Tra từ chunk - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

chunk/tʃʌŋk/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1600-1700; Origin : ⇨ chuck²]
1. a large thick piece of something that does not have an even shape:
　 ▪ ice chunks
chunk of
　 ▪ a chunk of bread

2. a large part or amount of something:
　 ▪ The rent takes a large chunk out of my monthly salary.
chunk of
　 ▪ A huge chunk of the audience got up and left before the end of the show.

3. a chunk of change
American English informal a large amount of money:
　 ▪ Lurie risked a pretty big chunk of change on the race.
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THESAURUS
▪piece an amount of something that has been cut or separated from the main part :
　 ▪ Could I have another piece of cake?
　 ▪ a piece of broken glass
　 ▪ Emma cut the pie into eight pieces.
▪bit a piece. Bit is more informal than piece and is often used about smaller pieces :
　 ▪ The notes were written on bits of paper.
　 ▪ He threw a bit of wood onto the fire.
▪lump a small piece of something solid or firm that does not have a regular shape :
　 ▪ two lumps of sugar
　 ▪ a lump of coal
　 ▪ a lump of clay
▪scrap a small piece of paper, cloth etc that is no longer needed :
　 ▪ I wrote the phone number on a scrap of paper.
　 ▪ The dog was eating scraps of food off the floor.
▪strip a long narrow piece of cloth, paper etc :
　 ▪ a strip of cloth
　 ▪ The leather had been cut into strips.
▪sheet a thin flat piece of something such as paper, glass, or metal :
　 ▪ a blank sheet of paper
　 ▪ a sheet of aluminium
▪slice a thin flat piece of bread, cake, meat etc cut from a larger piece :
　 ▪ a slice of pizza
　 ▪ Cut the tomatoes into thin slices.
▪chunk a piece of something solid that does not have a regular shape – used especially about food, rock, or metal :
　 ▪ The fruit was cut into large chunks.
　 ▪ a chunk of bread
▪hunk a large piece with rough edges, which has been cut or has broken off a bigger piece of food, rock etc :
　 ▪ a big hunk of cheese
　 ▪ hunks of concrete
▪block a piece of something solid, which has straight sides :
　 ▪ concrete blocks
　 ▪ a block of cheese
　 ▪ a block of ice
▪slab a thick flat piece of stone, or of cake, meat etc :
　 ▪ The floor had been made from stone slabs.
　 ▪ a slab of beef
▪cube a piece that has six square sides – used especially about food :
　 ▪ a cube of sugar
　 ▪ ice cubes
▪wedge a piece that has a thick end and a pointed end, and is shaped like a triangle – used especially about food and metal :
　 ▪ a wedge of cheese
▪bar a block of soap, chocolate, candy, or metal, which has straight sides :
　 ▪ a chocolate bar
　 ▪ a bar of soap
　 ▪ gold bars worth more than £26 million
▪rasher British English a slice of bacon :
　 ▪ I usually have two rashers of bacon for breakfast.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chunk of bread (=a piece that you pull off a loaf instead of cutting it)
▪ He tore off a chunk of bread and dipped it in the sauce.
chop sth into pieces/chunks etc
▪ Chop the meat into small cubes.
cut sth into pieces/slices/chunks etc
▪ Next cut the carrots into thin slices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
big
▪ The fact that one person owns a big chunk of shares is price-sensitive information.
▪ And great big chunks of the current Libertarian Party movement contain a horde of former left-wing nuts who are now Libertarian nuts.
▪ Merger mania With fewer companies chasing bigger chunks of business, merger mania has broken out.
▪ The total for all the big chunks is the budget and time needed for the entire project.
▪ Miguel watched as big chunks of building came crashing down just beyond the engines.
▪ Top prices reached about £10,000 for a big chunk, well below the expected sums.
▪ A man wants as big a chunk of land as he can get and control.
good
▪ Strapped for funds, the organizers had gambled a good chunk of their budget on one event.
great
▪ In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
▪ And great big chunks of the current Libertarian Party movement contain a horde of former left-wing nuts who are now Libertarian nuts.
▪ In fact, I seem to remember it was a bloody great chunk of the office building took my head off.
▪ Amelia always memorized great chunks of her favorites, so before long Katch, too, memorized the poem.
▪ To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses, pieces of fallen statuary among them.
▪ There are great chunks of life, after childhood, which drop out of conscious memory.
huge
▪ Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past.
▪ Congress is poised to block-grant to the states huge chunks of federal programs.
▪ Two, three, four huge chunks of Chicken Thallium.
▪ On the downside, the program requires a relatively powerful computer and a huge chunk of disk space to run.
▪ It detonated with enough force to bring down huge chunks of rock from the ceiling.
▪ From that comes Terminator 2, Frankenstein, and a huge chunk of science fiction.
▪ I was used to having huge chunks of time to do stuff and got pretty spoiled in that regard.
large
▪ The once-yellow building was rust brown. Large chunks of plaster were missing.
▪ Yes, I know a large chunk of the child population today is virtually feral, untended and untutored by responsible parents.
▪ Also my plants seem to be disappearing in large chunks - am I underfeeding my fish?
▪ Ensuring that San Francisco grabs a large chunk of global trade.
▪ Conservation areas can be spread over large chunks of historic towns or just one street.
▪ They were worth every penny of the large chunk of the Hochhauser budget they absorbed.
▪ At one corner, a large chunk had been knocked out completely, leaving a nasty, jagged edge.
▪ More importantly, it rewrote large chunks of accepted science.
significant
▪ Paying firefighters overtime to fill in for colleagues out on disability ate into a significant chunk of the overtime budget.
small
▪ Let cool, then pull meat off bones and dice into smaller chunks, if necessary.
▪ If she experiences too many challenges at one step, then break up that step into even smaller chunks.
▪ Most of the recovered pieces were small fiberglass chunks and parts of the wings.
▪ By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
▪ Over medium-high heat, cook the sausage, breaking it up into small chunks as you stir, until lightly browned.
whole
▪ I can still recall whole chunks of those books she made me learn by heart.
▪ A whole chunk of the sound has been omitted, and the vowel is entirely wrong.
VERB
bite
▪ Catherine Destivelle bites a chunk out of Bonington's beard.
▪ I tore the paper off the chocolate and bit off a chunk.
▪ Then, as the helpless youngster screamed in agony, it bit chunks from his arm, breaking it in two places.
break
▪ Lift out the fish, pull out and discard any stray bones. Break the fish into chunks.
▪ Sometimes you may even break the little chunks down into even smaller pieces.
▪ Skid marks crisscross the center, which is strewn with broken glass and tire chunks.
cut
▪ It's all cut in chunks.
▪ Such incentive programs are likely to cut a chunk out of profits.
▪ Serves 6 1 Spread the sponge with jam and cut into chunks.
▪ Of course, and she knelt down to cut off a sizable chunk of venison.
▪ If the patient eats meat, it should be cut into chunks or cubes, not minced.
▪ Remove skin and bones from poached chicken. Cut meat in chunks.
▪ Remove the meat and transfer it to a chopping board. 5. Cut meat into chunks, discarding skin and bones.
own
▪ The fact that one person owns a big chunk of shares is price-sensitive information.
▪ It will also keep watch for dodgy debt-for-equity swaps which leave banks owning chunks of ailing firms.
▪ This is because the Congress is dominated by large landowners and the Presidents themselves owned hefty chunks.
take
▪ It was when she took a chunk out of my shoulder and nearly bit my damn ear off that I got the message.
▪ How long will it take to do this chunk, and when does it need to be finished?
▪ Or, in Sainsbury-ad speak: Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers.
▪ He finished his sandwich, undid a newspaper parcel, and took out a chunk of gray meat.
▪ As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a can of pineapple chunks
▪ A large chunk of plaster had fallen from the ceiling.
▪ Cut the potatoes into chunks and boil them for 15 minutes.
▪ Peanut butter is best spread on chunks of crusty bread.
▪ pineapple chunks
▪ You can move chunks of text directly from one document to another.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sizeable chunk of the costs gone straight away.
▪ By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
▪ For dessert, cover lime sherbet with a blanket of chocolate chips or chocolate sandwich cookie chunks.
▪ He has chunks of metal in one hip and both ankles, and he conceded to them for years.
▪ Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past.
▪ It's all cut in chunks.