What's the difference between hud and thud?

Hud


Definition:

  • (n.) A huck or hull, as of a nut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The simulated HUD speedometer produced generally superior performance on the experimental tasks; most important, it enabled subjects to respond significantly more quickly to the salient cues.
  • (2) In the first experiment, words from two "hood"-"hud" continua were synthesized with different F0.
  • (3) This article examines the role of formal support services in the lives of elderly residents of HUD-subsidized buildings.
  • (4) A hordeivirus isolated from horsemint (Mentha longifolia Huds.)
  • (5) In the first experiment, Formants 3-5 were manipulated in both a "hid"-"head" continuum (in which F2 and F3 are within 3 Bark of each other) and a "hood"-"HUD" continuum (in which F2 and F3 are not within 3 Bark of each other).
  • (6) For example, doing the 3DS port of Retro City Rampage, I explored potential touch screen additions to the existing game by prototyping new aiming methods, shooting methods, HUD features and so forth.
  • (7) Advanced Warfare bears some familial resemblance: there is almost no HUD on screen.
  • (8) The time elapsed between a HUD signal and the simple response to the HDD was approximately 1600 ms.
  • (9) No one would tell an architect they can’t have a view on HUD [the Department of Housing and Urban Development].
  • (10) Experiment 3 involved the presentation of vowels from the "hood"-"hud" continuum in two different intonational contexts which were judged to have been produced by different speakers, even though the F0 of the test word was identical in the two contexts.
  • (11) Implications for the effects of HUDs on automobile safety are discussed.
  • (12) In the second experiment, F3 alone was manipulated in a "hood"-"HUD" continuum.
  • (13) In the moonscape of the Bab Hud neighbourhood, on the frontline by the Homs Citadel, a commander signed himself Issam Abu al-Mout – a nom de guerre that is a chilling reference to a man boasting of facing death.
  • (14) Four multiple-channel cochlear implant patients were tested with synthesized versions of the words "hid, head, had, hud, hod, hood" containing 1, 2, or 3 formants, and with a natural 2-formant version of the same words.
  • (15) The ratio of ED50 to HUD, the single usual dose for human cancer chemotherapy, were smallest for doxorubicin (2.23), cyclophosphamide (2.59) and CDDP (5.19).
  • (16) From the explantats of the fruitbody of Naematoloma fasciculare (Huds ex Fr.)
  • (17) A neuronal antigen (HuD) recognized by the sera of patients with antibody-associated paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis has been isolated by screening a lambda cerebellar expression library.
  • (18) This study compared the effects of simulated head-up display (HUD) and dashboard-mounted digital speedometers on key perceptual driving tasks in a simulated driving environment.
  • (19) The HuD protein shows a remarkable homology to the Drosophila proteins Elav and Sex-lethal and is likely to play a role in neuron-specific RNA processing.
  • (20) Concentrations of 0.4 ppm in manufactured homes as targeted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), may not be adequate to protect occupants from discomfort and from acute effects of HCHO exposure.

Thud


Definition:

  • (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
  • (2) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
  • (3) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
  • (4) The ball thudded off the woodwork and Arsenal rocked on their heels.
  • (5) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
  • (6) A wild lunge fortunately didn’t fully connect with the Barcelona forward – had it done so he could have been seriously injured – but it still sent him tumbling into the air before thudding into the Bernabéu turf.
  • (7) Martin drops the bullet in a plastic pan with a hollow thud.
  • (8) In the 1970s, David Rosenhan and seven other persons were hospitalized in twelve different psychiatric hospitals, pretending having heard voices uttering such words as void, hollow, thud.
  • (9) His neck muscles were tensed, the ball thudded off his forehead and English football’s man-of-the-moment had another extraordinary story in an increasingly bulging file.
  • (10) There's an almighty thud as a piece of rock hits the coffin, everyone gasps and one of them says: "Bloody 'ell, Barry!
  • (11) The guns thudded continuously and there was a new rattling sound.
  • (12) The event is ostensibly to promote tourism, but it’s also thudding domestic propaganda.
  • (13) And then shortly thereafter you could hear the planes overhead and you could feel the bombs thudding, thudding, thudding.
  • (14) They had barely threatened before Carroll attacked Aaron Cresswell’s cross from the left brilliantly, thudding a header low to David Ospina’s left, and the roof nearly flew off Upton Park when the striker equalised in stoppage time.
  • (15) Flying over the same spot again a few days later, Commander Jason Tieman, a reservist in the National Coastguard, explains over the thudding din of the 19-seater Sikorsky helicopter that the big problem was spotting the oil: "It's very hard to see from the air.
  • (16) The first half was absorbing without being eventful, but after 45 minutes of the usual derby thud and blunder two things were evident.
  • (17) When he snapped Groves’ neck back with a thudding overhand right early in the ninth, it appeared the Londoner was in trouble.
  • (18) Schmeichel had produced two fine saves to deny Danny Welbeck after he had replaced Rooney on the hour and England can also look back on the chance, set up by the overlapping Ashley Cole, that Sterling thudded against a post during one of their few moves of real incision in the first half.
  • (19) - a thudding, sample-filled track about the malign influence of popular culture on black communities, as a defining influence.
  • (20) *THUD* Updated at 10.26pm GMT 10.14pm GMT It’s all over until next year!

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