Chunk

/t͡ʃʌŋk/

noun

  1. A part of something that has been separated.

    The statue broke into chunks.

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

    a chunk of granite

  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"

verb

  1. To break into large pieces or chunks.

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

  3. To throw.

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