Synonyms of the word chunk


CHUNKACCUMULATE - AGGLOMERATION - AMASS - BALL - CLOD - CLUMP - COLLECT - COLLOCATE - COMPILE - GLOB - GROUP - HOARD - LUMP

chunk

  • n. A part of something that has been separated.
  • n. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
  • n. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media);…
  • n. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
  • v. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
  • v. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual chunks of manageable size.
  • v. (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.

accumulate

  • v. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
  • v. (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  • adj. (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

agglomeration

  • n. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
  • n. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
  • n. (geography) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked…
  • n. (geology) a mass of large volcanic fragments bonded under heat.

amass

  • v. (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
  • v. (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
  • n. (obsolete) A mass; a heap.

ball

  • n. A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
  • n. (sports) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
  • n. (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  • n. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used…
  • n. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
  • v. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
  • v. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather…
  • v. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  • v. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
  • interj. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This…
  • n. A formal dance.
  • n. (informal) A very enjoyable time.

clod

  • n. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  • n. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  • n. A stupid person; a dolt.
  • n. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
  • v. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
  • v. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
  • v. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

clump

  • n. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
  • n. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
  • n. A dull thud.
  • n. The compressed clay of coal strata.
  • n. A small group of trees or plants.
  • v. (transitive) To form clusters or lumps.
  • v. (transitive) To gather into thick groups.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.

collect

  • v. (transitive) To gather together; amass.
  • v. (transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.
  • v. (transitive) To accumulate a number of similar or related (objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.).
  • v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
  • v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
  • v. (intransitive) To collect objects as a hobby.
  • v. (transitive) To infer; to conclude.
  • adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
  • adv. With payment due from the recipient.
  • n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook,…

collocate

  • v. (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation;…
  • v. To arrange or occur side by side.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To set or place; to station.
  • n. (linguistics) A component word of a collocation.
  • adj. (obsolete) Set; placed.

compile

  • v. (transitive) To put together; to assemble; to make by gathering things from various sources.
  • v. (obsolete) To construct, build.
  • v. (transitive, programming) To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
  • v. (intransitive, programming) To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To contain or comprise.
  • v. (obsolete) To write; to compose.
  • n. (programming) An act of compiling code.

glob

  • n. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
  • n. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
  • n. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular…
  • v. To stick in globs or lumps.
  • v. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

group

  • n. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
  • n. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element,…
  • n. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
  • n. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
  • n. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
  • n. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
  • n. (chemistry) A functional group.
  • n. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
  • n. (military) An air force formation.
  • n. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
  • n. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution…
  • n. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
  • n. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely…
  • n. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing…
  • v. (transitive) To put together to form a group.
  • v. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

hoard

  • n. A hidden supply or fund.
  • n. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
  • n. Misspelling of horde.
  • v. To amass, usually for one's personal collection.

lump

  • n. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
  • n. A group, set, or unit.
  • n. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
  • n. A dull or lazy person.
  • n. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
  • n. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  • v. To treat as a single unit; to group together.

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