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Definition of Chunk
1. Verb. Put together indiscriminately. "Lump together all the applicants"
Generic synonyms: Accumulate, Amass, Collect, Compile, Hoard, Pile Up, Roll Up
Derivative terms: Lump
2. Noun. A compact mass. "A ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"
Specialized synonyms: Clot, Coagulum, Gob, Clew
Generic synonyms: Agglomeration
Derivative terms: Chunky, Lumpy
3. Verb. Group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side.
Generic synonyms: Group
Derivative terms: Chunking, Collocation, Lump, Lumper
4. Noun. A substantial amount. "We won a chunk of money"
Definition of Chunk
1. n. A short, thick piece of anything.
Definition of Chunk
1. Noun. A part of something that has been separated. ¹
2. Noun. A representative of a substance at large, often large and irregular. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block. ¹
4. Verb. To break into large pieces or chunks. ¹
5. Verb. (slang especially Southern US) To throw. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chunk
1. to make a dull explosive sound [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chunk
Literary usage of Chunk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"MAUCH chunk is a village of about 200 houses, in the deep and narrow Lehigh Valley.
The houses form almost one row only, and a small street in the lateral ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"MAUCH chunk is a village of about 200 houses, in the deep and narrow Lehigh Valley.
The houses form almost one row only, and a small street in the lateral ..."
3. The Traveller's Guide Through the Middle and Northern States, and the by Gideon Miner Davison (1840)
"From Pottsville, a stage can bo taken to Mauch chunk, it the Lehigh coal mines,
a distance of 32 miles in a northeasterly direction. ..."
4. History of the Lehigh Valley: Containing a Copious Selection of the Most by Mathew Schropp Henry (1860)
"MAUCH chunk, the seat of justice of Carbon County, was incorporated as a ...
The town occupies a small area at the confluence of the Mauch chunk Creek and ..."
5. Garrett County by Maryland Geological Survey, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1902)
"The Mauch chunk formation consists of a series of thinly bedded green ...
The Mauch chunk formation of Maryland is the tax- onomic equivalent of the upper ..."
6. Results of Primary Triangulation and Primary Traverse: Fiscal Year 1904-05 by Samuel Stinson Gannett (1905)
"It is overlain by a great thickness of Manch chunk red shale, and this in turn
is overlain by the heavy conglomerates of the Pottsville formation. ..."
7. The History of the Great Riots: Being a Full and Authentic Account of the by James Dabney McCabe (1877)
"... forming itself some distance eastward from Mauch chunk, takes, under the name
of the ' Second Mountain,' a southwesterly course to the Susquehanna river ..."
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