Synonym: bulk, lump, mass, wad. Similar words: trunk, church, touch up, hunt, hung up, hunter, hunting, hundred. Meaning: [tʃʌnk] n. 1. a compact mass 2. a substantial amount. v. 1. put together indiscriminately 2. group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side.
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(121) Johnny-B's paternal grandfather had staked out a stout chunk of the Olympic Peninsula and the timberlands around Lake Chelan to become one of the earliest lumber barons of the Pacific Northwest.
(122) Once a file is in the load file set, you can start taking chunks of the files to populate the load chunk queue according to the priorities that the chunk prioritizer dictates.
(123) Practice: 1. Choose fresh and squashy Chinese flowering quince, flay, go nucleus, cut chunk account, reserve.
(124) This is not only a foreword to a book but also an afterword to a large chunk of my life.
(125) The paper mainly discusses the retrieval technique with natural language interface. It contains some key techniques, such as extraction of concept, choice of chunk and combination of concept.
(126) Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade.
(127) Current thinking is that some 4 billion years ago, a Mars-sized object smashed into the proto-Earth, knocking off a chunk of planet that eventually formed into the moon.
(128) With the purchase, Intel is spending a huge chunk of the $12.2 billion in cash and short-term investments it had on hand as of last quarter.
(129) The Rockets already have suggested he take another chunk of time off.
(130) The bear first hit the headlines last April, when fishermen spotted it drifting into the Gulf of Riga on a floating chunk of ice. The animal disappeared in fog and was feared drowned.
(131) It might turn out that even though your text file is stateful, there is an easy way to read it in chunks (where each chunk is a single type of input value).
(132) Glue to 3 D stack, data block, or data chunk to add a range label.
(133) Finally, the paper concludes that although it is far from being perfect, the lexical chunk instruction indeed offers us a new perspective to SLT.
(134) On magnetic tape, a physical chunk of information separated from other blocks by an interblock gap of blank space.
(135) With a short-term loan, these principal repayments are a big chunk of each monthly payment. Sentencedict.com
(136) A few weeks earlier, Talbot said, a concrete hauler had hit the freeway median, taking out a big chunk of it.
(137) For starters, one crucial source of information is what's known as a zero-age sample: a chunk of lava fresh from the lake.
(138) One of these was loadstone which is basically a chunk of naturally occurring iron which has somehow in the course of the earth's long history obtained a magnetic orientation.
(139) Third, utilizing chunk theory of short-term memory and configuration theory of Chinese characters the disassimilation rules of Chinese characters are worked out.
(140) The last time such a large ice island formed was in 1962 when the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved an island. Smaller pieces of that chunk became lodged between real islands inside Nares Strait.
(141) That is because fund managers have been waiving a significant chunk of their fees in order to maintain positive returns.
(142) Smaller amounts of the chemical showed up in a plastic container of Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and Meatballs, canned Enfamil infant formula, and Chicken of the Sea Chunk Light Tuna in Water.
(143) Every quarter the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) scrutinise Greece before releasing the next chunk of money.
(144) In that context, your mind isn't trying to track all of the data mentioned above because each tab is its own stand-alone chunk of data, and, at most, you're tracking the relationship between each tab.
(145) I retrieved a small piece from the ruins as a memento – an undistinguished chunk of cast concrete decoration.
(146) The committees get a chunk of all five Olympic revenue streams.
(147) Want to be circled again later, had checked others one big chunk.
(148) The magic trick here that makes it work is a chunk of data called a Procedure Linkage Table (PLT), a table in the program that lists every function that a program calls.
(149) Memory deallocation may be as simple as adding that chunk to the front of the free list, a O(1) operation.
(150) Barcelona's star-studded squad includes the irrepressible Lionel Messi and a sizeable chunk of the all-conquering Spanish national side.