punch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A tool for circular or other piercing: a leather punch.
2. n. A tool for forcing a pin, bolt, or rivet in or out of a hole.
3. n. A tool for stamping a design on a surface.
4. n. A tool for making a countersink.
5. v. To use a punch or use a punch on.
6. v. To hit with a sharp blow of the fist.
7. v. To poke or prod with a stick.
8. v. Western U.S. To herd (cattle).
9. v. To depress (a key or button, for example) in order to activate a device or perform an operation: punched the "repeat” key; punched in the number on the computer.
10. v. Baseball To hit (a ball) with a quick short swing.
11. n. A blow with the fist.
12. n. Vigor or drive. See Synonyms at vigor.
13. punch in To check in formally at a job upon arrival.
14. punch out To check out formally at a job upon departure.
15. punch out To knock unconscious with a punch.
16. punch out Slang To eject from a military aircraft.
17. idiom. beat to the punch To make the first decisive move: a marketing team that beat all the competitors to the punch.
18. n. A beverage of fruit juices and sometimes a soft drink or carbonated water, often spiced and mixed with a wine or liquor base.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make a hole or holes in with a punch or some similar instrument; pierce; perforate: as, to punch a metal plate.
2. To make with or as with a punch: as, to punch a hole in something.
3. n. A tool the working end of which is pointed, blunt, a continuous edge inclosing an area, or a pattern in relief or intaglio, and which acts either by pressure or percussion (applied in the direction of its longitudinal axis) to perforate or indent a solid material, or to drive out or in objects inserted in previously formed perforations or cavities. The pointed punch may be regarded as a chisel with a very narrow edge, cutting, therefore, in one point only, and forcing adjacent parts of the material asunder by a wedge-like action. The action of a punch with a continuous edge inclosing an area is also analogous to the action of a chisel. The action of a flat-nosed punch, when used with a die to which it is fitted, is that of a shear-blade, the parts of the material operated upon being separated by sliding over each other, instead of being wedged apart, as is the operation of the pointed punch. Hardened and tempered steel is the usual material of which punches are made. Solid punches with engraved faces are used for stamping-dies, as in coining, and with plain flat faces are used in connection with accnrately fitted dies for making clean-cut holes in metal plates, and also for punching out blanks for buttons, coins, small gear-wheels, etc. Hollow punches, or punches having continuous edges inclosing an area, are principally used for cutting either very thin, soft sheet-metal, as tin, brass, or copper plates, or other soft flexible substances, as leather, paper, or cloth. The pointed punch is used for marking centers in the operation of turning, or for punching holes in thin materials where clean cutting is of no importance, as in punching holes in sheet-zinc or -tin for the reception of nails in nailing such sheets to wood.
4. n. A tool used to force nail-heads below the surface.
5. n. A stone-masons' chipping-tool; a puncheon.
6. n. In surgery, an instrument used for extracting the stumps of teeth.
7. n. In decorative art, a tool in the form of bar, sometimes fitted with a handle and engraved at the end in a cross, concentric ring, or other device. It is used for impressing ornamental patterns upon clay or other plastic materials.
8. n. The engraved model of a printing-type on the end of a steel rod: so called from its being punched in a copper bar which makes the matrix, or a reversed impression of the model.
9. n. In carpentry, studding by which a roof is supported.
10. n. In hydraulic engineering, a short length placed on the top of a pile to permit the monkey of a piledriver to bear upon it when it has been driven too low to be struck directly; a dolly.
11. n. In coal-mining, same as pout.
12. n. A punch operated by the rolling action of two levers on one fulcrum, forming a toggle.
13. Same as punish.
14. To give a blow, dig, or thrust to; beat with blows of the fist: as, to punch One on the head, or to punch one's head.
15. n. A blow, dig, or thrust, us with the fist, elbow, or knee: as, to give one a punch in the ribs or a punch on the head.
16. Short and fat.
17. n. A short, fat fellow.
18. n. A short-legged, barrel-bodied horse, of an English draft-breed.
19. n. A short humpbacked hook-nosed puppet, with a squeaking voice, the chief character in a street puppet-show called “Punch and Judy,” who strangles his child, beats his wife (Judy) to death, belabors a policeman, and does other tragical and outrageous things in a comical way.
20. n. A drink commonly made with wine or spirits, and either water or some substitute, as a decoction of tea, and flavored with lemon-juice or lemon-peel and sugar. Punch is usually named from the alcoholic liquor which it contains, as brandy-punch, claret-punch, rum-punch, but sometimes also from other ingredients, as milk-punch, tea-punch, or from some person or circumstance, as Regent's punch, Swedish punch, Webster punch.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable A hit or strike with one's fist.
2. n. uncountable Power, strength, energy.
3. n. uncountable Impact.
4. n. countable A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to punch.
5. v. transitive To strike with one's fist.
6. v. transitive, of cattle To herd.
7. v. transitive To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
8. v. transitive To enter (information) on a device or system.
9. v. transitive To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
10. v. transitive To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc)
11. n. countable A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
12. n. countable A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
13. n. countable A hole or opening created with a punch
14. v. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
15. v. To mark a ticket.
16. n. uncountable A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. 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
2. n. The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
3. n. A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
4. n. One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses.
5. v. To thrust against; to poke.
6. n. colloq. A thrust or blow.
7. 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.
8. n. (Pile Driving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
9. n. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
10. v. To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow

WordNet 3.0

1. v. deliver a quick blow to
2. v. make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation
3. n. an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl
4. n. a tool for making holes or indentations
5. n. (boxing) a blow with the fist
6. v. drive forcibly as if by a punch