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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chunk
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chunk of bread (=a piece that you pull off a loaf instead of cutting it)
▪ He tore off a chunk of bread and dipped it in the sauce.
chop sth into pieces/chunks etc
▪ Chop the meat into small cubes.
cut sth into pieces/slices/chunks etc
▪ Next cut the carrots into thin slices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The fact that one person owns a big chunk of shares is price-sensitive information.
▪ And great big chunks of the current Libertarian Party movement contain a horde of former left-wing nuts who are now Libertarian nuts.
▪ Merger mania With fewer companies chasing bigger chunks of business, merger mania has broken out.
▪ The total for all the big chunks is the budget and time needed for the entire project.
▪ Miguel watched as big chunks of building came crashing down just beyond the engines.
▪ Top prices reached about £10,000 for a big chunk, well below the expected sums.
▪ A man wants as big a chunk of land as he can get and control.
good
▪ Strapped for funds, the organizers had gambled a good chunk of their budget on one event.
great
▪ In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
▪ And great big chunks of the current Libertarian Party movement contain a horde of former left-wing nuts who are now Libertarian nuts.
▪ In fact, I seem to remember it was a bloody great chunk of the office building took my head off.
▪ Amelia always memorized great chunks of her favorites, so before long Katch, too, memorized the poem.
▪ To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses, pieces of fallen statuary among them.
▪ There are great chunks of life, after childhood, which drop out of conscious memory.
huge
▪ Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past.
▪ Congress is poised to block-grant to the states huge chunks of federal programs.
▪ Two, three, four huge chunks of Chicken Thallium.
▪ On the downside, the program requires a relatively powerful computer and a huge chunk of disk space to run.
▪ It detonated with enough force to bring down huge chunks of rock from the ceiling.
▪ From that comes Terminator 2, Frankenstein, and a huge chunk of science fiction.
▪ I was used to having huge chunks of time to do stuff and got pretty spoiled in that regard.
large
▪ The once-yellow building was rust brown. Large chunks of plaster were missing.
▪ Yes, I know a large chunk of the child population today is virtually feral, untended and untutored by responsible parents.
▪ Also my plants seem to be disappearing in large chunks - am I underfeeding my fish?
▪ Ensuring that San Francisco grabs a large chunk of global trade.
▪ Conservation areas can be spread over large chunks of historic towns or just one street.
▪ They were worth every penny of the large chunk of the Hochhauser budget they absorbed.
▪ At one corner, a large chunk had been knocked out completely, leaving a nasty, jagged edge.
▪ More importantly, it rewrote large chunks of accepted science.
significant
▪ Paying firefighters overtime to fill in for colleagues out on disability ate into a significant chunk of the overtime budget.
small
▪ Let cool, then pull meat off bones and dice into smaller chunks, if necessary.
▪ If she experiences too many challenges at one step, then break up that step into even smaller chunks.
▪ Most of the recovered pieces were small fiberglass chunks and parts of the wings.
▪ By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
▪ Over medium-high heat, cook the sausage, breaking it up into small chunks as you stir, until lightly browned.
whole
▪ I can still recall whole chunks of those books she made me learn by heart.
▪ A whole chunk of the sound has been omitted, and the vowel is entirely wrong.
■ VERB
bite
▪ Catherine Destivelle bites a chunk out of Bonington's beard.
▪ I tore the paper off the chocolate and bit off a chunk.
▪ Then, as the helpless youngster screamed in agony, it bit chunks from his arm, breaking it in two places.
break
▪ Lift out the fish, pull out and discard any stray bones. Break the fish into chunks.
▪ Sometimes you may even break the little chunks down into even smaller pieces.
▪ Skid marks crisscross the center, which is strewn with broken glass and tire chunks.
cut
▪ It's all cut in chunks.
▪ Such incentive programs are likely to cut a chunk out of profits.
▪ Serves 6 1 Spread the sponge with jam and cut into chunks.
▪ Of course, and she knelt down to cut off a sizable chunk of venison.
▪ If the patient eats meat, it should be cut into chunks or cubes, not minced.
▪ Remove skin and bones from poached chicken. Cut meat in chunks.
▪ Remove the meat and transfer it to a chopping board. 5. Cut meat into chunks, discarding skin and bones.
own
▪ The fact that one person owns a big chunk of shares is price-sensitive information.
▪ It will also keep watch for dodgy debt-for-equity swaps which leave banks owning chunks of ailing firms.
▪ This is because the Congress is dominated by large landowners and the Presidents themselves owned hefty chunks.
take
▪ It was when she took a chunk out of my shoulder and nearly bit my damn ear off that I got the message.
▪ How long will it take to do this chunk, and when does it need to be finished?
▪ Or, in Sainsbury-ad speak: Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers.
▪ He finished his sandwich, undid a newspaper parcel, and took out a chunk of gray meat.
▪ As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a can of pineapple chunks
▪ A large chunk of plaster had fallen from the ceiling.
▪ Cut the potatoes into chunks and boil them for 15 minutes.
▪ Peanut butter is best spread on chunks of crusty bread.
▪ pineapple chunks
▪ You can move chunks of text directly from one document to another.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sizeable chunk of the costs gone straight away.
▪ By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
▪ For dessert, cover lime sherbet with a blanket of chocolate chips or chocolate sandwich cookie chunks.
▪ He has chunks of metal in one hip and both ankles, and he conceded to them for years.
▪ Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past.
▪ It's all cut in chunks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chunk

Chunk \Chunk\ (ch[u^][ng]k), n. [Cf. Chump.] A short, thick piece of anything. [Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chunk

"thick block" of something, 1690s, probably a nasalized variant of chuck (n.1) "cut of meat;" meaning "large amount" is 1883, American English.

chunk

"to throw," 1835, American English, from chunk (n.) or by similar mutation from chuck (v.1). Related: Chunked; chunking.

Wiktionary
chunk

n. 1 A part of something that has been separated. 2 A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular. 3 (context computing English) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block. vb. 1 To break into large pieces or chunks. 2 (context slang chiefly Southern US English) To throw.

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WordNet
chunk

  1. n. a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump]

  2. v. put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" [syn: lump]

  3. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: collocate, lump]

Wikipedia
Chunk

Chunk or chunky may refer to:

  • Chunk (cocktail) or tschunk, a cocktail
  • Chunk (information), a fragment of information used in many multimedia formats
  • Chunky, Mississippi, a town in Mississippi
  • Chunky, Texas
  • C.h.u.n.k. 666, an American tall-bike club
  • Nestlé Chunky, a candy bar
  • Packed pixel or "chunky", a method of frame buffer organization in computer graphics
  • Prince Chunk, a forty-four pound cat
Fictional characters
  • Chunk (comics), a character in the DC Comics universe
  • Chunk (Toy Story 3), a character in the 2010 film Toy Story 3
  • Chunky Kong, a character in the video game Donkey Kong 64
  • Chunk, a character in the film The Goonies
Chunk (information)

A chunk is a fragment of information which is used in many multimedia formats, such as PNG, IFF, MP3 and AVI.

Each chunk contains a header which indicates some parameters (e.g. the type of chunk, comments, size etc.) In the middle there is a variable area containing data which are decoded by the program from the parameters in the header.

Chunks may also be fragments of information which are downloaded or managed by P2P programs.

In distributed computing, a chunk is a set of data which are sent to a processor or one of the parts of a computer for processing. For example a sub-set of rows of a matrix.

Usage examples of "chunk".

He lifts the adz again, wondering why Tullar delivers charcoal in such large chunks, and why the smithy bums so much-but he knows the second reason.

Dorrin drives the adz into the largest chunk of charcoal, ignoring the light footsteps on the porch behind him.

More locks, more tools, rough chunks of metal and wood, and a number of devices whose uses Alec could not guess were mixed indiscriminately among masks, carvings, musical instruments of all descriptions, animal skulls, dried plants, fine pottery, glittering crystals-there was no rhyme or reason apparent in the arrangement.

This remarkable artefact consisted of an elemental chunk of bedrock, grey and crystalline, carved into a complex geometrical form of curves and angles, incised niches and external buttresses, surmounted at the centre by a stubby vertical prong.

A chicken leg, a meat pasty, half of a baguette, a large chunk of ripe cheese, and a strawberry tart nestled in the checkered napkin beside a bottle of lemonade.

The Karens built small, closely guarded fires, and Batman gratefully accepted a bowl of hot rice mixed with chunks of some unidentifiable meat, the origins of which he refused to question.

Radhakrishnan had occupied himself with implanting the biochip, a lesser surgeon - more of a technician, really - had drilled a few holes through the disembodied chunk of skull and implanted a plastic connector.

And after Sunny moved aside three chunks of cold cheese, a large can of water chestnuts, and an eggplant as big as herself, she finally found a small jar of boysenberry jam, and a loaf of bread she could use to make toast, although it was so cold it felt more like a log than a breakfast ingredient.

A second later, four rounds of the next six-round burst caught Brachman in the side of his head and ripped off large chunks of his skull and brain.

The Carbine bucked as he pulled the trigger, the bullets biting into the lip of the brick wall, spraying dust and chunks of brick in every direction.

Blake and Anna began to do that, while Kathryn and Cheb turned to the burning drape and, grabbing hold of still-hot chunks of the cloth, tried to tug it from its moorings.

Hotter springs, lashing this superstructure with warm water, kept it in a perilous state of plasticity, so that chunks would break off from time to time, to fall clacking to the rock and gradually be washed away.

He swallowed heartily and, as his master and Gilroy Bastable were clumping toward the door, Ahab thought it a first-rate idea to have another go at the last chunk of wrecked cheese on the plate.

A spectral shape that might have been a clumpish chunk of solid night, this figure had been waiting until the patrolling watchman passed.

Before him, waves of blood washed over the reddened sand in black coagulated chunks.