chunk
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Danh từ
noun- 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
Đồng nghĩa: bit, hunk, lump, bit, chip, chunk, clip, crumb, crumbling, cutting, flake, fleak, fragment, hunk, lump, mammock, ort, piece, piecemeal, portion, scrap, scraplet, slice, snead, snippet, steck
- 2.
(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
Đồng nghĩa: bundle, cluster
- 3.
(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- 4.
(comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
- 5.
(alt of, archaic)Archaic form of chank (“type of spiral shell”).
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To break into large pieces or chunks.
- 2.
(transitive)To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- 3.
(Southern US, slang, transitive)(transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
Đồng nghĩa: chuck, fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, fling, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing
- 4.
(Appalachia, intransitive)To add wood to a fire or to stoke it.
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(transitive)(transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.
He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.
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(transitive)To remove a chunk from.
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Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (chunk; block) -kin (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare schonk.