Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick mass or piece.
- noun Informal A substantial amount.
- noun A strong stocky horse.
- intransitive verb To form into chunks.
- intransitive verb To make a dull clacking sound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game formerly much played by certain tribes of North American Indians, consisting in rolling a disk of stone along a prepared course, and immediately afterward throwing a stick so as to make it lie as near the stone as possible when the two come to rest. The grounds used for this amusement are known as chunk-yards.
- In lumbering, to clear (ground) with an engine or horses of obstructions which cannot be removed by hand.
- noun Specifically, a range-bred horse of the western United States, suitable for draft purposes, standing 15 hands or over, and weighing from 1,100 to 1,400 pounds.
- noun A short thick piece, as of wood.
- noun A person or a beast that is small, but thick-set and strong: as, a chunk of a boy; a chunk of a horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng. A short, thick piece of anything.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
part of something that has beenseparated . - noun A
representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular. - noun computing A
discrete segment of afile ,stream , etc. (especially one that representsaudiovisual media ); ablock . - verb To
break into large pieces or chunks. - verb slang To
throw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put together indiscriminately
- noun a substantial amount
- noun a compact mass
- verb group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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As someone who spends a healthy if that's the word chunk of most weekends catching up on Friday night TV, here are some very strong arguments for even the most cabin-feverish among us to stay in this Friday night.
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Even if the 50,000-word chunk is good, it requires polishing and editing before it can be marketed.
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A significant chunk is for comments critical of officiating.
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Rich chunk is slamming materialistic science, ie scientism and the materialistic scientists.
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Which is not to say that the main chunk of "The Atrocity Archives" is bad, far from it - there are some memorably creepy moments, such as the death of Fred from the accounts department and the exploration of a frozen parallel Earth - it's just that the Hugo voters got it right, as they sometimes do.
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Also, the remaining chunk is on the beach, not in the forest as these two pics clearly are.
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His biggest fish (right) was an 8-pounder that inhaled a 3/8-ounce tungsten jig tipped with twin chunk trailers.
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As it grew weaker and I felt that it would be possible to pull it toward me, one of the fish made a sudden dash and bit a huge chunk from the captive's tail.
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If the chunk is short and large the person will be short and fat, etc.
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