chunk

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

chunk [chunk chunks chunked chunking] BrE [tʃʌŋk] NAmE [tʃʌŋk] noun
1. a thick solid piece that has been cut or broken off sth
•a chunk of cheese/masonry
2. (informal)a fairly large amount of sth
•I've already written a fair chunk of the article.
3. (linguistics)a phrase or group of words which can be learnt as a unit by sb who is learning a language. Examples of chunks are ‘Can I have the bill, please?’ and ‘Pleased to meet you’.
see blow chunks at ↑blow _v.

Word Origin:
late 17th cent.: apparently an alteration of the noun ↑chuck senses 1 and 3.

Example Bank:
•He cut the food up into bite-size chunks.
•I bought the cheese in one big chunk.
•The listening texts consist of short, bite-sized chunks which are accessible to beginners.
•The texts consist of short, bite-sized chunks.
•This one project has taken a substantial chunk of our budget.
•a huge chunk of meat/rock/text
•a tin of pineapple chunks
•Chunks of masonry lay in the grass around the ruined building.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, collocate