Thud vs Thunk - What's the difference?
thud | thunk |
The sound of a dull impact.
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Republic jet ground attack fighter.
To make the sound of a dull impact.
(humorous, nonstandard)
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to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
(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)
As nouns the difference between thud and thunk
is that thud is the sound of a dull impact while thunk is a delayed computation.As verbs the difference between thud and thunk
is that thud is to make the sound of a dull impact 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.thud
English
Noun
(en noun)- These were but the thoughts of a second, but the voices were nearer, and I heard a dull thud far up the passage, and knew that a man had jumped down from the churchyard into the hole.
Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* flump, plunkCoordinate terms
* clang, clash, crash English onomatopoeias ----thunk
English
Etymology 1
By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk' and ' sunkVerb
(head)- Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
Derived terms
* who'd have thunk itEtymology 2
OnomatopoeicVerb
(en verb)- 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 accumulatorNoun
(wikipedia thunk) (en noun)- 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.