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thunk::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | sound |
the basketball made a thunk as it hit the rim.
Examples of thunk
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Thunk goes the kitchen door as our small plates are ferried into the restaurant.
From the guardian.co.uk
A solid thunk reverberated over the field, raising a cry of joy from the archer.
From the theatlantic.com
They whack into tar strips or rumpled surfaces in what amounts to a thunk-a-thon.
From the post-gazette.com
Six years of spiraling downward landed at the bottom of the Hole with a thunk.
From the post-gazette.com
Who'da thunk my first vacation alone with my three-year-old son could be like this?
From the guardian.co.uk
Teddy listened for the dolorous thunk it made, then the tumbling fall down the steps.
From the nytimes.com
But then who'd ever thunk George W. Bush would warm a seat there for eight long years?
From the infowars.com
Who'd'a thunk there'd be a public interest in statements that aren't true?
From the guardian.co.uk
Anyone who uses a non-word like thunk is definitely not a book or anything else reader.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A dull hollow sound; "the basketball made a thunk as it hit the rim"
- The word thunk has at least three related meanings in computing science. A "thunk" may be: * a piece of code to perform a delayed computation (similar to a closure) * a feature of some virtual function table implementations (similar to a wrapper function)n* a mapping of machine data from one ...
- A delayed computation; In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments; 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 ...
- Code that is used to convert calls to one interface into calls to another.
- A small piece of machine code which bridges the boundary between one calling convention and another. Used to permit libraries written in languages other than Smalltalk to call into Dolphin.
