Thunk

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dull, hollow sound: the thunk of a metal pipe striking a tree.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a dull, hollow sound: "Her hard shoes thunk on the stairsā€ ( Carolyn Chute).
  • v. Nonstandard A past tense and a past participle of think.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. 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.
  • v. to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
  • n. a delayed computation
  • n. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  • n. 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.
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  • n. a dull hollow sound
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    thinking    thinks    thought   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    weighing    advisement    deliberation    center    concentrate    centre    focus    pore    rivet    consider   
    Variant
    thought   
    Hyponym
    plan    aim    propose    be after    purport    purpose    design    recognise    brush up    recognize   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    expect    suppose    imagine    muse    cogitate    guess    meditate    believe    contemplate    ponder   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chink    Fink    Inc    Inc.    bink    blink    brink    chink    cinque    clink   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    idea    thought    notion    prospect    possibility    consciousness    habit    intelligence    sight    attitude