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thunking

/ˈθʌŋkɪŋ/

thunkingnoun

thunkings

Translations

глухой стук

The thunking of the old engine was a familiar sound.

Глухой стук старого двигателя был знакомым звуком.

Definitions

The act or process of producing a dull, heavy sound, such as a thud.

The sudden thunking of the heavy book on the floor startled everyone in the library.

(computing) The automatic generation or use of a thunk to delay computation or bridge different execution contexts.

Thunking allows 32-bit applications to call legacy 16-bit Windows routines without manual intervention.

thunkinggerund / present participle

/ˈθʌŋkɪŋ/

Used attributively to describe something that is producing or characterized by a dull, heavy sound.

Definitions

Producing or characterized by a dull, heavy sound.

The thunking machinery echoed through the factory halls.

thunkverb

thunking

Gerund

thunked

Past Simple

thunked

Past Participle

thunking

Gerund

/θʌŋk/

Translations

грохотать

The metal pipes thunk loudly when they fall.

Металлические трубы грохочут громко, когда падают.

стукнуть

He thunk the door with his fist.

Он стукнул дверь кулаком.

Additional translations

булькнуть

брякнуть

Definitions

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.

Synonyms

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

thunknoun

Definitions

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.

thunkinterjection

Definitions

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.