What's the difference between bunker and dunker?

Bunker


Definition:

  • (n.) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
  • (n.) A large bin or similar receptacle; as, a coal bunker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Writing in his Daily Telegraph column , Johnson said most Britons wanted “someone to come along with a bunker buster” and kill the man, reported to be British, “as fast as possible”.
  • (2) While each is moving forward to develop strategies and programs suited to its circumstances, all eschew the bunker mentality that comes to mind in tough times.
  • (3) In his search for a new economic model for the paper that would take it into a secure digital future, Thompson has been experimenting with innovations that appear to stray from his corporate bunker on the 16th floor of the Times building into the editorial realm.
  • (4) One newspaper declared that Mohamed had "made a mockery" of the government's claim to protect the public, while another offered a reward for information leading to his capture: "£25k to Find the Burka Bunker" .
  • (5) Short of holding parliament in a bunker, there are limits to what more can or should sensibly be done.
  • (6) Bunker-buster bomb reports may mark new stage in Russia's Syrian assault Read more Medics took shelter in the hospital basement during the mid-morning attack, sending calls for aid as they hid until government planes had retreated.
  • (7) The first time I saw the building - a stark, unapologetically angular silver bunker throwing back the heat of a rather desolate part of Berlin - I was content to register its disturbance without question, submitting to its strategies of oppression and disorientation as a child would.
  • (8) The Nato secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said 300 sorties since Saturday had destroyed 49 tanks, nine armoured personnel carriers, three anti-aircraft guns and four large ammunition bunkers.
  • (9) His organisation has been co-operating with WikiLeaks since August and has lent two of its 20 servers, which are located in a former nuclear bunker in Stockholm, to WikiLeaks, he said.
  • (10) In an interview with the Financial Times this morning, Bradshaw – who replaced Andy Burnham in a cabinet reshuffle last month – said the BBC should "show some leadership" on the issue of sharing the licence fee with other broadcasters, rather than "feel that the bunker is the place that they want to be in".
  • (11) In one he said he felt he couldn’t see the band again “even if they offered me a private concert in the presidential bunker”.
  • (12) At least there's now external scrutiny, even if it comes at the risk of its grim commentary exacerbating the bunker mentality of those trying to make it work.
  • (13) We stand to attention for the Soviet anthem and hoisting of the red flag, and then down we go, into the freezing-cold bunker.
  • (14) Bradshaw told the FT that a consultation period lasting until early September was "an opportunity for the leadership of the BBC to show some leadership rather than feel that the bunker is the place they want to be in".
  • (15) Houghton, who is expected to reiterate the military's misgivings about entering the conflict, is expected to tell ministers the UK could assist US forces with cruise missile strikes launched from submarines, warships and aircraft against targets such as command and control bunkers.
  • (16) Bunker-busting is a dangerous business, but with average monthly incomes in Albania about £200, the lucrative explosions are unlikely to abate soon.
  • (17) These data are interpreted to suggest that feeding a mixture of HMC, ground and stored in a bunker or silo bag, with DRGS will result in a 3.2% associative effect.
  • (18) He's probably still blinking in the light following his escape from the BBC Sport Banter Bunker, a lot of things are likely to seem strange to him at the moment.
  • (19) NHS faces 'humanitarian crisis' as demand rises, British Red Cross warns Read more As pressures grow for NHS trusts to do what they can to minimise their deficits in the coming financial year, they have bunkered down into emergency mode.
  • (20) "The arms trade in the delta is dominated by Ukrainian and Russian dealers who swap automatic weapons for illegal bunkered oil.

Dunker


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Presence of 17 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17 beta-HSD) in testes and ovaries of the common mussels--Patinopecten yessoensis (Jay) and Crenomytilus grayanus (Dunker) has been demonstrated histochemically.
  • (2) It's "a little dunker" says legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, one that lands just a touch beyond the stretched out glove hand of Pete Kozma who wandered into the outfield - that's a base hit for the crippled Ramirez, and that's enough to raise glasses around Dodger Stadium right now.
  • (3) The variables were: restricted versus free manipulation, and easy versus difficult arrangements of a Dunker-type candle problem.
  • (4) The following week (20-27 August), there'll be 1950s-style keep fit classes on the beach (8am, Mon-Fri) as part of the Dippers and Dunkers Festival of New Variety .

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