ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk
(noun) a compact mass; “a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder”
chunk
(noun) a substantial amount; “we won a chunk of money”
collocate, lump, chunk
(verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
lump, chunk
(verb) put together indiscriminately; “lump together all the applicants”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chunk (plural chunks)
A part of something that has been separated.
A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
(linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
(computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
(comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance
chunk (third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)
(transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
(transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
(transitive, slang, chiefly, Southern US) To throw.
Source: Wiktionary
Chunk, n. Etym: [Cf. Chump.]
Definition: A short, thick piece of anything. [Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
