chunk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: comedy
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Etymology: Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare Dutch schonk.
Affixes: -kin
Inflected forms:
form: chunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chunks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chunking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chunked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chunked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
pos: noun
examples: The statue broke into chunks.
a chunk of granite
Daylight, between mouthfuls, fed chunks of ice into the tin pot, where it thawed into water. […] Daylight cut up generous chunks of bacon and dropped them in the pot of bubbling beans.
Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
gloss: A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
pos: noun
examples: I'd be willing to bet a chunk of my retirement that the number hasn't decreased.
[…] she'd be willing to bet a chunk of change this would be one of the nicest rooms Kate-Lynn Bowers had ever slept in: it was the sort of place you'd think twice about running away from.
gloss: A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
pos: noun
examples: In fact, some linguists suggest that 45 percent to 60 percent of what you produce in your L1 is functional chunks of language. These chunks of language also give you some sense of fluency.
gloss: A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
pos: noun
examples: The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.
Each peer downloads the desired file, in chunks, from a multitude of other peers. While downloading missing chunks, peers upload to other peers in the same torrent the chunks they have already obtained.
gloss: A segment of a comedian's performance.
pos: noun
examples: You begin gathering two hours of dependable comedy by developing that first three-minute chunk. When you're satisfied with it, you create another three minutes of laughs, then another three minutes.
If you're gigging outdoors for the Society of Catholic Gardeners, don't close your set with your "Papa Beelzebub" chunk (no matter how life affirming you think it is!).
gloss: To break into large pieces or chunks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: These results offer tentative evidence that suggests that certain components of computer-mediated instruction (in this case, access to and control over syntactically chunked, captioned video) are not necessarily beneficial for certain learners […]
gloss: To throw.
pos: verb
tags: Southern-US
slang
transitive
examples: Calpurnia said it was hard on Helen, because she had to walk nearly a mile out of her way to availed the Ewells, who, according to Helen, “chunked at her” the first time she tried to use the public road.
gloss: To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.
pos: verb
tags: Appalachia
intransitive
gloss: Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.
gloss: To remove a chunk from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Mind you keep very still," he said, "or I might chunk a bit out of you with the spade."
Derived words: chunk-blower
chunkful
chunkification
chunkify
chunklength
chunkless
chunklet
chunklike
chunk of change
chunkserver
chunkster
chunkwise
chunky
kerchunk
subchunk
chunkable
chunker
dechunk
microchunk
mischunk
prechunk
rechunk
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: парче
roman: parče
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 塊 /块
roman: kuài
lang: Czech
word: kus
lang: Czech
word: kousek
lang: Dutch
word: stuk
lang: Dutch
word: brok
lang: Dutch
word: klomp
lang: Finnish
word: pala
lang: French
word: pièce
lang: French
word: morceau
lang: German
word: Stück
lang: German
word: Einzelteil
lang: Hungarian
word: darab
lang: Italian
word: pezzo
lang: Italian
word: tocco
lang: Japanese
word: 塊
roman: katamari
lang: Korean
word: 조각
roman: jogak
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: perçe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: bit
lang: Occitan
word: bocin
lang: Occitan
word: tròç
lang: Portuguese
word: pedaço
lang: Romanian
word: bucată
lang: Russian
word: кусо́к
roman: kusók
lang: Spanish
word: trozo
lang: Spanish
word: pedazo
lang: Spanish
word: socotroco
lang: Swedish
word: bit
lang: Turkish
word: parça
lang: Vietnamese
word: mảnh
lang: Vietnamese
word: mẩu
lang: Vietnamese
word: cục