Chunk

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  • noun. A thick mass or piece.
  • noun. A substantial amount.
  • noun. A strong stocky horse.
  • intransitive verb. To form into chunks.
  • intransitive verb. To make a dull clacking sound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A short thick piece, as of wood.
  • noun. A person or a beast that is small, but thick-set and strong: as, a chunk of a boy; a chunk of a horse.
  • noun. A game formerly much played by certain tribes of North American Indians, consisting in rolling a disk of stone along a prepared course, and immediately afterward throwing a stick so as to make it lie as near the stone as possible when the two come to rest. The grounds used for this amusement are known as chunk-yards.
  • In lumbering, to clear (ground) with an engine or horses of obstructions which cannot be removed by hand.
  • noun. Specifically, a range-bred horse of the western United States, suitable for draft purposes, standing 15 hands or over, and weighing from 1,100 to 1,400 pounds.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A short, thick piece of anything.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A part of something that has been separated.
  • noun. A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular.
  • noun. A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
  • verb. To break into large pieces or chunks.
  • verb. To throw.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. put together indiscriminately
  • noun. a substantial amount
  • noun. a compact mass
  • verb. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
  • Word Usage
    "As someone who spends a healthy if that's the word chunk of most weekends catching up on Friday night TV, here are some very strong arguments for even the most cabin-feverish among us to stay in this Friday night."
    cross-reference
    bit  chuck  hunk  lump  piece  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Funk  Monk  blunk  bunk  clunk  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bit  block  boulder  bundle  chip  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    chunked  chunking  chunks