different between pieces vs chunk
pieces
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pi?s?z/
Noun
pieces
- plural of piece
Verb
pieces
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of piece
Anagrams
- specie
pieces From the web:
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- what pieces of chicken are white meat
- what pieces can move backwards in chess
- what pieces can the king take in chess
- what pieces can jump in chess
- what pieces can take a queen in chess
- what pieces can a pawn capture
- what pieces can checkmate a king
chunk
English
Etymology
Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) +? *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t????k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
chunk (plural chunks)
- A part of something that has been separated.
- The statue broke into chunks.
- A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
- a chunk of granite
- (linguistics, education) 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"
- (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- 1994, Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide
- The first DWORD of a chunk data in the RIFF chunk is a four character code value identifying the form type of the file.
- 1994, Paul J Perry, Multimedia developer's guide
- (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
Translations
See also
- piece
- bit
- lump
- chuck
- hunk
Further reading
- chunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- chunk in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
chunk (third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)
- (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
- (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
- (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
Derived terms
- dechunk
- microchunk
- rechunk
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