Hunk vs Thunk - What's the difference?
hunk | thunk |
A large or dense piece of something.
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
(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.
(humorous, nonstandard)
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to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
(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)
In computing terms the difference between hunk and thunk
is that hunk is 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 while thunk is 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.As nouns the difference between hunk and thunk
is that hunk is a large or dense piece of something while thunk is a delayed computation.As a verb thunk is
past participle of lang=en.As an interjection thunk is
Representing the sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.hunk
English
Noun
(en noun)- a hunk of metal
- "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."
Synonyms
* (large or dense piece) chunk, lump, piece * (sexually attractive boy) beefcakeDerived terms
* hunkySee also
* bohunkReferences
* *thunk
English
Etymology 1
By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk' and ' sunkVerb
(head)- Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
Derived terms
* who'd have thunk itEtymology 2
OnomatopoeicVerb
(en verb)- 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 accumulatorNoun
(wikipedia thunk) (en noun)- 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.