noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chunk of bread (= a piece that you pull off a loaf instead of cutting it )
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He tore off a chunk of bread and dipped it in the sauce.
chop sth into pieces/chunks etc
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Chop the meat into small cubes.
cut sth into pieces/slices/chunks etc
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Next cut the carrots into thin slices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The fact that one person owns a big chunk of shares is price-sensitive information.
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And great big chunks of the current Libertarian Party movement contain a horde of former left-wing nuts who are now Libertarian nuts.
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Merger mania With fewer companies chasing bigger chunks of business, merger mania has broken out.
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The total for all the big chunks is the budget and time needed for the entire project.
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Miguel watched as big chunks of building came crashing down just beyond the engines.
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Top prices reached about £10,000 for a big chunk , well below the expected sums.
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A man wants as big a chunk of land as he can get and control.
good
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Strapped for funds, the organizers had gambled a good chunk of their budget on one event.
great
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In a flash I realised that my propeller was tearing great chunks out of his cockpit and he was quite literally trapped.
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And great big chunks of the current Libertarian Party movement contain a horde of former left-wing nuts who are now Libertarian nuts.
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In fact, I seem to remember it was a bloody great chunk of the office building took my head off.
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Amelia always memorized great chunks of her favorites, so before long Katch, too, memorized the poem.
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To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses, pieces of fallen statuary among them.
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There are great chunks of life, after childhood, which drop out of conscious memory.
huge
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Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past.
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Congress is poised to block-grant to the states huge chunks of federal programs.
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Two, three, four huge chunks of Chicken Thallium.
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On the downside, the program requires a relatively powerful computer and a huge chunk of disk space to run.
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It detonated with enough force to bring down huge chunks of rock from the ceiling.
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From that comes Terminator 2, Frankenstein, and a huge chunk of science fiction.
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I was used to having huge chunks of time to do stuff and got pretty spoiled in that regard.
large
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The once-yellow building was rust brown. Large chunks of plaster were missing.
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Yes, I know a large chunk of the child population today is virtually feral, untended and untutored by responsible parents.
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Also my plants seem to be disappearing in large chunks - am I underfeeding my fish?
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Ensuring that San Francisco grabs a large chunk of global trade.
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Conservation areas can be spread over large chunks of historic towns or just one street.
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They were worth every penny of the large chunk of the Hochhauser budget they absorbed.
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At one corner, a large chunk had been knocked out completely, leaving a nasty, jagged edge.
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More importantly, it rewrote large chunks of accepted science.
significant
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Paying firefighters overtime to fill in for colleagues out on disability ate into a significant chunk of the overtime budget.
small
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Let cool, then pull meat off bones and dice into smaller chunks , if necessary.
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If she experiences too many challenges at one step, then break up that step into even smaller chunks .
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Most of the recovered pieces were small fiberglass chunks and parts of the wings.
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By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks .
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Over medium-high heat, cook the sausage, breaking it up into small chunks as you stir, until lightly browned.
whole
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I can still recall whole chunks of those books she made me learn by heart.
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A whole chunk of the sound has been omitted, and the vowel is entirely wrong.
■ VERB
bite
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Catherine Destivelle bites a chunk out of Bonington's beard.
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I tore the paper off the chocolate and bit off a chunk .
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Then, as the helpless youngster screamed in agony, it bit chunks from his arm, breaking it in two places.
break
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Lift out the fish, pull out and discard any stray bones. Break the fish into chunks .
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Sometimes you may even break the little chunks down into even smaller pieces.
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Skid marks crisscross the center, which is strewn with broken glass and tire chunks .
cut
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It's all cut in chunks .
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Such incentive programs are likely to cut a chunk out of profits.
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Serves 6 1 Spread the sponge with jam and cut into chunks .
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Of course, and she knelt down to cut off a sizable chunk of venison.
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If the patient eats meat, it should be cut into chunks or cubes, not minced.
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Remove skin and bones from poached chicken. Cut meat in chunks .
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Remove the meat and transfer it to a chopping board. 5. Cut meat into chunks , discarding skin and bones.
own
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The fact that one person owns a big chunk of shares is price-sensitive information.
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It will also keep watch for dodgy debt-for-equity swaps which leave banks owning chunks of ailing firms.
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This is because the Congress is dominated by large landowners and the Presidents themselves owned hefty chunks .
take
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It was when she took a chunk out of my shoulder and nearly bit my damn ear off that I got the message.
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How long will it take to do this chunk , and when does it need to be finished?
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Or, in Sainsbury-ad speak: Take one chunk of human and peel off the outer layers.
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He finished his sandwich, undid a newspaper parcel, and took out a chunk of gray meat.
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As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a can of pineapple chunks
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A large chunk of plaster had fallen from the ceiling.
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Cut the potatoes into chunks and boil them for 15 minutes.
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Peanut butter is best spread on chunks of crusty bread.
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pineapple chunks
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You can move chunks of text directly from one document to another.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sizeable chunk of the costs gone straight away.
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By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
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For dessert, cover lime sherbet with a blanket of chocolate chips or chocolate sandwich cookie chunks.
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He has chunks of metal in one hip and both ankles, and he conceded to them for years.
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Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past.
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It's all cut in chunks.