English Explanatory Dictionary

chunk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
  2. A large or substantial portion of something.
  3. A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
  4. A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
  5. A segment of a comedian's performance.
verb
  1. To break into large pieces or chunks.
  2. To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
  3. To throw.
  4. To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.
  5. Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
  6. To remove a chunk from.
noun
  1. Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”).

Pronunciation

/t͡ʃʌŋk/ en-us-chunk.ogg

Word forms

chunk chunks chunking chunked

Etymology

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare Dutch schonk.

Synonyms

bit hunk lump chip chunk clip crumb crumbling cutting flake fleak fragment mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap scraplet slice snead snippet steck bundle cluster chuck fling hurl bung cast cook dash dump feck jerk heave hield hoy huck hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project quoit shy slight skew sling thrill throw toss traject warp whang whip

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

Bulgarian: парче Chinese Mandarin: 塊 /块 Czech: kus Czech: kousek Dutch: stuk Dutch: brok Dutch: klomp Finnish: pala Finnish: näyte French: pièce French: morceau French: bloc French: fragment German: Stück German: Einzelteil Hungarian: darab Italian: pezzo Italian: tocco Japanese: 塊 Korean: 조각 Northern Kurdish: perçe Norwegian Bokmål: bit Norwegian Bokmål: klump Occitan: bocin Occitan: tròç Portuguese: pedaço Romanian: bucată Russian: кусо́к Spanish: trozo Spanish: pedazo Spanish: socotroco Spanish: bloque Spanish: fragmento Swedish: bit Swedish: klump Turkish: parça Vietnamese: mảnh Vietnamese: mẩu Vietnamese: cục Irish: baog Tagalog: tigkal
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