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Thought vs Thunk - What's the difference?

thought | thunk |

As nouns the difference between thought and thunk

is that thought is form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking while thunk is a delayed computation.

As verbs the difference between thought and thunk

is that thought is past tense of think while 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.

thought

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Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

(wikipedia thought) (en noun)
  • Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts , and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts .}}
  • (uncountable) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
  • * (Paul Fix)
    • The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
  • A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).

    • Derived terms

    * afterthought * collect one's thoughts * gather one's thoughts * food for thought * on second thoughts * perish the thought * thoughtful * thought leader * thoughtless * thought shower * thoughtlet

    Verb

    (head)
  • (think)
    • 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.
    Related terms
    * thunking
    See also
    * closure English onomatopoeias