punch-v; 10 Senses

Sense Number 1: deliver a quick blow or poke; hit the surface of but not penetrate.

Examples:
An irate parent punched the coach in the face at the last game.
She rapidly punched the keys of her cell phone.
If the store clerk had punched the card number in manually, there would have been no problem.

Mappings:
VerbNet: carve-21.2-2,swat-18.2
FrameNet: Cause_harm
PropBank: punch.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: move or drive forcefully as if by a punch.

Commentary: Syntax is: NP1 PUNCH PP
NOTE: involves penetration of an object at a single point (may be concrete or abstract, as in a space). INCLUDES: PUNCH THROUGH, PUNCH INTO, PUNCH IN, PUNCH OUT

Examples:
Israeli troops punched into south Lebanon on Wednesday.
The nail punched through the wall.
He punched in a three-pointer from the corner for the win.
Voters cannot see that the punch has punched out the appropriate chad.
As each column is punched, the card advances automatically to the next punching position.

Mappings:
VerbNet: carve-21.2-2
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3

Sense Number 3: weaken by revealing internal inconsistencies or inadequacies.

Commentary: Syntax is: NP1[agent] PUNCH (NP2[product]) PP{in NP[patient[abstract]]}

Examples:
Today, in their final effort to punch holes in the Government's case,
defense lawyers used four wiretapped conversations.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM

Sense Number 4: Register one's arrival at work

Commentary: IS: PUNCH IN

Examples:
What time do you usually punch in?

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
punch_in 1

Sense Number 5: Register one's departure from work

Commentary: IS: PUNCH OUT

Examples:
After I punched out, I went straight to the parking lot and drove home.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
punch_out 1

Sense Number 6: Improve or intensify

Commentary: IS: PUNCH UP

Examples:
Innovative ideas lead to punched-up profits.
They punched up the arrangement of the song.
Here I decided that the image was a little flat and so I punched up the contrast.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM

Sense Number 7: Invoke on a computer.

Commentary: IS: PUNCH UP

Examples:
Let me punch up that website for you.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM

Sense Number 8: Produce, as on a typing instrument.

Commentary: IS: PUNCH OUT

Examples:
His typewriter's last hurrah was helping him punch out his doctoral dissertation at Harvard.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM

Sense Number 9: Defeat an opponent.

Commentary: IS: PUNCH OUT

Examples:
As an SLNN writer, I was punched out for stories time and time again
until I finally got one.
Ali finally punched out the other boxer.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM

Sense Number 10: Offer a rebuttal, as in an argument.

Commentary: IS: PUNCH BACK

Examples:
She punched back by citing an argument from Kant.
He punched back, invoking a string of facts from high school physics.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM