Timeline for What do we call the spike in the cap of an ointment/cream tube?
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| Apr 24, 2020 at 21:42 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | There are many different types of punch. Spikes can be punches, some designed to make small circular holes, perforations. | |
| Apr 24, 2020 at 21:36 | comment | added | Pete Kirkham | No, a punch for a hole has a cutting edge which is the shape of the hole. | |
| Apr 24, 2020 at 7:04 | comment | added | Mr Lister | If I run the Dutch word doorprikpunt through Google Translate, I get puncture point. Can't seem to find many examples where that phrase is used in the correct context though, so not posting an answer. | |
| Apr 24, 2020 at 1:15 | comment | added | Will Crawford | The word is punch; the puncture is either the process or the result of using it ("punct" for point, as in punctuation). c.f. creator vs creature or eraser vs erasure. | |
| Apr 23, 2020 at 11:06 | comment | added | Henry | @Mazura I would have thought the puncture was the hole. So perhaps puncturer as in US Patent 6098795 or, as Richard Kayser suggests, simply punch | |
| Apr 23, 2020 at 2:52 | comment | added | Richard Kayser | @Mazura I didn't say that it was 'spiky' shaped. Perhaps this comment belongs somewhere else. BTW, none of the dictionaries I've checked contain a definition of puncture as an object used for puncturing things. | |
| Apr 22, 2020 at 23:56 | comment | added | Mazura | It's a puncture. Because it's for puncturing things. It has a purpose, and therefore a name, it's not just 'spiky' shaped. | |
| Apr 22, 2020 at 15:00 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'I'm not sure what these spikes are usually called.' Just 'spikes'. | |
| Apr 22, 2020 at 14:53 | history | answered | Richard Kayser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |