different between punch vs knuckle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Etymology 1

From Middle English punchen, partially from Old French ponchonner (“to punch”), from ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pung? (“I prick”); and partially from Middle English punchen, a syncopated variant of punischen ("to punish"; see punish). Also influenced by Middle English punchon ("a punch"; see puncheon).

Noun

punch (countable and uncountable, plural punches)

1. (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
2. (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
3. (uncountable) Impact.

Synonyms

• (strike with the fist): blow, box, bunch of fives (Britain)
• (power, strength): oomph, pep

Hyponyms

• (strike with the fist): jab, hook, king hit, uppercut, pounding

Derived terms

Related terms

• puncheon

Translations

See also

• (A strike with the fist): slap

Verb

punch (third-person singular simple present punches, present participle punching, simple past and past participle punched)

1. (transitive) To strike with one's fist.

   If she punches me, I'm gonna break her nose.

2. (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
3. (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
4. (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
5. (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.

   He punched a hit into shallow left field.

6. (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc)
7. To thrust against; to poke.

   to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow

Synonyms

• (To strike with the fist): box, slug

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortened form of puncheon, from Old French ponchon (“pointed tool”), from Latin punctio, from punctus, perfect passive participle of pung? (“I prick”).

Noun

punch (plural punches)

1. (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.
   1. (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
2. (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
3. (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
4. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.

Translations

See also

• centrepunch, centre punch, centerpunch
• hole punch
• nail punch
• paper punch
• three-hole punch

Verb

punch (third-person singular simple present punches, present participle punching, simple past and past participle punched)

1. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
2. To mark a ticket.

Hypernyms

• (to create a hole): perforate, pierce

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Hindi ???? (p??c, “five”), because of the drink's original five ingredients (spirits, water, lemon juice, sugar, and spice), from Sanskrit ?????? (páñcan). Doublet of five, cinque, pimp, and Pompeii.

Noun

punch (countable and uncountable, plural punches)

2. A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 4

From Punch.

Noun

punch (plural punches)

1. (entomology) Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• pons (obsolete)
• puns (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from English punch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?n?/
• Hyphenation: punch

Noun

punch m (uncountable)

1. punch (beverage)

French

Alternative forms

• ponch (1990 reform spelling)

Etymology

From English punch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???/

Noun

punch m (plural punchs)

1. punch (drink)

Further reading

• “punch” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Noun

punch m (plural punches)

1. punch (drink)

English

Etymology

From Middle English knokel (“finger joint”), from Old English cnucel (“the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint”), from Proto-West Germanic *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (“knuckle, knot, bump”), as *knukô (“bone, joint”) +? *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Dutch knokkel (“knuckle”), Low German Knökel (“knuckle”), German Knöchel (“ankle, knuckle”), Old Norse knykill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

knuckle (plural knuckles)

1. Any of the joints between the phalanges of the fingers.
2. (by extension) A mechanical joint.
3. A cut of meat.
4. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
5. The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly used of the kneejoint of a human being.
   • 1567, Ovid, Arthur Golding (translator), Metamorphoses

     With wearie knockles on thy brim she kneeled sadly downe

6. (obsolete) The joint of a plant.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, The History of Dense and Rare

     In the West Indies there are found , even in sandy deserts and very dry places , large canes , which at every joint or knuckle yield a good supply of fresh water

7. (shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
8. A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.

9. (skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

knuckle (third-person singular simple present knuckles, present participle knuckling, simple past and past participle knuckled)

1. (transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles.

   He knuckled the sleep from his eyes.

2. (intransitive) To bend the fingers.
3. (intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To yield.

   Synonym: knuckle under