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Contemplate vs Thunk - What's the difference?

contemplate | thunk |

As verbs the difference between contemplate and thunk

is that contemplate is to look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider while thunk is (humorous|nonstandard) or thunk can be to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.

As an interjection thunk is

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As a noun thunk is

(computing|functional programming) a delayed computation.

contemplate

English

Verb

(contemplat)
  • To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
  • * Milton
    • To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
  • * Byron
    • We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
  • To consider as a possibility.
  • * A. Hamilton
    • There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
  • * Kent
    • If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * contemplative * contemplation * contemplatively

    References

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    thunk

    English

    Etymology 1

    By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk' and ' sunk

    Verb

    (head)
  • (humorous, nonstandard)
  • * {{quote-song
    • , year=1939 , composer= (lyrics) , artist= , title= , note=from , passage=I could think of things I never thunk before ...}}
    Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
    Derived terms
    * who'd have thunk it

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • .

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
    • I was thunked on the head by his stick.

    Etymology 3

    Claimed by the inventors to be from the supposed past tense, being coined when they realised after much thought (whence "thunk") that the type of an argument in could be predetermined at compile time; not, as is sometimes claimed, from the interjection, being the supposed sound made by data hitting the stack or an accumulator

    Noun

    (wikipedia thunk) (en noun)
  • (computing, functional programming) a delayed computation
  • (computing) In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  • (computing) a mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons, such as from 16-bit addresses to 32-bit to allow a 16-bit program to run on a 32-bit operating system.
  • * PC Mag (volume 14, number 17, 10 October 1995, page 326)
    • If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or write thunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.
    Related terms
    * thunking
    See also
    * closure English onomatopoeias