different between plunge vs dunk

English

Etymology

From Middle English plungen, ploungen, Anglo-Norman plungier, from Old French plongier, (Modern French plonger), from unattested Late Latin frequentative to throw a leaded line, from plumbum (“lead”). Compare plumb, plounce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Verb

plunge (third-person singular simple present plunges, present participle plunging, simple past and past participle plunged)

1. (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.

2. (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action.

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4. (transitive, obsolete) To baptize by immersion.
5. (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.

6. (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
7. (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
   • 1654, Joseph Hall, Select Thoughts, or Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit

     some wild colt, which […] flings and plunges

8. (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
9. (intransitive, obsolete) To entangle or embarrass (mostly used in past participle).
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To overwhelm, overpower.

Translations

Noun

plunge (plural plunges)

1. the act of plunging or submerging
2. a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)

   to take the water with a plunge

   A plunge into the sea

3. (dated) A swimming pool
4. (figuratively) the act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse
5. (slang) heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation
6. (obsolete) an immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty

Translations

References

• plunge in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “plunge”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• pungle

English

Etymology

From Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunk?n (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunk?n (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunk?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”).

Cognate with German tunken (“to dunk”), Latin ting? (“to wet, moisten”), Ancient Greek ????? (téng?, “to wet, moisten”). Related to taint, tincture, tint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

dunk (third-person singular simple present dunks, present participle dunking, simple past and past participle dunked)

1. To submerge briefly in a liquid.

2. To set down carelessly.

3. (transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.

4. (intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [+ on (object)].

Translations

Noun

dunk (plural dunks)

1. The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.

Translations

Related terms

• dunk tank
• reverse dunk
• slam dunk
• thunderdunk

See also

• alley oop
• jam
• slam

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/
• Hyphenation: dunk
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Deverbal of dunken.

Noun

dunk m (uncountable, diminutive dunkje n)

1. opinion

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dunk

Noun

dunk m (plural dunks, diminutive dunkje n)

1. (basketball) dunk

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dunk

1. first-person singular present indicative of dunken
2. imperative of dunken

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/

Etymology 1

Noun

dunk m (definite singular dunken, indefinite plural dunkar, definite plural dunkane)
dunk n (definite singular dunket, indefinite plural dunk, definite plural dunka)

1. a knock (impact), or the sound of such a knock

Etymology 2

Noun

dunk m (definite singular dunken, indefinite plural dunkar, definite plural dunkane)

1. a keg

Synonyms

• kagge

References

• “dunk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German tunneke, a diminutive of tunne (“barrel”).

Noun

dunk

1. jerry can

Anagrams

• kund