What's the difference between funk and panic?

Funk


Definition:

  • (n.) An offensive smell; a stench.
  • (v. t.) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
  • (v. i.) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
  • (v. i.) To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice.
  • (n.) Alt. of Funking

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.

Panic


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
  • (a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
  • (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
  • (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
  • (2) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (3) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (4) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (5) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
  • (6) The occurrence of secondary MDE was related to the length of time subjects were ill with panic disorder.
  • (7) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
  • (8) Patients with temporal lobe abnormalities were significantly younger at the onset of panic disorder and had more panic attacks compared with patients with normal MRI scans (p less than .05).
  • (9) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (10) The incidence of cardiac perceptions was about the same in both groups, but only subjects with panic attacks reported anxiety associated with such perceptions.
  • (11) Future work on biochemical causes of, and pharmacological treatments for panic attacks should take account of such factors.
  • (12) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (13) Unresolved etiological issues requiring clarification in the near future include the following: (1) Are stressful events important in the development of panic, or are they more incidentally related?
  • (14) The results provide support for cognitive mediation in the "panic" component of spontaneous panic attacks.
  • (15) Most panics surged out of a pre-existing plateau of tonic anxiety which lasted most of the day.
  • (16) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
  • (17) Meantime, while we wouldn't want to you panic, Owen Gibson says vuvuzelas may be on their way to the Premier League .
  • (18) Some were less fortunate, but panic has given way to a Balkan pride and resilience.
  • (19) The findings are discussed in relation to conditions such as somatisation disorder, the syndrome of chronic unexplained pain, and panic disorder.
  • (20) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.