(v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
(n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
(n.) A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.
(v. t.) To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
(v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands.
(n.) The act of punting the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott has punted some key decisions off into a new defence white paper he'll commision if he wins next Saturday.
(2) Brees is sacked by Cliff Avril on third-and-nine, taking his team out of field goal range, and instead Thomas Morstead comes back out to punt.
(3) 6.46pm GMT Falcons 10 - Seahawks 0, 0:31 1st quarter On 3rd down, Wilson can't find Golden Tate on the far sideline and Seattle punt it down to the Atlanta 13.
(4) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(5) Backed up against his own end zone after a tremendous Anger punt, Ryan Fitzpatrick succeeded in dumping the ball off to Shonn Greene but then found that his team had given up a safety anyway, on account of a holding call against Chance Warmack in the end zone.
(6) Little Defoe was allowed to meet a hopeful punt with his head, mid-way inside the Arsenal half, and flick on the ball to Rafael van der Vaart.
(7) McGuinness added that the republic was better off when it had its own currency, the punt.
(8) 2.01am GMT Florida State 3-0 Auburn, 5:30, 1st quarter And THERE'S CHRIS DAVIS, he returns Guayo's punt for 22 yards to get Auburn to the Florida State 22!
(9) Sports Direct, the retailer run by its mecurial founder Mike Ashley, bought a 4.6% stake in Debenhams on Thursday night, in the company’s latest multimillion pound punt on a rival retailers’ shares.
(10) June 24, 2014 5.46pm BST Half time: Costa Rica 0-0 England 45 mins: A long punt downfield has the England defence in all sorts of trouble.
(11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
(12) Sacked by Dee Ford, AGAIN, for eight yards to force a punt.
(13) Akinfeev's punt upfield caused consternation in a City defence that never seems the same when Vincent Kompany, still sidelined with a thigh injury , is absent.
(14) 3.41am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 0:11 of 4th Quarter On 3rd & 8, Leach runs for a few yards, and the Ravens call time before punting it away.
(15) Chris Davis almost muffs the punt return for Auburn, that's not as dirty as it sounds.
(16) 2.12am GMT And we're back On 3rd & 13, Kaepernick throws short to Walker, short of the first down, and the 49ers punt it into the end zone.
(17) Deep into stoppage time, Allardyce’s defence showed the same nervousness about which he had complained in last weekend’s draw at Stoke, failing to deal either with Cesc Fàbregas’s upfield punt or the header from César Azpilicueta that played in Nemanja Matic who finished neatly past the advancing Mannone.
(18) Panama try a punt forward from a free kick, but it's pretty optimistic and the US cheerfully clear it.
(19) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(20) Doing so would punt the fight over whether to lock in 2014 sequestration levels at $967 billion until December.
Quant
Definition:
(n.) A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
Example Sentences:
(1) CK-BB was assayed using a radioimmunological system by saturation with Mallinchrodt double antibody 125I labelled (RIA Quant-CPK-BB).
(2) There was seen a reduction of the frequency of the miniature potentials of end plates (PEP), and a reduction of quant PEP composition.
(3) Validation is provided by comparison to target values for human quality control reference sera, and by comparing the values obtained by HPGC to the beta-quant method (LRC).
(4) Interrupted and continuous microsuturing techniques were compared 3 weeks after microarteriorrhaphy in the rat femoral artery using light microscopy, and internal luminal diameter determinations were measured with a Bio Quant II Digitizer.
(5) Important criteria for the development of a new turbidimetric immunoassay Tina-quant Albumin in urine to determine urinary albumin are presented.
(6) The number of biopsy fragments, the total tissue area, and the total lung area were measured in square millimeters by a computer-assisted digitizing system using specific (Bio-Quant) software (R and M Biometrics Inc).
(7) Even the name of its prototype, the Quant e-Sportlimousine, is delightfully oxymoronic.
(8) Ferrous sulfate and ferrous gluconate tablets ingested in therapeutic doses do not cause false-positive, true-positive, or false-negative stool Hemoccult tests and do not cause a significant increase in gastrointestinal blood loss compared to controls as assessed by the Hemo-Quant assay.
(9) The Boehringer Gluco-quant kit, originally designed for spectrophotometric measurement, was successfully coupled to the bacterial luciferase NAD(P)H-linked system.
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(11) Our results in brief: Tina-quant Albumin in urine is a reliable and useful test which is barely influenced by endogenous and exogenous interfering factors.
(12) Welders-assemblers of the Quant-type laser devices are exposed to bright light flashes of plasma and laser exceeding in certain measurements the maximal allowed level.
(13) A rapid survey of the elements in biological materials, covering most of the elements in the periodic table, is possible by using available software for semi-quantitative analysis (SEMI-QUANT) by inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.
(14) Results of the multicenter study with a new test Tina-quant Albumin in urine for the determination of the albumin concentration in urine were reported.
(15) Microelectrode study demonstrated that the fibers of the external surface were characterized, in comparison with those of the internal one, by lesser action potentials, prolonged trace negative potential, low quant composition of the end plate potentials, high amplitude and low frequency of the end plate miniature potentials.
(16) A Zeiss ICM 405 epi-illuminated fluorescent microscope with photographic interface to a Bio-Quant computerized microdensitometer measured IF signal intensity for GFAP.
(17) This latex immunoassay procedure uses commercially available ready-for-use reagents [Tina-Quant (a) Ferritin, Boehringer Mannheim] that have a long shelf life.