Difference between Nonsense and Bunk

What is the difference between Nonsense and Bunk?

Nonsense as a verb is to make nonsense of while Bunk as a verb is to occupy a bunk

Nonsense

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make nonsense of To attempt to dismiss as nonsense. To joke around, to waste time

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning. An untrue statement. Something foolish. A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by Edward Lear. A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

Example sentence: To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Bunk

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One of a series of berths or bed placed in tiers.A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.A cot.A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to occupy a bunkto provide a bunkTo fail to attend school without permission; to play truant.To expel from a school.

Example sentence: Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

We hope you now know whether to use Nonsense or Bunk in your sentence.

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