres should probably be reintroduced into schedules for first aid resuscitation.
(12) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
(13) A day that started with Wales climbing above England in the Fifa rankings for the first time ended in glorious fashion as Gareth Bale’s thumping header eight minutes from time put Chris Coleman and his players firmly on the road to France.
(14) For Stoke, it was a second 4-0 defeat in six days, after Monday’s home thumping by Tottenham Hotspur , and a third game in a row in which they have conceded four.
(15) This has been a fantastic experience.” This marked Scotland’s biggest away win since an 8-2 thumping of Northern Ireland in 1949.
(16) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
(17) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.
(18) The septally lesioned rabbits exhibited increases in fear reactions such as thumping, escape responses and vocalization when caught, rather than increased aggressiveness.
(19) For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria’s wealth comes from here,” said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
(20) After an hour, Rob Kiernan thumped the ball across the six-yard box and Marc-Antoine Fortuné stabbed his shot over the bar.