chunks

/tʃʌŋks/

noun

  1. 1

    A part of something that has been separated.

    “The statue broke into chunks.”
  2. 2

    A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

    “a chunk of granite”
  3. 3

    A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.

    “examples of chunks would include "in accordance with", "the results of", and "so far"”
  4. 4

    A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.

  5. 5

    A segment of a comedian's performance

verb

  1. 1

    To break into large pieces or chunks.

  2. 2

    To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.

  3. 3

    To throw.

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