Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CHUNK

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Definitions of CHUNK

1. A part of something that has been separated.
2. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
3. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
4. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
5. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
6. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
7. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
8. (transitive, slang, chiefly, Southern US) To throw.
9. (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

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Examples of Using CHUNK in a Sentence

• Newer files have a header that consists of six unsigned 32-bit words, an optional information chunk which is always of non-zero size, and then the data (in big-endian format).
• Jeffrey Bertan Cohen (born Jeffrey Bertan McMahon; June 25, 1974) is an American attorney and retired child actor best remembered for appearing as Chunk in the 1985 Steven Spielberg production The Goonies.
• According to research, Conrad's find was a gold chunk approximately the size of a shoe and weighing 17 pounds.
• Wright County lost part of its land in 1845 to Texas County, in 1849 to Laclede, and in 1855 a big chunk to Webster.
• Today one can still see evidence of a minority of landowners, or share farmers who voted for annexation to the city in 1915 by the odd chunk taken out of Elmwood Park's northeast corner, which kept the community from achieving a full square rectangular border.
• Other unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Cornish, Foul Rift, Hazen, Little York, Manunka Chunk, Sarepta and Summerfield.
• In 1791 Nicholas and John Roosevelt purchased 525,000 that covered most of Oswego, Oneida, and a small chunk of Herkimer counties known as the Roosevelt purchase.
• Jim Thorpe (known as East and West Mauch Chunk until 1954) is a borough and the county seat of Carbon County in the U.
• The natural northern boundary with Jim Thorpe and Summit Hill is on the south slope of Mauch Chunk Mountain.
• Summit Hill was the western terminus of the United States' second operational railway, the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway.
• This route connects the Lehigh River in Jim Thorpe (formerly known as Mauch Chunk) to the Susquehanna River in Berwick.
• The history, business situation, and fortunes of not just the two, but of three towns, the third being the nearby Summit Hill, located a few thousand feet upslope, were tied in decades of co-development because the LC&N had built the western terminus of the nation's second railroad, the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Gravity Railway to ship coal out, and opened multiple mines throughout Coaldale and Lansford and the rest of the Panther Creek Valley in the days when railroads were coming into their own.
• In 1854, the Catawissa and Little Schuylkill railroads where built through the township joined soon after by the Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company building a spur connecting Mauch Chunk to Tamanend and rail interchanges at Haucks, Pennsylvania and Quakake.
• Langdon and sentenced to five years in prison; John "Yellow Jack" Donahue, convicted in several conspiracy cases, hanged at Mauch Chunk for his role in the murder of Morgan Powell on June 21, 1877; Neil Dougherty, convicted of the second-degree murder of F.
• Sawyer and Austin still held a chunk and the Wisconsin Central Railroad held a few parcels in the odd-numbered sections, remnants of its payment for building the railroad line up through the wilderness and creating Medford and Stetsonville in the early 1870s.
• Bill Quackenbush, a representative of the Ho Chunk Tribal Nation, suggested that the Vernon County Board, which recently was awarded $1.
• The album was produced after the discovery that the band's manager, Lenny Hart (father of drummer Mickey Hart), had renewed their contract with Warner Brothers Records without their knowledge, and then skipped town with a sizable chunk of the band's wealth.
• Prior to the events of the first book, Artemis's father, Artemis Fowl I, imperils the family fortune by investing "a huge chunk of the Fowl fortune in establishing new shipping lanes" to Russia, following the breakdown of Communism there.
• While the band's lineup has seen many changes, regular contributors included Coolie Ranx (vocals), Matt Malles (bass), Dave Barry (keyboards), Johnnathan McCain (drums), Freddie Reiter (saxophone), Brian Sledge (trumpet), and both Rick "Chunk" Faulkner and Erick "E-Man" Storckman on trombone.
• The hamlet "was used to film a sizeable chunk of the second season" of The Sinner in summer 2018; one featured location is the Cobble Stone Restaurant.

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