Meaning

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

    The statue broke into chunks.

    a chunk of granite

    Stück, Einzelteil

    кусо́кkusók

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

    A large or substantial portion of something.

    a substantial amount

  3. A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.

    Chunk

  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.

Examples

25 sentences
  1. She spends a pretty good chunk of time just sitting there and looking out the window.

    deSie verbringt recht viel Zeit damit, einfach nur dort zu sitzen und aus dem Fenster zu sehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom was injured when a large chunk of ice slid off the roof and hit him.

  3. Chunking helps improve memory retention.

    Фрагментування допомагає покращити здатність запам'ятовувати. — Ahha

  4. Sami removed a big chunk of carpet.

  5. That boy threw a chunk of stone.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a part of something:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a part of something:
sequence of two or more words:

Origin

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutiv

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

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