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Hunk vs Swatch - What's the difference?

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Hunk is a related term of swatch.


As nouns the difference between hunk and swatch

is that hunk is a large or dense piece of something while swatch is a piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.

As a verb swatch is

to create a swatch.

hunk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large or dense piece of something.
    • a hunk of metal
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
    • "Jim, this is nice," I says. "I wouldn't want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of fish and some hot corn-bread."
  • (informal) A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular.
  • (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely separated by areas which are identical in both files would not be part of a single hunk. Differences that are separated by small regions which are identical in both files may comprise a single hunk. Patches are made up of hunks.
  • (US, slang) A honyock.

    • Synonyms

    * (large or dense piece) chunk, lump, piece * (sexually attractive boy) beefcake

    Derived terms

    * hunky

    See also

    * bohunk

    References

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    swatch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A piece, pattern, or sample, generally of cloth or a similar material.
    • He held a swatch of the wallpaper up to see if the colors would match the room.

    Verb

  • To create a swatch.
    • Swatching is important in knitting to obtain the correct gauge.