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thunk

/θʌŋk/

Translations

thunknoun

thunks

/θʌŋk/

глухой стук

I heard a thunk as the book fell off the shelf.

Я услышал глухой стук, когда книга упала с полки.

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Synonyms

thunkverb

thunked

Past Simple

thunked

Past Participle

thunking

Gerund

/θʌŋk/

стукнуть

He thunk the door with his fist.

Он стукнул дверь кулаком.

грохотать

The metal pipes thunk loudly when they fall.

Металлические трубы грохочут громко, когда падают.

Additional translations

Synonyms

think (colloquial equivalent: reckon, suppose, figure, believe)

thunkinterjection

Onomatopoeic representation of a dull, heavy impact.

Synonyms

Definitions

thunknoun

A dull, hollow sound, often associated with something heavy hitting a surface.

The book fell off the shelf with a loud thunk.

Computing: a piece of code or a parameterless function that delays a computation until its result is needed.

The middleware expects each action creator to return either an object or a thunk.

thunkverb

To make a dull, hollow sound.

The book fell off the shelf and thunked onto the floor.

To strike or hit something with a dull sound.

He thunked the ball against the wall with a powerful throw.

Computing: to wrap code or a parameter in a thunk so that its execution is deferred.

The compiler thunks the call so the argument is evaluated lazily.

thunkinterjection

Used to represent a dull, heavy sound, especially one made by a solid object hitting another.

"Thunk!" went the coconut as it struck the ground.