What's the difference between bunk and punk?

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.

Punk


Definition:

  • (n.) Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.
  • (n.) A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.
  • (n.) An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.
  • (n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (2) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
  • (3) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (4) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
  • (5) The following week I bought the EP, expecting more of the same anarchic techno-punk.
  • (6) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
  • (7) T-shirts were rush-printed overnight, showing his bald, burly head above the logo: "Hi, I'm Joe Plumber and Obama is a punk."
  • (8) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
  • (9) Daft Punk will make their first televised performance since 2008 , playing with artists including Stevie Wonder and Get Lucky collaborators Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
  • (10) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
  • (11) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
  • (12) Then a punk rock club called the Echo hooked up with us.
  • (13) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
  • (14) Nile says: “The robots had an amazing vision!” Nile Rodgers accepts Daft Punk's International Group Award.
  • (15) A storm of criticism broke in Russia following the harsh two-year prison sentences given to three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot for protesting against the government in a Moscow cathedral.
  • (16) One of the most punk-rock things they ever did was dressing Chevy Chase up for his Ford impression: They didn’t do a damn thing.
  • (17) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
  • (18) Track listing: What Goes Boom Greens and Blues Indie Cindy Bagboy Magdalena 318 Silver Snail Blue Eyed Hexe Ring the Bell Another Toe in the Ocean Andro Queen Snakes Jaime Bravo Track listing for Live in the USA (feat Lenchantin on bass): Bone Machine Hey Ana Magdalena 318 Snakes Indie Cindy I’ve Been Tired Head On The Sad Punk Distance Equals Rate Times Time Something Against You Isla de Encanta Planet of Sound Reading this on mobile?
  • (19) It was famous for being a big party house for local punks,” Clement says.
  • (20) Punks, poets, painters, dropouts, drug fiends, drag queens - all have been welcome at the Chelsea hotel.