Difference between Plunk and Plunge

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: NOUN

A dollar.
A twang; a twanging sound: as, the plunk-plunk of the banjo.
A hard, dull blow: as, to hit one a plunk.
A short hollow twanging sound.
A heavy blow or stroke.
(baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly
A hollow twanging sound
A large sum of money.
Act or sound of plunking.

A sudden and violent pitching forward of the body, and pitching up of the hind legs, as by an unruly horse
A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water)
Hence, a desperate hazard or act; a state of being submerged or overwhelmed with difficulties.
The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
An immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself.
A voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.
The act of plunging or submerging
The act of thrusting into or submerging; a dive, leap, rush, or pitch into, or as into, water.
The act or an instance of plunging.
A swim; a dip.
A sudden or dramatic decline.
A sudden dive, leap, or dip into something: as, a plunge in the sea.
An immersion in difficulty, embarrassment, or distress; the condition of being surrounded or overwhelmed; a strait; difficulty.
A brief swim in water
A steep and rapid fall

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: VERB

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
Drop steeply
Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
To drop or throw heavily (onto or into something) so that it makes a sound

Cause to be immersed
To cast or throw into some thing, state, condition or action
Begin with vigor
Dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
Engross (oneself) fully
Drop steeply
Thrust or throw into
Fall abruptly

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To play truant, or “hooky”.
To throw or place heavily or abruptly.
To strum or pluck (a stringed instrument).
To drop or fall abruptly or heavily; plump.
To emit a hollow twanging sound.
To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.
To make a quick, hollow, metallic, or harsh sound, as by pulling hard on a taut string and quickly releasing it; of a raven, to croak.

To move forward and downward violently.
To slope steeply downward.
To enter or move headlong through something.
To devote oneself to or undertake an activity earnestly or wholeheartedly.
To fall rapidly.
To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place.
To become suddenly lower; decrease dramatically.
To thrust or cast one's self into water or other fluid; to submerge one's self; to dive, or to rush in. Also used figuratively.
To pitch or throw one's self headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
To bet heavily and with seeming recklessness on a race, or other contest; in an extended sense, to risk large sums in hazardous speculations.
Firing directed upon an enemy from an elevated position.
To use a plunger to try to unblock (a drain, for example).
To dive, jump, or throw oneself.
To cast suddenly, violently, or deeply into a given state or situation.

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: TRANSITIVE VERB

To be a truant from (school).
To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply, or suddenly; ; also, to hit or strike.
To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.

To entangle; to embarrass; to overcome.
To baptize by immersion.
To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust. Also used figuratively.

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: ADVERB

Exactly; precisely.
With a short hollow thud

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: OTHER WORD TYPES

Suddenly; plump: as, he came plunk against the half-open door.
To plunge or drop down abruptly.
To croak or cry as a raven.
To make or emit an abrupt and usually heavy sound: especially used of the rough sounding of a stringed instrument, and sometimes strung out with arbitrary variations (as in the quotation).
To pluck (a stringed instrument) so as to produce a low or deep sound; in general, twang.
To shoot; fill full of ‘lead’ (missiles).
To knock (away); knock (from).
To strike suddenly, with a dull sound; knock; bang: as, they plunked him with stones.

To cast or thrust suddenly into water or some other fluid, or into some penetrable substance; immerse; thrust: as, to plunge one's hand into the water; to plunge a dagger into one's breast.
Figuratively, to cast or throw into some thing, state, condition, or action: as, plunged in grief; to plunge a nation into war.
To entangle or embarrass: used chiefly in the past participle.
To dive, leap, or rush (into water or some fluid).
To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state, or condition: as, to plunge into debt or into a controversy.
To throw the body forward and the hind legs up, as an unruly horse.
To descend precipitously or vertically, as a cliff.
To bet recklessly; gamble for large stakes; speculate.
In horticulture, to sink (a pot or box containing a plant) in the ground to the rim or edge. Pots of greenhouse plants are often plunged in the open in warm weather, both for the good of the plants and for their effect in ornamentation.
To turn over (the telescope of a surveyor's transit or theodolite) in a vertical plane, making the object-glass pass underneath. In transiting the telescope it may pass either above or below.
In geology, to dip under the surface: used in reference to such structural features as folds where, unless the axis is perfectly horizontal, one end pitches below the horizon or general surface.
Devote (oneself) fully to
(idiom) (take the plunge) To begin an unfamiliar venture, especially after hesitating.

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: RELATED WORDS

Put, Flump, Plunk down, Plump down, Plank, Clump, Dive, Clunk, Pick, Plunge, Plump, Clop, Pluck, Plonk, Plop

Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Absorb, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Immerse, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: DESCRIBE WORDS

Plink, Ker, Ask, Put, Plump down, Plank, Clump, Dive, Clunk, Pick, Plunge, Plump, Clop, Plonk, Plop

Decline, Slide, Nosedive, Tumble, Souse, Engross, Dunk, Douse, Launch, Plunk, Engulf, Dump, Steep, Dive, Dip

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

Plunk some coffee cubes in your iced coffee.
Before you plunk a shed down on your property, keep these practical concerns in mind.
This may not make much sense, but see the next plunk for an example.
Services were conducted on Friday, Feb. 25 at the Plunk Funeral Home in Camden.
Float fish with bigger bobbers or cast out a few ounces to plunk.
To plunk the bait, you should purchase lead weights.
Finally, you are ready to plunk out the melody.
Plunk on the telephone, anxious to gauge his condition.
It drops with a PLUNK into the river below.
Grandchildren: Corey Lee Baumgartner, Dustin James Hustead, Loren David Plunk, Devon Lethaniel Marquardson, Erin Kathleen Plunk, and Kaleb Elwin Marquardson.

Dom was about to plunge into his back?
Garden and plunge pool in the Manor grounds.
Best Places to Plunge into Shopping in London.
We need not plunge into these troubled waters.
Relax and enjoy the usually uncrowded plunge pool.
Look no further than the current market plunge.
Secure desired router bit in collet, stand router upright hand plunge to approx desired depth lock plunge lock lever.
The Milescraft Rotary Tool Plunge Attachment converts your rotary tool into a mini plunge router.
To plunge the saw downward you depress the plunge trigger located at the top of the back handle.
The plunge base features a generously sized plunge lever, which was easy to lock and release, and the plunge action was smooth.

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: QUESTIONS

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PLUNK AND PLUNGE

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: NOUN

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: VERB

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: INTRANSITIVE VERB

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: TRANSITIVE VERB

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: ADVERB

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: OTHER WORD TYPES

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: RELATED WORDS

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: DESCRIBE WORDS

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

PLUNK vs PLUNGE: QUESTIONS