What's the difference between funding and funking?
Funding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fund
(a.) Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.
(a.) Investing in the public funds.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(3) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(4) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(5) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(6) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(7) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
(8) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(9) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(10) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(11) Similarly, I would like to see fully funded and resourced public services.
(12) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
(13) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(14) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(15) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
(16) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(17) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
(18) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(19) We know that from the rapid take up of crowd funded renewables investors are actively looking for a more secure option.
(20) "If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws which require future WHO funding to be provided only if the organisation accepts that all reports must be supported by the preponderance of science."
Funking
Definition:
(n.) A shrinking back through fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The way they look, like extras from a remake of Men in Black filmed around FWD>> , has added to the growing excitement that they are going to deliver the most fantastical future-funk of the century.
(2) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
(3) White guys working with a black guy, playing funk!’ We play what we play cos that’s what we like, and we work with George because he’s great.
(4) The track I’d play at my auntie’s wedding Thelma Houston: You Used To Hold Me So Tight Facebook Twitter Pinterest Thelma’s got the funk!
(5) It's a gently defiant position to be taking, the band conscious that what they're doing marks a sea change from the no wave and punk-funk tendencies that dominated US indie music throughout the noughties.
(6) He liked the band, and we gave him $10,000, which was probably a big influence.” Their second (far more unlikely) collaboration with P-Funk main man Clinton was such a success that the mere mention of his name sends the band into a love-glow of awe.
(7) She dared not tell Clifford she was pregnant, for she was in a Funk.
(8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(9) The courts will have to decide on the level of sentences, but that penalty is in principle absolutely possible for sexual offences,” he told the Funke newspaper group.
(10) London's size is stifling; it's too sprawling a metropolis to regularly agree to go funk-ass crazy over a particular band en masse.
(11) Breaking the record for the most streamed track in a single week, Uptown Funk has been listened to nearly 2.34m times in the past seven days, overtaking Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud, which notched up 1.72m streams in a single week in November.
(12) Emerging from Washington DC in the 1970s and led by Chuck "godfather of go-go" Brown, go-go was a relation of funk music but one that was rarely cut to vinyl.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: GUARDIAN Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars: Uptown Funk Ukip could easily crowbar this into its campaign, albeit with the line “Julio – get the stretch!” altered to include a name more in keeping with the party’s ideologies.
(14) Video of the year and best collaboration: Taylor Swift feat Kendrick Lamar – Bad Blood Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best female video and best pop video: Taylor Swift - Blank Space Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best male video: Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best hip-hop video: Nicki Minaj – Anaconda Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best rock video: Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artist to watch: Trap Queen – Fetty Wap Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best direction: Kendrick Lamar – Alright Facebook Twitter Pinterest Best video with a social message: Big Sean feat Kayne West and John Legend – One Man Can Change The World Facebook Twitter Pinterest
(15) She was, for instance, the translator of Cornelia Funke's Inkheart series , a German young adult fantasy trilogy which reached number two in the New York Times bestseller list.
(16) "These are performances by one of the greatest funk-rock bands ever," wrote Ben Beaumont-Thomas in the Guardian .
(17) There's a You Got The Look with power chords chiselled out of funk licks; a How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore performed solo at the piano with all of its devastating naivety.
(18) It's all over Blow's delicious throwback funk and the atmospheric thump of the Crazy In Love sequel, Drunk In Love, which features Jay Z seemingly ignoring the pair's current vegan diet as he raps about how he likes Beyoncé's breasts for breakfast.
(19) Arguably, more than anything, you can detect in MYD's almost exhaustingly frenetic music the influence of early-80s Bristol and the skronking-sax-fuelled manic funk-pop of Neneh Cherry 's alma mater, Rip Rig and Panic.
(20) More pop-Prince than dark magus funk, it feels more like the start of a conversation than a definitive statement, but it’s a fascinating fusion of styles.