chunk
chunk
Definition
chunk (c̸huŋk)
noun
- a short, thick piece, as of meat or wood
- a considerable portion
- ☆ a stocky animal, esp. a horse
Etymology: < ? chuck
chunk
Synonyms
chunk
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- masonry: One shot chipped a large chunk of masonry from a wall behind me.
- text: Commands which do not kill text separate the chunks of text on the kill ring.
- bread: Now it goes to school with her, Between two chunks of bread.
- meat: Everyone who helps goes home with a big chunk of meat ( even us ).
- flesh: Back at the hotel, I am allowed to handle the hawk and feed her chunks of chick flesh on the tough leather glove.
- ice: Saturday 19th March 2005 " Well, the last chunk of ice that broke off was the size of Rhode Island.
Converse of object
- bite: The Americans were going to let Saddam bite a chunk out of the Kuwaiti border.
- rip: Canines are fang teeth at the front of mouths which carnivores use to rip chunks of meat from their prey.
- knock: I discovered TI and was soon knocking chunks off my swim times.
- devote: Weâve devoted great chunks of our lives to this matter.
Adjective modifier
- bite-sized: Make up a timetable allowing yourself to deal with each item in a ' bite-sized chunk ' .
- manageable: Breaking things down into a series of manageable chunks usually makes things easier.
- sizeable: A sizeable chunk of the report is devoted to affordable housing.
- bite-size: The DVD provides chapter points to make it easier to deliver the training in bite-size chunks.
- digestible: Click below to listen again to the whole of Fatboy Slim's DJ set in four easily digestible chunks.
- sizable: A sizable chunk of the CDs sold in the UK have an unintended gap in the middle of the first track.
Noun used with modifier
- pineapple: Alternate pork cubes with pineapple chunks on 4-5 long skewers.
- bite: You can use the Computer of the Gods to scale down the solar system so that it is in bite size chunks.
- cm: Toast the bread and cut into 1 cm chunks.
- byte: Below is the code listing where the device is nothing but an 80 byte chunk of memory.
Browse dictionary entries near chunk
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- chumming
- chumminess
- chummily
- chummiest
- chummier
- chummed
- chum salmon
- chunkier
- chunkiest
- chunkily
- chunkiness
- chunky
- Chunnel
- chunter
- church
- church key
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