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Whack vs Thrash - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between whack and thrash

is that whack is to kill, bump off while thrash is a particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.

As nouns the difference between whack and thrash

is that whack is a blow, impact or slap while thrash is a beat or blow; the sound of beating.

As verbs the difference between whack and thrash

is that whack is to hit, slap or strike while thrash is to beat mercilessly.

whack

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A blow, impact or slap.
  • A share or portion.
  • * 1951 , , Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922 ,
  • For one thing I had a splendid supper when I got on board—a whack of cold, lean beef and pighells, bread, butter ad lib. , tea, and plenty of good bread.
  • An attempt.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit, slap or strike.
  • * G. W. Cable
  • Rodsmen were whacking their way through willow brakes.
  • (slang) To kill, bump off.
  • To share or parcel out.
  • (label) To beat convincingly; to thrash.
  • * 2012 , Ryan Pyette, Majors, Panthers play mind games, The London Free Press:
  • The fidgety Majors were whacked 9-1 by the Kitchener Panthers at Couch and now trail their rivals 2-0 in an increasingly uncomfortable best-of-seven Intercounty Baseball League first-round series.
  • To surpass; to better.
  • * 2012 , Steve Cullen, Total Flyfisher:
  • Recently I was over in Ireland, I love the place, proper fishing, can't whack it!

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * out of whack * whack off * whack the illy * whacky English onomatopoeias

    thrash

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To beat mercilessly.
  • To defeat utterly.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 8 , author=Paul Fletcher , title=Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth. }}
  • To thresh.
  • To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
  • * '', 1987, ''John Dryden: The Major Works , Oxford University Press, page 364,
  • I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, / Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times.
  • (software) To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
  • (computing) In computer architecture, to cause poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
  • Noun

    (-)
  • A beat or blow; the sound of beating.
  • * 1918 , ,
  • Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined. His humor was glow, like iron at dull heat; his blow was elementary, like the thrash of a whale.
  • * 1934 May, ,
  • As he reeled on wide-braced legs, sobbing for breath, the jungle and the moon swimming bloodily to his sight, the thrash of bat-wings was loud in his ears.
  • (music) A particularly aggressive and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, and alternate picking.
  • Synonyms

    * (music) thrash metal

    References

    * (computing, software) P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.