What's the difference between chunk and junk?

Chunk


Definition:

  • (n.) A short, thick piece of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
  • (2) Half a million homes were sold in Scotland, we lost a huge, huge chunk of stock, and as house prices began to escalate so any asset to the community has gone.
  • (3) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
  • (4) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
  • (5) After it went public, Google bought key chunks of its business, including YouTube and ad firm DoubleClick.
  • (6) Saakashvili, a studio guest on CNN, said that it would be wrong to underestimate Ukraine’s military strength, adding that its officer corps was of a high calibre and that a “considerable chunk” of Russian officers were ethnically Ukrainian.
  • (7) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.
  • (8) "That's 30 years in all, a large chunk of any scientist's professional life," says McKay.
  • (9) The Abu Dhabi royal family is tomorrow expected to lodge the highest bid for a chunk of prime Knightsbridge property.
  • (10) This article discusses two forms of case presentations--"traditional" and "chunked."
  • (11) 3.15am BST Heat 49-54 Spurs, :29 remaining, second quarter Oh hey, we actually have a solid chunk of time where there's no scoring.
  • (12) Google Now can work only if the company behind it manages to bring vast chunks of our existence – from communication to travel to reading – under its corporate umbrella.
  • (13) The whole point is that if wages rise, spending on tax credits – and other in-work benefits, like a significant chunk of housing benefit expenditure – will automatically fall.
  • (14) TalkSport showed there was life in AM yet after it took a chunk of the BBC's live Premier League rights and soared to a record audience.
  • (15) He declined to say how much he paid for the 1,500-pound(680-kilogram) chunk of art, saying only: “Less than I will sell it for.” Bandaged Heart, an image of a heart-shaped balloon covered in Band-Aids, has a pre-sale estimate of $400,000 to $600,000.
  • (16) However, 6Music's average weekday audience, divided into half-hour chunks by official ratings body Rajar, peaks at 40,000 in the second half-hour of Lamb's morning show between 10.30am and 11am.
  • (17) Male nude mice were inoculated with either SKI or PGER by passage of tumor chunks (3 mm2) to the scapular region.
  • (18) The early evening chunk of Comic Relief 2009 - Funny for Money pulled in a 43% share of the overall audience over the three hours, peaking at 12.7 million in the quarter hour from 9pm, according to the unofficial overnights.
  • (19) In Ntinda, angry youths shouted and hurled stones and chunks of concrete at passing cars.
  • (20) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.

Junk


Definition:

  • (n.) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.
  • (n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
  • (n.) Old iron, or other metal, glass, paper, etc., bought and sold by junk dealers.
  • (n.) Hard salted beef supplied to ships.
  • (n.) A large vessel, without keel or prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We propose that "junk" DNA in eucaryotes functions to maintain total DNA at an optimum concentration.
  • (2) People are eating a lot of junk food and rejecting traditional food,” he told the BBC .
  • (3) Russia’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status for the first time in a decade due to the collapsing oil price, the tumbling value of the rouble and sanctions imposed because of its intervention in Ukraine.
  • (4) ITV's investment in children's programming has also been damaged by the ban on advertising junk food.
  • (5) At half-time time Pardew acted, junking his entire left side, bringing on Martin Kelly and Bakary Sako.
  • (6) • The following correction was published on 5 February 2012: "Downgrades, debt and junk: key questions about the eurozone crisis answered" (Business), said: "The [Eurozone financial stability facility] fund has already committed large sums to Greece, Ireland and Portugal and will need to raise more money should Italy and Spain need the same kind of help."
  • (7) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
  • (8) Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, an international team of researchers said on Wednesday.
  • (9) These include a mechanism to assess which shows have an "above average" appeal to under-16s and therefore cannot run any junk food ads.
  • (10) Russia is spending 2.3tn roubles (£22bn) to shore up its economy as sanctions bite and after its debt was downgraded to junk.
  • (11) Conservatives blame the problems of sexual violence on western values, immodest dress or even on the over-consumption of junk food.
  • (12) And who is leading the charge to junk our membership of the single market?
  • (13) For each trial of the DNMS task, two stimuli were randomly selected from a pool of 250 small "junk" objects; one member of the pair was designated as the sample.
  • (14) The Real Junk Food Project , a charity which operates a chain of “pay as you feel” cafés using surplus food, now has two Sharehouse food stores connected to its operations in Leeds and Sheffield.
  • (15) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
  • (16) Spain defied renewed pressure to accept an international bailout on Thursday, a stance that could last for several more weeks or even months despite the humiliation of having its credit rating cut to near junk status.
  • (17) Stock markets around the world plunged today after Standard & Poor's cut Greece's credit rating to junk status and downgraded its view of Portugal in the clearest evidence yet that the European sovereign debt crisis is spreading.
  • (18) Any evidence of a fresh split among European policymakers will increase anxiety in the financial markets, which were rattled on Wednesday by news that ratings agency Moody's had downgraded Portugal's debt to junk status.
  • (19) Dr Aseem Malhotra, an NHS cardiologist who campaigns against junk food, said the study "adds further fuel to the fire that sugar really is the 'silent killer' and is independent of body weight".
  • (20) The attack happened in a normal part of Delhi, at 9pm and no one can possibly allege that she was behaving in a way that was 'not in keeping with Indian traditions' and all that junk," Gupta said.