Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dull, hollow sound.
- intransitive verb To make a dull, hollow sound.
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- verb humorous, nonstandard Past participle of
think - interjection 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.
- verb to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
- noun computing a delayed computation
- noun computing In the
Scheme programming language, afunction orprocedure taking no arguments. - noun computing a
mapping of machinedata from onesystem -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-bitoperating system .
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- noun a dull hollow sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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October 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm well, if the farghing latch won’t take……….ya gotta thunk it…..thunk it good echos of Devo waft through the ether
your - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Tas heard a loud "thunk," and light streamed into the tunnel ahead.
Stalling 2010
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With a soft "thunk," the sailor's hatchet chopped through the rope that linked the barge to the ship.
Stalling 2010
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Most of my relatives there have a mango tree and you can be woken up at night by a big "thunk" because mangos fall from the trees onto the rooftops.
Recipes for Mango and Feta Salad & Pan-Fried Scallops with Mango Salsa (Μάνγκο και Φέτα Σαλάτα & Χτένια με Μάνγκο Σάλτσα) Laurie Constantino 2008
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It's too bad the last one went "thunk"...the cake is rather charming.
How Do You Spell Success? Jen 2009
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Nothing will make a driver stop faster than a resounding 'thunk' reverberating inside their aluminum can.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: The Increasing Dignity of Commuting by Bicycle BikeSnobNYC 2009
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So after doing a CPS transform and then trampolining it by returning a lambda wrapped "thunk", my interpreter *should have* handled an infinite tail recursive call *without* a stack overflow exception.
Archive 2008-07-01 Ravi 2008
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So after doing a CPS transform and then trampolining it by returning a lambda wrapped "thunk", my interpreter *should have* handled an infinite tail recursive call *without* a stack overflow exception.
The JVM and Tail Recursion Ravi 2008
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I heard this "thunk", and as I was starting to get up to see what it was, there was this "crash".
Dogs...You Gotta Love 'Em! Seeking Solace 2006
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The veneers are prone to peeling and cracking, the cabinet door hinges tend to loosen and the doors bang noisily instead of shutting with a satisfying 'thunk'.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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It’s also common to see getters being used with Promises, since Promises are known to not be reusable computations, so that wrapping a Promise constructor in a getter (also known as “factory” or “thunk”) makes it reusable. SETTERS
milosrdenstvi commented on the word thunk
Another humourously false irregular past participle (see also shat and brung), formed no doubt by analogy to sink - sunk, stink - stunk and drink - drunk. The simple past form thank does not exist, likely because of its use a separate word and the prevalence of thought as past tense even when this spurious participle is used. An argument could be made for a similarly spurious formation in plink - plunk. I could possibly attest to experience of that usage; however, both of those words are onomatopoeic enough that grammatical change between them seems subsidiary (as also in clink - clunk). No ablaut occurs for wink or link (or fink or dink for that matter, but they are a good deal more dialectical).
December 18, 2010