chunk

[US]/tʃʌŋk/
[UK]/tʃʌŋk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a large piece; a short, thickset person or thing.

Phrases & Collocations

big chunk

small chunk

chunk of meat

chunk of cheese

Example Sentences

a chunk of ice.

won quite a chunk of money.

chunk four pounds of pears.

marble-size chunks of hail.

huge chunks of masonry littered the street.

fuel takes a large chunk of their small income.

the door chunked behind them.

chunks of chicken flavoured with herbs.

chunks of fish pickled in brine.

listened to the electronic printer chunk along.

Giant shovels are biting off big chunks from the hill.

Memory deallocation may be as simple as adding that chunk to the front of the free list, a O(1) operation.

Ho-Chunk was born from the fear that gambling money—the Winnebago have a small casino in Iowa—would dwindle.

In the old days having meat and milk every day often meant a big chunk of the family income.

Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bit smaller?

Kago is taking the manga comic form and breaking it open into little chunks of weirdness, self-reflexivity, and super-trippy formal experiments.

1. on the rough sea ice you may on an unshadowed day...fall over a chunk of ice that is kneehigh- Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

This scrumptious sampler includes a shareable platter of Applebees Boneless Chicken Chunks,Onion Rings, Chicken Nacho Grande, and our Shrimp Quesadilla.

Real-world Examples

I even own the chunk of dirt.

Source: VOA Standard English_ Technology

Here we have a big chunk of something.

Source: Monetary Banking (Video Version)

There's a few chocolate chunks in there.

Source: Perspective Encyclopedia of Gourmet Food

Drug trafficking is the biggest chunk of that, about 320 billion dollars.

Source: Economic Crash Course

Let's look at some of Kirsten's chunks.

Source: Six-Minute Basic Vocabulary

Well, that'll be a nice chunk of change.

Source: Deadly Women

" Bring one of the big beech chunks, " Bill said.

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

D) It brings in a large chunk of mobile population.

Source: Past exam papers for the English CET-6 reading section.

'Fell in de fiah' an' he kick up a chunk! '

Source: Gone with the Wind

So block trades, they're very large chunks of shares.

Source: Financial Times

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