What's the difference between bund and bunk?

Bund


Definition:

  • (n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
  • (n.) An embankment against inundation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Sue Anne Tay In 2008, a group of Shanghai urban planning academics and advisers, led by the respected preservationist Professor Ruan Yisan (responsible for championing the Bund restoration), proposed to local authorities to preserve 111 historically significant shikumen neighbourhoods.
  • (2) He expects total outflows of about €800m, including conversions into German bunds [bonds] and other such things."
  • (3) The propose analysed the main percentages be bunded in Literature.
  • (4) But the deal's deliberate opaqueness, mixed with uncertainly over how long it would take for the money to be paid out, saw spreads soar again this week, with the difference in yields between Greek and benchmark German 10-year bunds increasing to about 4.15% yesterday.
  • (5) 9.04pm BST 60 min: There's plenty of tiki taka on display, but it's all coming from Bayern, who triangluate beautifully down the right, their supporters indulging in some loud bundes¡olé!
  • (6) Money also flowed into German government debt, a classic safe haven, driving down the yield on bunds.
  • (7) This narrowed the spread between 10-year gilts and Bunds - a barometer of investor sentiment - to 92 basis points from 96 basis points yesterday.
  • (8) Behind us was the Bund, the waterfront of aristocratic Italian Renaissance and art deco buildings that sprang up at the start of the 20th century, the last commercial frenzy in the city.
  • (9) The yield on German 10-year bunds fell to a new low of 0.718% as investors abandoned shares for the relative safety of government bonds.
  • (10) "With any luck we will start to see those Bund spreads coming down over the next few months and that should improve prospects for growth," she said.
  • (11) It estimates that if yields could fall back relative to German government bonds - also know as Bunds - to a spread last seen in January it would improve Greece's large deficit by 0.9% of GDP and also significantly boost growth.
  • (12) 12 Shortly you will come to a path running along the Bund on your right.
  • (13) Government costs of borrowing : German government Bunds rally - making it cheaper for Germany to borrow as investors seek a safe haven.
  • (14) On Monday, as the euro fell on the foreign exchanges, the Greek stock market plunged and investors piled into the safe haven of German bunds, it no longer seems quite so far-fetched.
  • (15) Britain's total personal, corporate and government debt is substantially worse than Italy's, but the bond markets now freakishly rate London a safe haven, with the interest rate on gilts falling to 2.1%, just a smidgen over German bunds.
  • (16) More here : German Oct trade surplus narrows, gives euro zone cheer 8.15am GMT Chinese trade surplus hits five-year high A tourist with a protective mask watches the buildings at the Bund under heavy haze in Shanghai, China, this morning.
  • (17) At 9am there were a few hundred students near the Bund, Shanghai's river-front, several thousand more in People's Square and hundreds more here and there throughout the downtown area.
  • (18) Spain's main Ibex 35 stock index rallied on the report, up 1.6% by lunchtime, while the spread between Spanish government bonds and their equivalent German Bunds narrowed.
  • (19) The world has been sorely disappointed," said Hubert Weiger, head of Germany's association for environment and nature protection, Bund.
  • (20) • US 10-year Treasury yield: 2.88%, down from 2.97% overnight • UK 10-year gilt yield : 2.93%, down from 3% overnight • German 10-year bund yield : 1.94%, down from 2.04% overnight Updated at 2.02pm BST 1.55pm BST Economics professor Nouriel Roubini insists today's jobs data means the US Fed should not slow its stimulus programme yet: Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) Q2 growth is 1.9% ex inv.

Bunk


Definition:

  • (n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  • (n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
  • (n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  • (v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
  • (2) A studio for three (which includes a set of bunk beds) during the same period, in Praia apartments, 9km from the Maracanã, is available for £7,819.
  • (3) Soldiers also spoke of how positive the experience had been – even if they had lost out on a bunk.
  • (4) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
  • (5) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
  • (6) This was partly compensated for by a higher intake of bunk feedstuffs.
  • (7) He slept in a bunk bed in his parents’ home until, aged 24, he left to get married to another solicitor, Saadiya Ahmed.
  • (8) She did not hesitate to treat Hefner's emancipation claims as bunk.
  • (9) The two groups of cows were housed in adjoining lots and fed identical rations from opposite sides of a feed bunk which provided .9 m linear feeding space per cow.
  • (10) In the barrack, the bunks were three on top of each other.
  • (11) Rationing of individual concentrates was according to parity, milk yield, milk yield potential, BW changes, and bunk feed-stuffs.
  • (12) Injuries occurred during sleep (19 children [29%]), getting in or out of the bunk bed (13 children [20%]), or playing in or near the beds (28 children [43%]).
  • (13) The Tories’ Corbyn attack video is absurd, paranoid and nasty – and will work | Jonathan Jones Read more Needless to say, both depictions are bunk.
  • (14) A control group of children who use bunk beds but who came to the emergency department for another reason were also interviewed.
  • (15) The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them.
  • (16) Among women with a duration of pregnancy between 37 and 42 gestational weeks procentual frequency, confidence intervals of O. Bunke, pounts of separability and areas of unsharpners were analysed.
  • (17) Numerous flights out of Wellington, Auckland and regional North Island centres have also been delayed or diverted due to the conditions, with passengers bunking down in the airport after being unable to find accommodation in the city.
  • (18) Many of them had to sleep on the floor to give holidaymakers their bunks.
  • (19) David Cameron shared a military bunk bed with former England player Michael Owen on their flight out to Afghanistan to promote a new football partnership aimed at boosting national spirit in the war-torn country.
  • (20) She conceded it would, observing that if visitors had the stamina to walk up the cursus or the avenue from the east, there would be nothing stopping them from bunking in without paying.