What does thud mean?
Definitions for thud
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Princeton's WordNet
thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thudverb
a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
thud, thumpverb
make a dull sound
"the knocker thudded against the front door"
thudverb
strike with a dull sound
"Bullets were thudding against the wall"
crump, thud, scrunchverb
make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants
Wiktionary
thudnoun
The sound of a dull impact.
thudnoun
Republic F-105 Thunderchief jet ground attack fighter, after the sound it makes when it crashed into the North Vietnamese countryside, due to its high rate of loss.
thudverb
To make the sound of a dull impact.
ChatGPT
thud
A thud is a dull, heavy sound, often made when two solid objects collide or something heavy falls or strikes another object. It is also used to describe the impact sound or action itself.
Webster Dictionary
Thudnoun
a dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Thud
thud, n. a dull, hollow sound, caused by a blow or a heavy body falling: a loud noise, concussion, or blast.—v.i. to make a thudding sound: (Scot.) to move quickly.—v.t. (Scot.) to beat, strike. [A.S. þóden, noise.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
thud
1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was ‘foo’, ‘bar’, ‘thud’, ‘blat’. 2. Rare term for the hash character, ‘#’ (ASCII 0100011). See ASCII for other synonyms.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
thud
The sound of a bullet on hitting the intended object.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
thud
The sound of a bullet on hitting the intended object.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of thud in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of thud in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of thud in a Sentence
I'm across the room, and I hear a shriek and a thud.
I think it was that big thud. I think that was cargo that shifted and that caused the boat to flip.
I felt and heard a loud thud around 1:30 or so. I thought my neighbor dropped a large item like a piece of furniture, i only found out a bit later on Twitter that it was a gas explosion just down the road from me. I hope no one got hurt.
Suddenly, out of nowhere I felt this thud in the front of my head.
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- bumpDanish
- dumpfer Aufschlag, dumpf aufschlagen, stampfenGerman
- choque, topetazoSpanish
- tömähtää, jysähtää, mätkähdys, mätkähtää, tömähdys, jysähdysFinnish
- marteler, martèlementFrench
- गिरनाHindi
- tonfoItalian
- קוֹל עָמוּםHebrew
- hapuru, ngahoaMāori
- لبق, دبق, lebak, debakMalay
- глухой звукRussian
- ịchVietnamese
- 轟的一聲Chinese
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