CHUNK: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CHUNK?

Need another word that means the same as “chunk”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “chunk” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Chunk” are: ball, clod, clump, glob, lump, hunk, wedge, block, slab, square, nugget, nub, brick, cube, bar, cake, loaf, collocate

Chunk as a Noun

Definitions of "Chunk" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “chunk” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A compact mass.
• A thick, solid piece of something.
• A section of information or data.
• A significant amount of something.
• A substantial amount.

Synonyms of "Chunk" as a noun (17 Words)

ball	In baseball a pitch delivered outside the strike zone which the batter does not attempt to hit. The mayor threw out the first ball.
bar	Barristers collectively. The boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river.
block	An act of blocking someone or something. I knew his name perfectly well but I had a temporary block.
brick	Bricks collectively as a building material. While updating the firmware the USB cable got disconnected and the phone is now a brick.
cake	An item of savoury food formed into a flat round shape, and typically baked or fried. You have not received a fair slice of the education cake.
clod	An awkward stupid person. You re an insensitive clod and I hope you fall and break your neck.
clump	A grouping of a number of similar things. A clump of ferns.
cube	A block in the approximate shape of a cube. A sugar cube.
glob	A lump of a semi-liquid substance. Thick globs of mozzarella cheese.
hunk	A large, strong, sexually attractive man. A Hollywood hunk.
loaf	A quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape. Meat loaf.
lump	An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement. There was a lump of ice floating in the milk.
nub	The crux or central point of a matter. The nub of the problem lies elsewhere.
nugget	A valuable idea or fact. Nuggets of meat.
slab	Block consisting of a thick piece of something. A slab of bread and cheese.
square	A square meal. A circle s area is proportional to the square of its radius.
wedge	A heel on a wedge shoe. Davies hit a wedge to within a yard of the hole.

Usage Examples of "Chunk" as a noun

• We won a chunk of money.
• Huge chunks of masonry littered the street.
• She invested a chunk of her inheritance in the stock market.

Chunk as a Verb

Definitions of "Chunk" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “chunk” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Divide (data) into separate sections.
• Divide (something) into chunks.
• Throw (something.
• Group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side.
• (in psychology or linguistic analysis) group together (connected items or words) so that they can be stored or processed as single concepts.
• Put together indiscriminately.

Synonyms of "Chunk" as a verb (2 Words)

collocate	Have a strong tendency to occur side by side. The words new and world collocate.
lump	Put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars. Nigel didn t like being lumped in with prisoners.

Usage Examples of "Chunk" as a verb

• The chunking of information.
• Pupils are able to chunk phrases or propositions into units.
• Chunk a piece of wood on the fire, will you?
• To prepare hypertext, information is chunked into small, manageable units.
• Chunk four pounds of pears.

Associations of "Chunk" (30 Words)

baste	Pour fat or juices over (meat) during cooking in order to keep it moist. Baste a hem.
beef	A criminal charge. There was the smell of roast beef.
blubber	The fat of sea mammals, especially whales and seals. My six pack is quickly being covered in blubber.
caribou	Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America.
carnivore	Any animal that feeds on flesh. Terrestrial carnivores have four or five clawed digits on each limb.
carrion	The dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food. A crow wheeled over the hills in search of carrion.
clump	Form a clump or clumps. The particles tend to clump together.
ewe	A female sheep.
flesh	The flesh of an animal regarded as food. I have fleshed my bloodhound.
ham	The back of the thigh or the thighs and buttocks. A honey baked ham.
hamburger	Beef that has been ground.
juicy	Suggestive of sexual impropriety. A juicy scandal.
kernel	The most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management, and security. The kernel of a walnut.
lamb	Give birth to a lamb. He accepted her decision like a lamb.
lump	An awkward stupid person. Hong Kong and Bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures.
mass	Assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass. Both countries began massing troops in the region.
meat	The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food. Pieces of meat.
monolithic	(of a solid-state circuit) composed of active and passive components formed in a single chip. A monolithic society.
mutton	Meat from a mature domestic sheep. A leg of mutton.
porcine	Resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy. His flushed porcine features.
pork	Gorge oneself with food. Pork chops.
pulp	Reduce to pulp. He pounded it to a pulp.
putrescent	Becoming putrid. A trail lined by putrescent carcasses.
reindeer	A deer of the tundra and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America both sexes of which have large branching antlers Most Eurasian reindeer are domesticated and used for drawing sledges and as a source of milk flesh and hide.
roast	The process of roasting something especially coffee or the result of this. Carving the Sunday roast.
steak	A thick slice of steak or other high quality meat or fish. Half a pound of fillet steak.
succulent	A succulent plant. A book on cacti and succulents.
uncooked	Not cooked. A lump of uncooked dough.
veal	Meat from a calf. Veal and ham pie.
venison	Meat from a deer used as food. Venison steaks.