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Lung vs Mung - What's the difference?

lung | mung |

As nouns the difference between lung and mung

is that lung is a biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air while mung is a type of small bean.

As a verb mung is

to make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.

lung

English

(wikipedia lung)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) A biological organ that extracts oxygen from the air.
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    Synonyms

    * (organ) (in the plural) bellows (informal or archaic), (in the plural) lights

    Derived terms

    * aqualung * iron lung * leather-lunged * lungfish * lung flower * lung lichen * lungful * lung sac * lungwort

    mung

    English

    (wikipedia mung)

    Alternative forms

    * moong, munge

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of small bean.
  • The mung bean, cultivated for its sprouts, Vigna radiata or .

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from Mash Until No Good'', or a self referencing acronym, ''Mung Until No Good . Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing, informal) To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
  • (by extension, informal) to destroy
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