bunk vs dwell

bunk

verb
  • To depart; scram. 

  • To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). 

  • To occupy a bunk. 

  • To provide a bunk. 

noun
  • A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night. 

  • A cot. 

  • Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense. 

  • A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient. 

  • A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. 

  • A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other. 

  • One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers. 

adj
  • Defective, broken, not functioning properly. 

dwell

verb
  • To abide; to remain; to continue. 

  • To live; to reside. 

  • To be in a given state. 

  • To linger on a particular thought, idea, etc.; to remain fixated on something. 

noun
  • In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each). 

  • A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed. 

  • A planned delay in a timed control program. 

  • A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state. 

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