(n.) A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an event prompted by the rule that what goes up must come down, the defunct satellite will plummet through the atmosphere, burn and break apart, and scatter hunks of steel, aluminium and titanium over a distance of hundreds of miles.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho: Manchester United ‘the perfect club’ for Paul Pogba – video Pogba, in fairness, is more than just a glamour signing who shows that United, and the Premier League, are wrestling some pulling power back from European rivals, notably Spain’s swoonsome hunks.
(3) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.
(4) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
(5) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(6) ululates one of the series' many perturbed adolescent hunks.
(7) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
(8) Troubled by his sexuality, Philip took hunks of time out from Harvard and started travelling to Europe as a means of escape.
(9) And so a hunk of Cheddar becomes superior to Nevermind : a universal medium of communication; or at least, for foodists, a universal solvent of the intellect.
(10) I think that 'hunk' of Aberdeen Angus is going to be in quite a foul mood now that his prediction of a Russia v Germany final is wheezing and coughing up bloody phlegm," suggests Richard Whittall.
(11) Photograph: AP If Han’s not still flying the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, I want my money back already.
(12) 5) The Rock may be a great big burning hunk of MAN, but he's not Oscar Wilde Or rather, whoever wrote his lame-o opening speech wasn't.
(13) This hunk of steel and paint is worth much more than the price tag.” The cyclist, who also buys and sells bikes as a hobby, first started returning snatched bikes to their owners in spring 2015 when he stumbled on a stolen bicycle on Craigslist.
(14) The result was a hunk of plastic with the circumference of a beer mat, heated to 130C, to which the labels were attached, while 50 tonnes of hydraulic pressure squashed and spread it into a disc.
(15) By the time we noticed our peeling skin, another hunk of our privacy is long gone."
(16) Only molgG2a antibodies were equally potent with rtNK and huNK.
(17) And sometimes you just want cows falling apart and bewildered hunks in utility slacks shouting about how we'd best stick together otherwise "We'll all be going… TO HELL!"
(18) I suspect the paintings Haslam is thinking of are really 17th-century Dutch still-life pictures with their hearty north European hunks of high- fat cheese, frothing ale glasses and bulging pies.
(19) Little seems to have changed at Simpson's in the Strand since the days when Alfred Hitchcock dined here: the wood panelling, the chandeliers, the white-robed chefs carving hunks of meat on silver trolleys.
(20) There are swirls of purees and jus but at its centre is a hunk of animal; one of the most bloody and intensely earthy of animals.
Lump
Definition:
(n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
(n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
(n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
(v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
(v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
(v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although distributed models yielded improved fits of the data, the distributed and lumped models produced similar estimates of membrane parameters.
(2) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) In agreement with the predictions based on a simple lumped-parameters model, we found that Z reached very low values, especially at the frequencies where H had a resonance peak.
(5) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
(6) Examination of the patient revealed 2 lumps detected in the right hemi-scrotum which felt like small testes and did not permit transillumination.
(7) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
(8) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
(9) Combination with IP degrees increases polyhead formation when head formation is not blocked at a more defective stage but results in a qualitative shift to lump formation in association with gene 22 mutants.
(10) "It really gets my goat when commentators (literally all British ones especially Townsend) complain that Spain don't play with a striker as they 'lack a focal point' or 'don't have any direction', presumably because these commentators would lump it up to the 'big man'.
(11) The degree of observer variation in recording 11 186 items of clinical data from 242 woman who presented complaining of a lump in the breast to a group of 10 surgeons was studied.
(12) It is therefore felt that (1) a cautious attitude is necessary when commenting on FNAC samples until more specific criteria are forthcoming for the diagnosis of this neoplasm; and (2) if cellular atypias are seen in FNAC samples, these should be reported with a recommendation for removal of the breast lump and a detailed tissue examination.
(13) Our analysis of 1051 breast biopsies in West Indian women under the age of 30 y revealed that 99% of the breast lumps were benign.
(14) Kadyrov also gave the happy couple an unusual wedding present – "a five kilo lump of gold".
(15) A female patient presented with a lump in the right parotedeal region.
(16) GCPP includes standardization of both experimental factors (lumped constant, arterialization, purity of tracer, regions of interest, relative rates) and clinical factors (state of the subject, wakefulness, anxiety, gender, course of the disease) in PET performance.
(17) There are clearly lots of nice, benign, kind nuns who'd be a bit miffed to be lumped in with all the others."
(18) The rest of ICD-10, either on the three- or on the four-digit level, has to be grouped into combinations of classes (lumping) to allow compatible conversion to the remaining rubrics of ICPC.
(19) His BBC television career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor's face .
(20) A 39-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of large breast lump (11.5 X 8.0 cm) and an abnormal nipple discharge.