What's the difference between hun and pun?

Hun


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a warlike nomadic people of Northern Asia who, in the 5th century, under Atilla, invaded and conquered a great part of Europe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's party won the July polls with 68 seats to the CNRP's 55, a vastly reduced majority but one that the opposition alleges was still biased in the CPP's favour.
  • (2) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
  • (3) The theory is put forward that the Mongolian people living north of China and having constant fights with the Chinese have learnt the horseshoes with nails from the Chinese and that the Huns on their travel westwards have brought this type of horseshoe to Europa.
  • (4) It was hours before the selfie mob questioned what they had actually taken part in beyond a mass exercise in narcissism greeted by adoring comments saying "you still look hot hun".
  • (5) • Boris Johnson finally loses patience with being asked to keep a low profile and organises a publicity stunt to launch an attack on the Greek embassy and hold the ambassador personally responsible for all the money his government owes the Hun as well as a few unpaid congestion charge fines.
  • (6) Notably, Cambodian strongman Hun Sen has described the Republican candidate as “very talented”.
  • (7) No cases of symptomatic early or late HUN were observed in this series.
  • (8) These asymptomatic complications contrast with the symptomatic cases of early or late HUN reported in the literature which necessitated urologic and vascular investigations.
  • (9) "Where I come from they see me as somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun," he jokes.
  • (10) You mean the moment's finally arrived for us to give Harry Hun a good old British-style thrashing, six of the best, trousers down?
  • (11) Largely unfancied, they'd edged past Belgium and Cameroon to make the semi in which the beastly Hun went ahead from a deflected free kick.
  • (12) South Korea pop Kim Jae-sung into midfield in place of Yeom Ki-hun: Jung, Cha, Cho, Jung-Soo Lee, Young-Pyo Lee, Ki, Jung-Woo Kim, Jae-Sung Kim, Ji-Sung Park, Chung-Yong Lee, Chu-Young Park.
  • (13) Meanwhile Ki Sung-Yeung is replaced by Yeom Ki-Hun.
  • (14) While young people have been heavily involved in the protests, many of the first to flood the capital were middle-aged and elderly people, often bearing specific grievances against the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled for 29 years.
  • (15) Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, welcomed the ruling, saying it "gives the frontier between the two countries a clear borderline".
  • (16) The results announced on state television on Sunday morning handed 68 National Assembly seats to Hun Sen's Cambodian People's party and 55 to the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party.
  • (17) The talks lasted about 20 minutes, and Hun Sen left without commenting.
  • (18) I don’t think any of them have expressed any desire to go.” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, and who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
  • (19) All that allows to draw the cautious conclusion that a small split off migrating group of gypsies, who in the 6th century A.D. on their move in flight before the rage of the Huns had immigrated to Iran, halted during their migration in Mesopotamia at the latest in about the 8th century.
  • (20) "If Hun Sen agreed to an outside investigation at this stage, that would be tantamount to conceding that the elections were rigged," he said.

Pun


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pound.
  • (n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.
  • (v. i.) To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.
  • (v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
  • (2) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
  • (3) January 12, 2016 Shorten hastily responded to that debate on Twitter with a pun-laden non-answer, saying: “Cos you asked … my favourite lettuce is one that doesn’t have a 15 per cent GST on it.” Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) Cos you asked @workmanalice - my favourite lettuce is one that doesn't have a 15 per cent GST on it.
  • (4) The following day, politicians and eurocrats began scrambling to hammer out a larger rescue package for Greece: 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian That was the time when puns about Acropolis Now, and ‘making a drachma out of a crisis’ were in vogue: Greek debt crisis, 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian But there wasn’t much time for jokes.
  • (5) Hemingway’s daughter, Corey, is in a marquee at the back of the site, painting a teddy bear onto some MDF, in the pursuit of a Teddy Boy pun that either doesn’t work, or I don’t get, but it looks great.
  • (6) The outcome of 53 patients operated on either for posttraumatic ulnar neuropathy (PUN) or non-traumatic cubital tunnel syndrome (CTS) was reviewed after 3 years follow-up.
  • (7) In a report called "Un-Finnished Business" (you can always rely on the rating agencies for a bad pun), the analysts write: We think the risks to growth in 2012 and 2013 are rising.
  • (8) In all experiments, supplementing TRP-deficient diets with D- and L-TRP significantly increased feed intake, rate and efficiency of gain and decreased plasma urea N (PUN).
  • (9) Systemic LH, FSH, glucagon, cortisol, PUN, NEFA, estradiol, and testosterone were not affected by insulin or level of feeding.
  • (10) The first of April is normally a day of frothy fun, where newspapers and brands compete to produce the best jokes and the worst puns to fool their readers.
  • (11) The unfortunate design hasn’t gone unnoticed and attracted puns galore when it was posted on Reddit over the weekend .
  • (12) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The signs of wealth are everywhere, from the luxury gated village of the Pun Hlaing Golf Estate to the towers around swimming pools of Star City , both projects of the Pun empire.
  • (13) Emad Hajjaj, a popular Jordanian cartoonist, drew an elderly Palestinian woman by her sagging UN tent saying – in an untranslatable pun on the words “Charlie” and the colloquial Arabic “I have been” – that she had lived as a refugee for the 67 years since the creation of Israel in 1948.
  • (14) During the war years, his snappy, escapist films brought joy to audiences on the home front, while he was the only Hope (puns on his surname have always been de rigueur ) for thousands of troops overseas whom he entertained on his various tours from 1941.
  • (15) Second, the yuck factor: isn't it just beyond tasteful (no pun intended) for a woman to put her nipple into another woman's baby's mouth?
  • (16) The report tackles a number of issues which, excuse the pun, have been ‘bubbling’ up over the last year.
  • (17) Sorry and all that, but the pun was too good to use: Genre?
  • (18) Was The Wine Show supposed to be a deliberately awful pun on The One Show?
  • (19) The comedian Rob Auton, 30, has seen off competition from acclaimed pun-slingers including Tim Vine and Gary Delaney to pick up TV channel Dave's annual award for one-liners at the fringe.
  • (20) An experiment was conducted with 36 crossbred finishing pigs (18 male castrates and 18 females) to evaluate the effect of bromocriptine implants on growth, feed intake, feed efficiency, plasma urea nitrogen (PUN) and carcass characteristics.

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