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punch

/puhnch/US // pʌntʃ //UK // (pʌntʃ) //

冲床,冲孔,冲压,冲头

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
    • : forcefulness, effectiveness, or pungency in content or appeal; vigor; zest: a letter to voters that needs more punch.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give a sharp thrust or blow to, especially with the fist.
    • : Western U.S. and Western Canada. to drive.
    • : to poke or prod, as with a stick.
    • : Informal. to deliver with vigor.
    • : to strike or hit in operating: to punch the typewriter keys.
    • : to put into operation with or as if with a blow: to punch a time clock.
    • : Baseball. to hit with a short, chopping motion rather than with a full swing: He punched a soft liner just over third base for a base hit.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give a sharp blow to a person or thing, as with the fist: The boxer punches well.
  1. 1
    • : punch away, Informal. to keep trying or working, especially in difficult or discouraging circumstances; persevere: punching away at the same old job.
    • : punch in, to record one's time of arrival at work by punching a time clock.to keyboard into a computer: to punch in the inventory figures.
    • : punch out, to record one's time of departure from work by punching a time clock.Slang.to beat up or knock out with the fists.to extract from a computer by the use of a keyboard: to punch out data on last week's sales.to bail out; eject from an aircraft.
    • : punch up, to call up on a computer by the use of a keyboard: to punch up a list of hotel reservations.Informal.to enliven, as with fresh ideas or additional material: You'd better punch up that speech with a few jokes.

Phrases

  • punch in
  • punch out
  • beat to it (the punch)
  • can't punch one's way out of a paper bag
  • pack a punch
  • pleased as punch
  • pull no punches
  • roll with the punches
  • sucker punch
  • throw a punch

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Indeed, adds Ives, the S&P snub is “a gut punch to the bulls.”

  • This started as a notch-shaped cutout, and companies have lately worked that down to a single circle that looks like someone took a hole punch tool to the display.

  • The coronavirus hit the fashion industry with a tough combination of punches.

  • Insects pack a nutritional punch, in part because they’re full of protein.

  • Cameron pulls few punches in his descriptions of world leaders — Vladimir Putin, for instance.

  • Like Mike Tyson says, you have a great fight plan until you come out and take the first punch.

  • “Ordinarily, you see punch-counterpunch-punch,” as the attacked party tries to fend off the intruder, the former official said.

  • “You might as well punch yourself in the face,” he says when asked if he read about any of the controversy.

  • And while all he says he has spoken to still believe the interrogations saved lives, he said the report was a punch in the gut.

  • A squad soon arrived to take him away, and I saw the sergeant punch him in the face even though he went quietly.

  • Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.

  • But Punch was five; and he knew that going to England would be much nicer than a trip to Nassick.

  • Punch scratched himself in his sleep, and Judy moaned a little.

  • At the end of the first day Punch demanded to be set down in England, which he was certain must be close at hand.

  • "Yes," said Punch, lifted up in his father's arms to wave good-bye.