punched, ppl. a.
(pʌnʃt)
[f. punch v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Of metal-work: Beaten, hammered, wrought; repoussé; = pounced ppl. a.1 1. Obs. exc. Hist.
| 1415 Mandate of Hen. V to Corporation of York in Drake Eboracum (1736) App. 17 Item 2 petitz ewers d'argent, d'orrez, l'une chased et l'autre pounched. 1488 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 85 Item, a cop with a couir ouregilt and punchit. 1861 W. R. Wilde Catal. Antiq. R. Irish Acad. 631 The details of the punched or hammered-up ornament. |
2. a. Perforated or pierced with a punch. punched card, a card in which a pattern of holes, punched in it in accordance with a prescribed code, represents information; similarly punched paper, punched (paper) tape; freq. attrib.; cf. paper tape s.v. paper n. 12, perforated tape s.v. perforated ppl. a. 1.
| 1876 Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 122 The two lines of larger holes in the punched paper. 1885 Electrician 27 Nov. 57/1 The Wheatstone fast-speed transmitter.., by which one punched tape served for twenty or thirty different wires. 1890 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. CXXIX. 301 These punched record cards can easily be read and verified. 1903 Daily Chron. 18 July 8/4 Small punched holes, overcast with button-hole stitch. 1904 Ibid. 28 July 8/5 Broderie Anglaise, which we call punched or eyelet-hole embroidery. 1919 A. Macfarlane Lectures on Ten British Physicists 79 To realize the first idea..he had recourse to the device of punched cards similar to those invented by Jacquard for the weaving loom. 1940 W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation 2 Tables of functions are constructed from their differences with great efficiency, either as printed tables or as a file of punched cards. 1948 Electronics Aug. 100/1 Approximate positions of the stars, already stored in a punched-card catalog, may be coupled to the servomechanism. 1959 Engineering 2 Jan. 5/3 The machine can operate from standard punched tape or can be plugged into a long distance teleprinter circuit. 1962 E. Godfrey Retail Selling & Organ. i. 6 Mechanized handling of goods, punched-card accounting systems and advertising direct to the consumer..involve costs which the smaller business cannot afford. 1963 Listener 21 Mar. 489/2 A computer..which read a quarter of a million words of Greek prose, translated into its own punched⁓paper language. 1968 Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 191/1 The commonest way..of inserting data and program into a computer is via punched paper tape or punched cards. 1975 T. Allbeury Special Collection i. 5 In Central Intelligence Records they had thousands of simple punched cards..in May 1944. 1980 D. Bloodworth Trapdoor v. 24 The formidable batteries of punched-card systems and data banks. |
b. Bot. = perforated 1 c.
| 1793 Martyn Lang. Bot., Punched leaf. |
3. punched out: said of a wound with a defined edge.
| 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Surg. II. 616 Edges [of ulcer] punched out, perpendicular, irregular. 1898 Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. IX. No. 34. 129 He described the sore as ‘punched out’. 1900 Daily News 19 Jan. 3/4 The wounds both of entrance and of exit [of Mauser bullets] were small, and presented a clean punched-out appearance. |