Chunk

/t͡ʃʌŋk/ · noun

Meaning

A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone..

Definitions by Sense

1. A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
2. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
3. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
4. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
5. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
6. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
7. (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
8. (intransitive, Appalachia) To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• chunks
• chunking
• chunked

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