thunk.
Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
Meaning & usage
Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic.
To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
I was thunked on the head by his stick.
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic.
A delayed computation.
In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.
Where this word comes from
Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”).
To delay (a computation).
To execute (code) by means of a thunk.
Where this word comes from
Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”).
past participle of think
Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.
Where this word comes from
By analogy with past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk and sunk.
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