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IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʌŋk/Category:English 1-syllable words#CHUNK Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CHUNK
Audio (US): (file)
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Rhymes: -ʌŋk Category:Rhymes:English/ʌŋk#CHUNK Category:Rhymes:English/ʌŋk/1 syllable#CHUNK

Etymology 1

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) +‎ *-k (diminutive suffix)Category:English terms suffixed with -kin#CHUNK (compare hunk from hump, etc.). Also compare Dutch schonk.

Noun

Examples (linguistics)
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A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
Synonyms: bit, hunk, lump; see also Thesaurus:piece

The statue broke into chunks.Category:English terms with usage examples#CHUNK

a chunk of graniteCategory:English terms with usage examples#CHUNK
- 1910 October, Jack London, Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
  Daylight, between mouthfuls, fed chunks of ice into the tin pot, where it thawed into water. […] Daylight cut up generous chunks of bacon and dropped them in the pot of bubbling beans.
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- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 224, about Hertingfordbury:
  Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
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1. A large or substantial portion of something.
  - 2013 February 26, Maryellen Weimer, Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 91:
    I'd be willing to bet a chunk of my retirement that the number hasn't decreased.
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  - 2015 December 6, Eva Hudson, Shoot First, Two Pies Press:
    […] she'd be willing to bet a chunk of change this would be one of the nicest rooms Kate-Lynn Bowers had ever slept in: it was the sort of place you'd think twice about running away from.
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(linguistics Category:en:Linguistics#CHUNK, education Category:en:Education#CHUNK) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic.
Synonyms: bundle, cluster
- 2025, María J. Cabrera-Puche, Learning A New Language For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 219:
  In fact, some linguists suggest that 45 percent to 60 percent of what you produce in your L1 is functional chunks of language. These chunks of language also give you some sense of fluency.
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(computing Category:en:Computing#CHUNK) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- 1994, Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide:
  The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.
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- 2015, Jean-Marc Pierson, Large-scale Distributed Systems and Energy Efficiency: A Holistic View, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 271:
  Each peer downloads the desired file, in chunks, from a multitude of other peers. While downloading missing chunks, peers upload to other peers in the same torrent the chunks they have already obtained.
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(comedy Category:en:Comedy#CHUNK) A segment of a comedian's performance.
- 1994, Gene Perret, Successful Stand-up Comedy: Advice from a Comedy Writer, page 80:
  You begin gathering two hours of dependable comedy by developing that first three-minute chunk. When you're satisfied with it, you create another three minutes of laughs, then another three minutes.
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- 2012, Jay Sankey, Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy, page 168:
  If you're gigging outdoors for the Society of Catholic Gardeners, don't close your set with your "Papa Beelzebub" chunk (no matter how life affirming you think it is!).
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