Punt vs Possession - What's the difference?
punt | possession |
(rugby, American football, Australian Rules football, Gaelic football, soccer) to kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.
* As a colloquialism, 'So I punted' means the speaker chose the best alternative among a menu of non-ideal choices.
(soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
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To retreat from one's objective.
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(rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground. Contrast drop kick.
A point in the game of faro.
The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
A bet or wager.
An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
(glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
(British, chiefly, Ireland) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
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(figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
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Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
Something that is owned.
Ownership]]; [[take, taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
A territory under the rule of another country.
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
* Shakespeare
(sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
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(linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
As nouns the difference between punt and possession
is that punt is bridge while possession is control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.As a verb possession is
(obsolete) to invest with property.punt
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), probably from (etyl)Etymology 2
Possibly a dialectal variant of (bunt); Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.Verb
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Derived terms
* drop punt * punt returner * punter * torpedo puntNoun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) ponte or (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- She heard of his punting at gaming tables.
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citation, passage=Eriksson's men still worth a punt }}
citation, passage=Australians have a reputation for being keen to bet on two flies climbing up a wall and today young ones often take a casual classroom punt }}
Etymology 4
From (etyl) punt, from (etyl) pund.Noun
(en noun)possession
English
Noun
(wikipedia possession) (en noun)- The car quickly became his most prized possession .
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- The car is in my possession .
- I'm in possession of the car.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions .
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession .
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession .
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- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession''' — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable '''possession — my foot will always be mine.