Bunt vs Brunt - What's the difference?
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The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
(baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
(baseball, softball) The act of bunting
(aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
A fungus (Ustilago foetida ) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.
(baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
(nautical) To swell out.
(rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
The full adverse effects of; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
The major part of; the bulk.
* If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
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As nouns the difference between bunt and brunt
is that bunt is the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard while brunt is the full adverse effects of; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.As a verb bunt
is (baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.bunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- The bunt of the sail was green.
- The bunt was fielded cleanly.
- The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
See also
* ("bunt" on Wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- Jones bunted the ball.
- Jones bunted .
- We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the "Bunt Club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
- The sail bunts .
brunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina's winds.
- Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.