different between broadcasting vs quonk

English

Adjective

broadcasting (not comparable)

1. Sending in all directions.

Noun

broadcasting (countable and uncountable, plural broadcastings)

1. (business) The business or profession of radio and television.

   Broadcasting can be a lucrative field, but very few people end up on the air.

2. The act by which something is broadcast.

   frequent broadcastings of the same old material

Translations

Verb

broadcasting

1. present participle of broadcast

   This radio station is broadcasting at a frequency of 104 MHz.

   We sowed the seeds, broadcasting with a rotary spreader.

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw??k/

Noun

quonk (uncountable)

1. Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
2. Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.

Verb

quonk (third-person singular simple present quonks, present participle quonking, simple past and past participle quonked)

1. (intransitive) To produce unwanted noise.
   • 2004, Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives

     The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]

2. (intransitive) To honk.
   • 1902, Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor

     As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.

   • 1999, Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey

     […] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]