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suggest | thunk |

As verbs the difference between suggest and thunk

is that suggest is to imply but stop short of saying explicitly while thunk is (humorous|nonstandard) or thunk can be to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.

As an interjection thunk is

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As a noun thunk is

(computing|functional programming) a delayed computation.

suggest

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.
  • * (John Locke)
  • Some ideas are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Angelique Chrisafis, work=Guardian
  • , title= Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism , passage=She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.}}
  • To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 24, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
  • , title= Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , passage=In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= Sarah Boseley
  • , volume=189, issue=10, page=15, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Children shun vegetables and fruit , passage=The [British Heart Foundation's] data […] suggests there has been little improvement in eating, drinking and exercise habits in spite of the concern about obesity and the launch of the government's child measurement programme, which warns parents if their children are overweight. About a third of under-16s across the UK are either overweight or obese.}}
  • To ask for without demanding.
  • To recommend.
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • (obsolete) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested .

    Usage notes

    * (ask for without demanding) This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (the form ending in -ing ). See

    Synonyms

    * (imply but stop short of saying explicitly) allude, hint, imply, insinuate * (ask for without demanding) propose * See also

    Derived terms

    * suggestion * suggestive

    See also

    * (Suggestion)

    thunk

    English

    Etymology 1

    By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk' and ' sunk

    Verb

    (head)
  • (humorous, nonstandard)
  • * {{quote-song
  • , year=1939 , composer= (lyrics) , artist= , title= , note=from , passage=I could think of things I never thunk before ...}}
    Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
    Derived terms
    * who'd have thunk it

    Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • .
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
  • 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 accumulator

    Noun

    (wikipedia thunk) (en noun)
  • (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)
  • 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.
    See also
    * closure English onomatopoeias