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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
intj
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A delayed computation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: functional programming
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
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Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
past participle of think
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, humorous, nonstandard, participle, past
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verb
To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To delay (a computation).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: functional programming
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
To execute (code) by means of a thunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
a dull hollow sound
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sound
History
Onomatopoeic.
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”).
By analogy with past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk and sunk.
