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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: bit, hunk, lump, chip, chunk, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: bit, hunk, lump, chip, chunk, tranche, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: education, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: bundle, cluster
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A segment of a comedian's performance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: comedy, entertainment, lifestyle
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noun
Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, archaic
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verb
To break into large pieces or chunks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To throw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, slang, transitive
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Synonyms: chuck, fling, hurl, bung, cast, chunk, 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, whop, wing, yeet
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Appalachia, intransitive
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verb
To deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: video-games
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To remove a chunk from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
a compact mass
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agglomeration
Narrower terms: clot, coagulum, gob, clew
noun
a substantial amount
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
verb
group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: collocate, lump
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: group
verb
put together indiscriminately
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lump
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
History
Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare Dutch schonk.
Across languages
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
