What's the difference between hulk and hunk?

Hulk


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.
  • (n.) A heavy ship of clumsy build.
  • (n.) Anything bulky or unwieldly.
  • (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
  • (2) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
  • (3) Updated at 8.23pm BST 8.04pm BST Brazil v Germany - line-ups ... Brazil: 12-Julio Cesar; 6-Marcelo, 23-Maicon, 13-Dante, 4-David Luiz; 17-Luiz Gustavo, 5-Fernandinho, 20-Bernard, 11-Oscar, 7-Hulk; 9-Fred Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm; 20-Jerome Boateng; 5-Mats Hummels; 4-Benedikt Hoewedes; 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger; 6-Sami Khedira; 18-Toni Kroos; 8-Mesut Ozil; 13-Thomas Mueller, 11-Miroslav Klose Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Meet Marco Rodriguez, tonight's referee.
  • (4) It takes the pragmatism to abort a character that isn't working: Mark Ruffalo was the third attempt at getting The Hulk right.
  • (5) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
  • (6) Marvel boss Kevin Feige said in 2012 that the comic books Planet Hulk and World War Hulk were both possible sources for new solo Hulk storylines, but admitted that each was problematic.
  • (7) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
  • (8) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
  • (9) Or, indeed, the storm of locusts that would have been sent Howard Webb’s way bearing in mind the disallowed Hulk goal and his waving away of a first-half penalty.
  • (10) A minute earlier Hulk was racing through 30 yards out and attempted to toe poke it high up and over Casillas who was haring out to sweep up but couldn't direct it so it ended up going more vertically than horizontally.
  • (11) Lyon began to dominate but Hulk scored a stunning goal in the 56th minute to put the hosts back in front.
  • (12) The likes of Alex Teixeira, Jackson Martínez and Ramires have already moved to Super League clubs, while the Zenit St Petersburg striker Hulk is also reportedly on the verge of a big-money deal to join Shanghai SIPG – a club managed by another former England manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson.
  • (13) These hulking monuments to American consumer culture make up the subject of Lawless' book Black Friday .
  • (14) Germany clear, the ball comes back to David Luiz and he surges forward before threading the ball up the inside left towards Hulk again.
  • (15) The overall impression is of an unplanned free-for-all, a steroidal frenzy of building tall, with little attention to individual design quality, or the cumulative effect that these scattered hulks might have on the city.
  • (16) And after a quick chat, Webb disallows the goal and books Hulk for handball.
  • (17) Regardless of the legality of what Gawker did when deciding to post a tape of Hulk Hogan sleeping with his former best friend’s then-wife, it’s really tough to stand up for the first amendment when the hill you’re going to die on is made of questionable newsworthiness and dick jokes.
  • (18) The latter tactic can work (Ubisoft, Rockstar), but it can also mean that games lose any sort of identity as great hulking middle management layers take a deathly grip on creative decisions.
  • (19) Ten minutes into the second half, Marcelo lifted a long, diagonal pass over the Chile defence and Hulk controlled the ball at the corner of his chest and shoulder, then bundled it into the goal.
  • (20) She understands that news media have certain leeway in a presidential campaign, but outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency.” Harder’s not-quite-four-year-old Beverly Hills firm, Harder Mirell & Abrams LLP, is perhaps best known for representing Hulk Hogan in the lawsuit that eventually bankrupted Gawker Media , which was sold at auction to media company Univision earlier in August.

Hunk


Definition:

  • (n.) A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an event prompted by the rule that what goes up must come down, the defunct satellite will plummet through the atmosphere, burn and break apart, and scatter hunks of steel, aluminium and titanium over a distance of hundreds of miles.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho: Manchester United ‘the perfect club’ for Paul Pogba – video Pogba, in fairness, is more than just a glamour signing who shows that United, and the Premier League, are wrestling some pulling power back from European rivals, notably Spain’s swoonsome hunks.
  • (3) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
  • (4) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
  • (5) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
  • (6) ululates one of the series' many perturbed adolescent hunks.
  • (7) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
  • (8) Troubled by his sexuality, Philip took hunks of time out from Harvard and started travelling to Europe as a means of escape.
  • (9) And so a hunk of Cheddar becomes superior to Nevermind : a universal medium of communication; or at least, for foodists, a universal solvent of the intellect.
  • (10) I think that 'hunk' of Aberdeen Angus is going to be in quite a foul mood now that his prediction of a Russia v Germany final is wheezing and coughing up bloody phlegm," suggests Richard Whittall.
  • (11) Photograph: AP If Han’s not still flying the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, I want my money back already.
  • (12) 5) The Rock may be a great big burning hunk of MAN, but he's not Oscar Wilde Or rather, whoever wrote his lame-o opening speech wasn't.
  • (13) This hunk of steel and paint is worth much more than the price tag.” The cyclist, who also buys and sells bikes as a hobby, first started returning snatched bikes to their owners in spring 2015 when he stumbled on a stolen bicycle on Craigslist.
  • (14) The result was a hunk of plastic with the circumference of a beer mat, heated to 130C, to which the labels were attached, while 50 tonnes of hydraulic pressure squashed and spread it into a disc.
  • (15) By the time we noticed our peeling skin, another hunk of our privacy is long gone."
  • (16) Only molgG2a antibodies were equally potent with rtNK and huNK.
  • (17) And sometimes you just want cows falling apart and bewildered hunks in utility slacks shouting about how we'd best stick together otherwise "We'll all be going… TO HELL!"
  • (18) I suspect the paintings Haslam is thinking of are really 17th-century Dutch still-life pictures with their hearty north European hunks of high- fat cheese, frothing ale glasses and bulging pies.
  • (19) Little seems to have changed at Simpson's in the Strand since the days when Alfred Hitchcock dined here: the wood panelling, the chandeliers, the white-robed chefs carving hunks of meat on silver trolleys.
  • (20) There are swirls of purees and jus but at its centre is a hunk of animal; one of the most bloody and intensely earthy of animals.

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