From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
Variant of [en]; or alternatively a diminutive of [en] [en] (compare [en] from
[en], etc.). [wikipedia]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A part of something that has been separate d.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
5. [en] A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic ; a bundle or cluster .
6. [en] A discrete segment of a file , stream , etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media ); a block .
7. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1994 | author=Paul J Perry | title=Multimedia developer's guide
|passage=The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF CHUNK is a four character
code value identifying the form type of the file.}}
1. [en] A segment of a comedian's performance .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1994 | author=Gene Perret | title=Successful Stand-up Comedy: Advice from a Comedy Writer | page=80
|passage=You begin gathering two hours of dependable comedy by developing that
first three-minute CHUNK. When you're satisfied with it, you create another
three minutes of laughs, then another three minutes.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2012 | author=Jay Sankey | title=Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy | page=168
|passage=If you're gigging outdoors for the Society of Catholic Gardeners,
don't close your set with your "Papa Beelzebub" CHUNK (no matter how life
affirming you think it is!).}}
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[a part of something]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [large]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[a representative of substance]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Irish: [ga] [of rock]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
[trans-bottom]
[a discrete segment of stream]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
[trans-bottom]
***** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To break into large pieces or chunks.
2. [en] To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
3. * [en]
4. [en] To throw .
5. [en] Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent .
***** Derived terms
[en]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] .