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Prod vs Thump - What's the difference?

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Prod is a related term of thump.


As nouns the difference between prod and thump

is that prod is (slang|sometimes derogatory) a protestant, (as termed by roman catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be protestant by their political ideology of irish unionism or ulster loyalism while thump is a blow that produces a muffled sound.

As a verb thump is

to hit (someone or something) as if to make a.

prod

English

(wikipedia prod)

Verb

(prodd)
  • To poke, to push, to touch.
  • To encourage, to prompt.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
  • A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
  • A poke.
    • "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
  • A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
    • (Fairholt)

    Derived terms

    * cattle prod

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    thump

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a blow that produces a muffled sound
  • * Tatler
    • The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
  • the sound of such a blow; a thud

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit (someone or something) as if to make a .
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 19, author=Jonathan Stevenson, work=BBC
    • , title= Leeds 1-3 Arsenal , passage=Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.}}
  • To thud or pound.
  • To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}