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Plunk vs Chunk - What's the difference?

plunk | chunk |

As verbs the difference between plunk and chunk

is that plunk is to drop or throw heavily (onto or into something) so that it makes a sound while chunk is to break into large pieces or chunks.

As a noun chunk is

a part of something that has been separated.

plunk

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To drop or throw heavily (onto or into something) so that it makes a sound
    • Enrique plunked his money down on the counter with a sigh and bellied up to the bar.
  • In baseball, to intentionally hit the batter with a pitch
    • The Braves retaliated by plunking Harper in the next inning.

    Synonyms

    * flump, thud English onomatopoeias

    chunk

    English

    (wikipedia chunk)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A part of something that has been separated.
    • The statue broke into chunks .
  • *
  • A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular.
    • A chunk of granite .
  • (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
  • * 1994 , Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide
    • The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.

    See also

    * piece * bit * lump * chuck * hunk

    External links

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break into large pieces or chunks.
  • (slang, chiefly, Southern US) To throw.